1 millionth Cisco certification milestone occurs during much ballyhooed Cisco worldwide talent shortage!

Brad…let me address/correct your statements/questions above one at a time.

BradReese.Com has got quite a few Cisco Networking Academy graduates that Cisco has been ignoring:

First, in its 10 year history the Cisco Networking Academies have graduated more than 2 million people, meaning even if all 456 BardReese.com resumes were Networking Academy graduates you’d have less than one, one-thousandth of a percent of the total population.

Furthermore, per our announcement two weeks ago at the Partner Summit, by allowing candidates who come to the Cisco careers page to also post their resume to the Partner Talent Network Cisco is doing the exact opposite of ignoring these individuals. The fact is, Cisco may not have a need for the candidate’s skill, but its partner community might. So where at most companies the quest for employment would be over if the company didn’t have a job requiring the skills of the candidate Cisco is actually the only company in the IT industry that offers candidates additional opportunities with its partners. So to say we are ignoring these candidates is inaccurate.

The balkanization of worldwide Cisco recruiting has nobody at Cisco working together, for example look at the Cisco Talent Portals…five fiefdoms who are at a total disconnect!

Let’s start with the last thought first…five fiefdoms who are at a total disconnect…not true. We have placed links to the Partner Portals for the US, Canada and Europe so candidates can place their resume into other theater portals for consideration. In addition, all submitted resumes are available to all Cisco recruiters around the world, which also refutes the thought that no one at Cisco is working together.

Finally, as a publicly traded company, Cisco is subject to US and country-specific regulations regarding the safeguard of personal information. For example, Cisco cannot legally dump every resume of every European candidate that we have into our Partner Portals s we would be in violation of European data privacy laws which stipulate that we would have to receive the active permission of the candidates to do so. Ultimately it is a legal decision to prohibit the transmission of resumes outside of Cisco, not a "balkanization."

Yours truly has the CV/Resumes of Cisco Certified Network Engineers from 55 different countries and there is NOT a single resource at Cisco that can help coordinate the disbursement of those CV/Resumes from 55 different countries.

As stated above, all resumes submitted to Cisco are available to all Cisco recruiters around the world via our HR system. Furthermore, I crossed referenced your resumes with our database and we have many if not all, I ran out of time, of your resumes in our system already.

Finally Lang, is Cisco going to aggressively facilitate the careers of unhappy sales and tech talent who wish to leave the employ of one Cisco channel partner for an employment opportunity with another Cisco channel partner or even Cisco itself?

As I said the last time you asked this question, we are transforming the way partners attract, develop and retain talent, which means we are providing candidates with options to explore new opportunities just like Career Builder and Monster just on a more focused level and when the Partner Talent Network launches in June on a more collaborative and interactive level.