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Cisco eyes new hirings in New England region
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:25 am (PST)
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Cisco eyes new hirings in New England region
By Jackie Noblett
Cisco Systems Inc. has big plans to grow its global workforce this year, and
New England Cisco officials say the region is no exception.
In the week since Cisco CEO John Chambers said the San Jose networking giant
would hire up to 3,000 people globally, Paul Bosco, vice president and
general manager of video and broadband at Cisco and overseer of the company'
s 2,000 employees locally, said "we've already begun to grow." The company
has just short of 50 positions they would like to fill locally and expect to
fill 15 to 20 of those with people outside the company.
Many of the positions are designed to fill out the teams of Cisco's main
product lines in the area: collaboration software and video networks.
Specifically, the company is hiring sales and support personnel for its
WebEx collaboration software as well as engineers and salespeople for its
growing line of video delivery and video communications products.
"Video is a fundamentally transformational moment in our industry, and we
are hiring in a range of sales and R&D groups that span the entire video
spectrum," Bosco said. The Boston area is a major center of Cisco's video
concept and platform solutions group.
The organic growth in headcount is on top of acquisitions of local
companies. Late last year, Cisco closed the acquisition of Tewksbury mobile
data delivery technology firm Starent Networks. While Bosco would not
comment specifically on the company's plans for Starent, he noted the
importance of such investments in the Massachusetts IT industry.
"It's a very good sign of the health of the industry to have hiring again,
but the fact that we have put $2.9 billion in the region... I'd count that
as an example of importance of investing in the entrepreneurial spirit of
the region," he said.
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