It appears that at least some of this summers' Cisco partner network career fairs were total disasters.
Horror stories:
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At one fair, candidate attendance was so bad (thus boredom for Cisco and its hiring partners), that Cisco itself rolled out the bar halfway thru the fair with 2 hours left until the fair was scheduled to close (yes of course, the drinking continued way beyond closing time too). |
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Yet at another fair, Cisco partners incurred thousands of dollars in Cisco networking career fair expenses without a single viable candidate interviewed. |
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One 4 hour fair had 25 Cisco partners in attendance seeking to hire, and only 24 candidates showed up, none of them qualified to be hired. |
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I could continue, but you get the picture. |
Why would a Cisco network career fair be a total disaster?
What would you do to make a Cisco partner networking career fair successful?
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For a more successful Cisco partner networking career fair, perhaps you might have it occur during a local or regional Cisco users group meeting (http://www.ciscopress.com/user_groups/index.asp) or at a CIPTUG meeting (http://www.ciptug.org/), or at a Cisco Networkers conference (http://www.cisco-live.com).
Well of course, look where they were held.
Of course nobody attended the partner fairs. None of the three top population centers in the country was listed as a fair site. If you want to get the attention of people, you have to go where the people are.
...Or actually tell the community you're having one.
Raise your hand if, like me, you have never heard of a "Cisco Partner Career Fair". Although I've been a Cisco engineer for over 10 years in a couple of major population centers, this is the first I've ever heard of one of these. Perhaps Cisco isn't doing a good enough job getting the word out?
Cisco partner networking career fairs...
I second Jim Kirby's statement. I have been a Cisco engineer for twelve years and this is the first time that I've heard of such fairs. Where is Cisco announcing these fairs? How are Cisco's partners advertising these fairs?
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If you are Cisco..., you set the sand box and the players in it... for now that is. They ought to stop doing that, yet they are to high out there on the top and we down on the mother earth.