Lori Holloway: Recruiter & Talent Acquisition, Cisco | EP14

Dream Job Ready

Dream Job Ready Episode 14: Lori Holloway (Recruitment & Talent Acquisition, Cisco)

Lori Holloway is a Customer Experience Talent Acquisition Partner at Cisco, responsible for recruiting and onboarding talent into the IT giant’s Enterprise Networking, Data Center, Storage, and Service Provider departments. She’s regularly vetting, interviewing and helping hire for roles such as Network and Software Engineers.

Lori goes into some amazing and helpful detail about the job application and recruitment processes in this episode, sharing advice about how companies like Cisco approach the process and what you, a willing applicant, should do to best present yourself as an ideal candidate for the role.

This episode delivers the wisdom, insights and advice Dream Job Ready strives to learn. Real, honest, practical and useful information and guidance to help you get ready for your dream job opportunity.

We talk about resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn, job descriptions, application screening, interviewing, the importance of communication, hard and soft skills, and plenty more.

This episode’s “Question of the Week” is from a student named Rosie, who asks Lori “Do I need to include a Cover Letter with my application?”

On top of the job seeker to-do’s, Lori shares plenty about her day-to-day, working with Cisco’s hiring managers to identify staffing needs, sourcing and searching for talent to fit open roles, reviewing candidate information, and examining culture fit early in the screening process.

We also talk about the volunteer work she’s been doing to help professionals that have lost their jobs due to Covid-19. I’ve been really impressed with Cisco’s “Give Back to Get Back on Track” initiative and was glad to hear it’s been well-received across the world.

Music: ‘Funky Sunday’ composed and performed by the magnificent Mark Matthews

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