Research report I admire and have grown to respect Cisco as a company. Founded in 1984, it had grown to become a success story, with an annual revenue of 43 billion U.S. dollars, as of 2011. Cisco is indeed a household name across the world. What attracted me to this great company are its great products and its highly accredited certifications (Deel, Nelson & Smith 2002). Cisco networking products, apart from being essential, are the preferred network solution in most networking companies and are of high quality. The company has a diverse employment record and an outstanding corporate social responsibility. This is indeed the company that has a great capacity to make an impact on society, just like Google, Facebook, or Apple (Lambert & Poole 2005). I would like to work in this great company, first, because of the challenges to develop career-wise, which it offers. Cisco has been voted the best employers in various countries, where it has a presence. It also gives its employees a chance to invest in the company through shareholding. This is one feature that wins the hearts and minds of the employees. The pay is great, and a good incentive as well. It is wonderful when a company appreciates its employees and gives them a chance to live comfortable lives. The networking skills that employees acquire when working with this company are not easy to find anywhere else. This company also has very attractive benefits to the staff, like health package, paid staff outdoor events, and great retirement benefits (Lambert & Poole 2005). I would like to work in the technical field as a network technician and rise to become a network engineer since Cisco develops network solutions. Working in the technical field will give me a wide range of expert knowledge on any networking system. I enjoy and admire to work in a structured environment, which also offers a little amount of flexibility. Working alongside people who seek to invent new solutions to the world internet challenges can be very rewarding. It can be like a dream come true, as it gives me a chance to give back to society by providing them with IT solutions to their everyday challenges (Lambert & Poole 2005). According to Lambert and Poole (2005), Cisco as a company has pros and cons, which affect where one may be placed. Some of the pros are flexible working conditions and a great management team. The cons are that there are a few promotions for technical stuff (Schatz 1983). With that background, I see myself still in the same position and department in the next three years. However, after that, I expect to rise to a more senior position and have a much broader working area (Lambert & Poole 2005). I would like to participate first in buying shares in the company, as I believe in it. Secondly, I would make suggestions to my seniors to encourage more interaction with the market, as I believe that this company has the potential to become a very important global player. Through technology, I would seek to develop solutions, which can benefit the company market-wise. Getting an idea of such solutions can be easy when one uses social media to interact with the customers and ask what they would like included i