KPMG | Cisco Alliance Outreaches to CALNET for Technical Recruiting

December 1, 1999

Cisco's router/hub/server technology is positioned as being one of the most innovative technologies since the telephone. KPMG has delivered tax and IS consulting services globally for over three decades. Combining their strengths KPMG and Cisco have aligned; where KPMG will leverage their Fortune 1000 clients by moving them to standardize on Cisco networking and internet technology.

Cisco has invested over a billion dollars into the relationship creating a new demand for over 4000 technology professionals. "The demand for IT professionals is already staggering. This alliance has created a feeding freeze for Cisco engineers." Hughes stated to Informationweek. "But they have come to the right place. CALNET has one unique skill, and that is being able to find those obligatory needles in those haystacks." CALNET has signed on to assist KPMG in finding IT professionals with Networking and Telecom backgrounds.