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You've invested plenty in the education and skills you bring to IBM. And we're committed to your continued career growth and achievement.
An early start at career success begins with Your IBM, our new-hire training program. You'll learn how IBM works, how to maximize your contribution to the company, how to successfully navigate within IBM and connect with your colleagues—and have fun in the process!
To help you identify opportunities, construct a skills road map and mark your progress, IBM offers easy-to-navigate career Web sites and tools.
- Individual development plan -Your career path will be as individual as you are. You might choose to move vertically, you might prefer to deepen your knowledge in your field of expertise or you might decide to make lateral moves to broaden your range of skills. Whichever path you choose, you will create an individual development plan each year to help you to continue to grow.
- Management training - Is management your goal? IBM has an award-winning management development program that can enable you to develop effective leadership skills to help you move ahead as you lead in a high-performance culture.
We invest heavily in our employees' development to maximize the success of our company, and the success of our people. As an IBM employee, you have access to worldwide resources to help you define your career and achieve professional growth. These resources include:
- Job role and technical training - In addition to top-notch professional skills, IBM focuses on in-depth industry and technical training to keep you up to date on emerging technologies and skills valued in the marketplace.
- Academic learning assistance program - IBM provides assistance for external education in addition to our internal training offerings to help you keep your skills aligned with our business goals.
- Global Campus - Whether you're looking for online or classroom courses offered by IBM's professional communities, you'll find them on the IBM Global Campus Web site. Universal access to thousands of internal e-learning modules is included, so you can take the courses you need at your convenience. Through Global Campus, you can also reference leading business and technical publications.
We encourage our employees to take full advantage of educational opportunities. Here's proof:
- Tuition Refund - IBM will reimburse 100 percent of each employee's tuition and other eligible fees for accredited education programs outside regular working hours. We require three things: your curriculum must meet IBM's business needs; it must be approved by your manager; and you must satisfactorily complete the preapproved courses.
- Educational leaves of absence - Subject to management approval, if your course of study mutually benefits you and IBM, we can grant an unpaid educational leave of absence.
Want to know what it takes to succeed at IBM? With the help of our employees, we've defined nine Foundational Competencies — characteristics such as adaptability, creative problem solving and the drive to succeed — the hallmarks of successful IBM employees. Collectively, the competencies form a solid base for your continued development as they help you to achieve your business and development goals. For more information about the competencies, check out the values section under Life at IBM.
One measure of IBM's market value is the expertise of our employees. By helping you develop and maintain top skills, IBM — and IBM employees — stay competitive in the marketplace. Our skills are a signal to our clients, stockholders and competitors of our potential for growth and success.
If you could see the future, and then look back on your success at IBM, you'd see this: You were open to gaining new experience,s and increasing your knowledge and expertise; you thrived in a stimulating, fast-changing environment; and you were rewarded for exceptional performance through increased responsibility and visibility. You'd see that development guidance and tools were available to you at every stage of your career. |
