Cisco favours BCU graduates
Cisco, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has chosen to employ more graduates from Birmingham City University than any other university in the U, it has been revealed.
This year ,the American multinational had just 23 places on its highly competitive graduate training programme, which receives thousands of applications each year. Six of these places were given to graduates from Birmingham City University which boasts Europe’s leading Cisco network academy programme.
Of the six graduates, four were hired as associate network consulting engineers, who are currently training in Belgium, and two have been hired as associate systems engineers and are being trained here in the UK.
Following the training, which lasts between four to 11 months, the graduates will be guaranteed jobs with Cisco Systems which employs more than 65,000 staff and has an annual revenue of $40bn.
The graduates undergo an intensive training programme which consists of classroom, on the job experience and shadowing, as well as hands-on technical simulations in computer lab environments.
