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Realize your potential
Your future is filled with choices
At Imperial
Oil, continuous learning and development are front and centre. We understand
that just because you've completed school, it doesn't mean you've reached your
full potential. Your aspirations and goals are more extensive than that -- so
are ours.
As one of Canada's largest corporations, Imperial
Oil can provide you with a number of opportunities and wide range of career
paths to choose from. Developing your skills and helping you to explore your
choices and achieve your potential is an integral part of our business. We’re
proud to provide our employees with the highest quality training required to
do the job and ensure that your development begins right from the day you
start. We have processes and programs in place to support you during your
first three to five years of employment including corporate orientation, a
early professional development (EPDP), a networking program (NAP), training,
mentorship, and formal feedback.
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Corporate Orientation
Orientation processes help familiarize new employees with the organization and
educate them on how to operate effectively within its systems and structures.
Through our comprehensive orientation program, you will gain a better
understanding of our company and the oil and gas industry.
Our corporate orientation seminar provides new hires with an overview of
Imperial Oil's strategy, structure, operations and priorities as well as an
introduction to the company's human resources policies, services, and tools.
The seminar also provides an opportunity for new hires to establish networks
of colleagues from across the company. The corporate orientation seminar is
held on an annual basis and runs approximately three-and-a-half days. The
seminar is held in Calgary, Alberta.
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Early Professional Development Program (EPDP)
You’ll find our commitment to your development begins as soon as you join
Imperial Oil. Our Early Professional Development Program is a formal program
which assesses and develops the skills and potential of new university
graduates. The program is designed to fast track your development based on
your needs. To ensure a rewarding and satisfying career, we work with you to
reach your professional goals by providing training, formal feedback,
developmental opportunities, and a structured sequence of job rotations that
lead to increasingly challenging assignments.
You
can expect to move through a number of roles in your first few years and to be
faced with a wide range of challenges that will hone your skills and develop
your business acumen and expertise. In your initial job assignment, you’ll
quickly focus on developing fundamental professional and personal capabilities
in your chosen field. Your demonstrated performance in initial assignments
leads to increasing responsibilities to develop your technical competence and
apply your skills in more challenging and diverse situations.
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Network Advisor Program (NAP)
At
Imperial Oil, you’ll have the opportunity to develop strong networks with
senior managers, technical and business professionals, and other new hires in
an informal and entertaining way through our Network Advisor Program (NAP).
NAP is a program designed to accelerate the integration of new hires and
students into Imperial Oil within their first years of employment. The program
is available at our head office in Calgary as well as in Toronto. The two main
features of the program include NAP evening events and advisor lunches. The
evening events give you an opportunity to mingle and participate in activities
designed to promote networking with senior managers, professionals and other
new hires from a wide range of areas within Imperial Oil’s business. Past
activities have included Mardi Gras, pool tournaments, murder mystery dinners,
casino nights and scavenger hunts. Additionally, you’ll have the option of
taking part in informal, one-on-one lunches with senior
professionals where you can learn about aspects of the company that may
interest you, such as potential career paths, company operations or other
areas of business.
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Training
At Imperial we
believe that the continuous development of employees' capabilities is key to
our continued business success and to the personal success of each employee.
This development encompasses a variety of ways of learning, including, but not
restricted to, formal training and education. Imperial Oil offers employees a
wide range of training options to address both technical and non-technical
effectiveness. Training is provided through in-house experts, self-study
options and outside third parties. Some training is also accessed through our
majority shareholder, ExxonMobil.
Employees also improve
their ability to achieve results through challenging work experiences,
coaching and counseling. You’ll work with a team of professionals committed to
achieving operational excellence and have the opportunity to contribute to and
build upon our tradition of proven and established best practices – a hallmark
of our success in this highly competitive industry.
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Mentorship
At Imperial Oil, we
make an investment in employees by ensuring that they are consistently
challenged and expanding their skills and knowledge. Formal and informal
mentoring can be valuable in helping employees manage these challenges
successfully. The company's Early Professional Development Program (EPDP)
facilitates the assignment of formal mentors to new hires. These mentors coach
and advise new hires on a wide range of topics ranging from technical or job
related to company wide or policy issues. Other department-specific programs
may provide mentorship opportunities to employees throughout their careers.
When it comes to managing your career, you take a leading role. But you’ll
also receive support, advice, feedback, direction and leadership to determine
your learning needs and to direct your development.
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Formal Feedback
Our
performance assessment and development process includes goal setting, biannual
formal coaching sessions for the first 3-5 years and annual performance and
capability development reviews. Your progress and achievements will not only
be benchmarks of your success; they will also be a performance measurement of
those responsible for your development.
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