Job Description

Meet the Team

Join Cisco's Preboarding Administration & Candidate Experience (PACE) team as a Talent Acquisition Coordinator Trainee, where you will gain comprehensive exposure to the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with talent advisors, business stakeholders, asset management, and external candidates, learning how the entire recruitment process operates within a global HR environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop both behavioral and technical skills, including presentation abilities, Excel proficiency, and practical usage of AI tools in recruitment processes.

Your Impact

• Have a natural, customer-oriented mentality - this means an eloquent and useful communication style, detail orientation, and being highly responsive to partners.
• Are exceptionally organized, personable, and seamlessly manage multiple work priorities in a fast-paced environment to meet tight deadlines … and you make it look easy.
• Are passionate about people, which you continually demonstrate by identifying new ways to improve your candidates’ experience.
• Have outstanding interpersonal & relationship management skills; you are a "people person" and shine in a team setting.
• Thrive on change; demonstrating the flexibility to prioritize and adapt quickly when needed.
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality by keeping sensitive information secure.
• Ambitiously take on new assignments to support your team.
• You will learn to use AI-driven insights effectively to navigate day-to-day technical or operational challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• Completed 3-year Non-Engineering degrees (B.Com, BBA, BA, BBM etc.)
• You must have graduated in 2025/2026 and should have Provisional Degree Certificate.
• Must be available for a period of 12 months starting Sept 2026
• Basic Knowledge of MS office tools
• Good communication skills, passion & desire to learn, "Can do" attitude, proactive engagement, solutions seeking & a team player.
• Must have enrolled as a "student" on https://nats.education.gov.in/ and have a valid student enrolment number issued by NATS.

Disclaimer

Cisco’s greatest strength is its people. To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process, and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company.

Please be advised that any communication from Cisco recruiters about careers will:

• Be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company jobs site
• Begin with screening or an interview
• Originate from a Cisco email address, and
• Be conducted across email, phone, or Webex

Cisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask candidates for payments in any way. All formal application's status can be viewed through [2] https://jobs.cisco.com, with all offers coming from Cisco Recruiting mailer with directions to access via a secure portal. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from sites or channels other than above mentioned, please do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Social Security or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.

If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. Cisco bears no responsibility and cannot be held liable for any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to recruiting scams.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Disclaimer

To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:

• be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site
• begin with screening or an interview
• originate from a Cisco email address, and
• be conducted across email, phone, or WebEx

Cisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from a site other than https://careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Aadhaar or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.

If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. Cisco bears no responsibility, and cannot be held liable, for any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to recruiting scams.