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Ying Ying Yang finds a new life and career in Australia as a Cisco Networking Academy Instructor

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Ying Ying Yang finds a new life and career in Australia as a Cisco Networking Academy Instructor

Ying Ying Yang Ying Ying Yang migrated to Australia from China with qualifications as an electrical engineer, and confronted a challenge that many new migrants do: a language barrier. “I studied Russian because my hometown was next to Russia,” she says. “I studied Russian until I finished university!” She decided studying a course in English would help and enrolled in an IT Certificate course at TAFE New South Wales. “I remember when I started in…

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Increasing cybersecurity awareness and skills training across India

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Increasing cybersecurity awareness and skills training across India

The Social Impact Partner Spotlight series highlights various Cisco non-profit organization partners that are helping transform the lives of individuals and communities. This blog features Cisco’s partnership with the NIIT Foundation, highlighting its impactful work around cybersecurity education and awareness. India has the world’s second-largest internet user base. While digitization is rapidly increasing, the vulnerability towards cyber threats is also rising. A major threat to security is around personal information, organizational data, and national security….

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Are you AI-Ready? Cisco Networking Academy is closing the gender gap in AI

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Are you AI-Ready? Cisco Networking Academy is closing the gender gap in AI

LinkedIn workforce data shows that women are still significantly underrepresented in the Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM). Despite making up almost half (49.3%) of total employment across non-STEM occupations, women represent just 29.2% of all STEM workers. As technology moves quickly, that underrepresentation shapes the technology of tomorrow as well as amplifies existing gender bias in technology. As Cisco’s corporate purpose is to power an inclusive future for all, Cisco Networking Academy chooses to take…

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Are you AI-Ready? Cisco Networking Academy is closing the gender gap in AI

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Are you AI-Ready? Cisco Networking Academy is closing the gender gap in AI

LinkedIn workforce data shows that women are still significantly underrepresented in the Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM). Despite making up almost half (49.3%) of total employment across non-STEM occupations, women represent just 29.2% of all STEM workers. As technology moves quickly, that underrepresentation shapes the technology of tomorrow as well as amplifies existing gender bias in technology. As Cisco’s corporate purpose is to power an inclusive future for all, Cisco Networking Academy chooses to take…

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Calling All Past Alumni to Test their Strength and Compete

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Calling All Past Alumni to Test their Strength and Compete

Join the competition of a lifetime on May 2, 2024. Where alumni who had thespark to train hard can compete on the grandest stage of all: the Cisco-Athlon. Hard work and the desire to push oneself to new limits define the greatest decathletes in the world—and our Networking Academy alums. Choosing to jump higher, throw farther, and run faster to attain a career in the digital field. It is with this backdrop that we excitedly…

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Tech Tools for the Future: Zebras, AI, and Girls in ICT Day

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Tech Tools for the Future: Zebras, AI, and Girls in ICT Day

I’m excited to announce that Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf will be joining our special Women Rock-IT broadcast to support International Girls in ICT Day, featuring women who have turned their passion for technology into rewarding and successful careers. Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is the Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute  and a Professor of Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State University (OSU). As a computational…

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Cisco Launches CCST IT Support Certification: Your Pathway to a Career in IT

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Cisco Launches CCST IT Support Certification: Your Pathway to a Career in IT

Have you ever considered pursuing a career in information technology (IT) or IT support but found yourself unsure of where to start? I know how you feel; I started my career at Cisco in the Technical Assistance Center (TAC), talking directly with customers as a TAC engineer. I learned I needed the skills to communicate action plans, think critically, and troubleshoot to solve problems. This was in addition to developing networking skills (including some general…

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Are you AI-Ready? Cisco Networking Academy is closing the gender gap in AI

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Are you AI-Ready? Cisco Networking Academy is closing the gender gap in AI

LinkedIn workforce data shows that women are still significantly underrepresented in the Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM). Despite making up almost half (49.3%) of total employment across non-STEM occupations, women represent just 29.2% of all STEM workers. As technology moves quickly, that underrepresentation shapes the technology of tomorrow as well as amplifies existing gender bias in technology. As Cisco’s corporate purpose is to power an inclusive future for all, Cisco Networking Academy chooses to take…

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From meteorology to information technology, Cisco Insider Tim Harmon has a fascinating story to share.

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From meteorology to information technology, Cisco Insider Tim Harmon has a fascinating story to share.

Cisco’s advocacy community, Cisco Insider, brings our customers together and provides a way for them to make powerful connections, expand their professional and personal networks, and learn from top experts in their field. One of our goals is to deepen our relationships with our customers. Our Q&A series allows us to shine a spotlight on some of our most passionate advocates as we learn about their backgrounds. Today, we have one of the friendliest faces…

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From childhood curiosity to Cisco’s FIFA Women’s World Cup all-female Dream Team

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From childhood curiosity to Cisco’s FIFA Women’s World Cup all-female Dream Team

This blog is by Noor Zafar, a Cybersecurity Cadet Risk Advisory Analyst at Deloitte in Australia and a former member of Cisco’s FIFA Women’s World Cup all-female Dream Team. We’re excited to have Noor join us as we go backstage with the Cisco Dream Team on our next Women Rock-IT event on February 29, 2024.  Noor holds a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from the University of Wollongong (UOW) and a Diploma of Mechanical Engineering from…

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