{"id":2057,"date":"2014-04-08T18:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/internships\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:00:27","slug":"hitt-grant-students-take-cisco-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/hitt-grant-students-take-cisco-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"HITT Grant Students take Cisco Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to\u00a0Steve Marcinek, a systems engineer at Cisco, five HITT<\/a> grant students from Michael Gordon\u2019s CCNA class, toured Cisco facilities on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Marcinek, a St. Petersburg College Computer and Information Technology<\/a> advisory committee member, informed students, staff, and faculty about Cisco products <\/a>and the IT profession.\u00a0 The tour began with a self-introduction about how Marcinek acquired his position at Cisco.\u00a0 Mr. Marcinek conducted an informal Q&A session to encourage students to ask questions about Cisco<\/a> products, the company, and careers in information technology.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"CISCO<\/a>Students took advantage of the Q&A portion, inquiring about what employers seek in entry-level IT candidates, how to obtain positions, what additional education Marcinek thought would be beneficial, and specifics about Cisco products and services<\/a>. Marcinek explained his belief that his MBA coupled with his technical background paved a solid path for his current position as Systems Engineer.\u00a0 With this tip, Marcinek advised that an MBA would assist a potential IT recruit with navigating the corporate environment.<\/p>\n

The final tour segments showed students the latest networking equipment, including Cisco routers<\/a>, and demoed the use of Cisco\u2019s cutting-edge teleconferencing equipment<\/a>. Marcinek wrapped up the tour with an open invitation for the students to network and ask questions. When interviewed, one excited student said of the tour \u201c\u2026enjoyed seeing how Cisco incorporated technical expertise with sales skills into providing customer solutions. It was a great example of how the IT field is built on people AND technology\u2026 Ultimately an IT solution or project should\u00a0 solve a problem or fulfill the need of a business, organization, or person<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thanks to\u00a0Steve Marcinek, a systems engineer at Cisco, five HITT grant students from Michael Gordon\u2019s CCNA class, toured Cisco facilities on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Marcinek, a St. Petersburg College Computer and Information Technology advisory committee member, informed students, staff, and faculty about Cisco products and the IT profession.\u00a0 The tour began with a self-introduction … Continue reading HITT Grant Students take Cisco Tour<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7,3,9],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-preparation","category-general","category-student-stories","tag-career-pathways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10436,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/10436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}