Cisco account question - multiple accounts

[Dieselboy]

Cisco has a weird policy. I was unable to use my gmail account as my email address and I dont have a private domain.

So here's the story:

- assigned my personal account to my employer company back in around 2014
- after this we became a Cisco partner
- Cisco wielded their almighty hammer, I had to use the company email address for the account. In hindsight this must be due to becoming a cisco partner
-- "partner resources" now showing under my personal account which was using a @domain of the company as a sign-in
- I was departing this company so I updated the email address to that of the new employer
- I then left that employer and went over seas
- I then lost access to the account because I no longer had access to the email address


So at this point I contacted Cisco to explain. I needed to do something because I had to book an exam in the following few weeks. Cisco informed me that my only option was to create a new Cisco account. I didnt like it but I was unable to fight Thor with a plastic keyboard. I booked / passed the exam and I have a personal account registered to my gmail so those boxes were ticked again and I was happy with that regard.

But get this;

I'm now back at company #2. I tried logging in to that Cisco account and:
a) I can log in
b) it's still associated to the company
c) it's still associated to my CCO ID, and all my certifications and exams are displaying there including the exam I passed overseas
d) it does still have the partner resources link (even though I'm not in a position to manage the company's partner status (I havent even clicked around to find out what options are available, I just notice the "partner" link showing up.


Nothing is broken, so nothing needs fixing... I think. But I have 2x Cisco logins that show up my certifications. I suppose, I actually only have one login (the gmail one) and the other is tied to the current company that I work for and when I depart I'll just forget about the account associated to my employer. But I suppose, technically I can associate the gmail account to another employer simultaneously - not that I'm going to attempt that, but it's an odd situation.

[deanwebb]

I left Global Megacorp back in 2017 and didn't stop getting Cisco mailings relative to that account until around late 2019, when I think they finally cleaned up the people on the account.

[icecream-guy]

best to just keep your old cisco accounts from previous employers. create new ones for new employers. as for certification tracking, I think that is all vendor now.