If we had one would you use it? Would this be better than the current policy of asking your supervisor for a transfer?
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It is about control and precisely why so many of the wrong people have been promoted to leadership positions.
It is about control and precisely why so many of the wrong people have been promoted to leadership positions.
It is about control and precisely why so many of the wrong people have been promoted to leadership positions.
A Job board is bad idea , it’s much better to be randomly moved to a position you have no interest in, under a supervisor you don’t get to meet in advance who has outsized impact on your career (or even avoiding nsi) by some magical S&D team that you’ve never met. Yes this is far superior than an internal job board and letting internal applicants apply lolololol this place is the absolute worst
Should be a law - and it is, in some successful cultures - that all job openings in a company are accessible to the employee. Clearly - and with employee self-initiative for applying for these openings. No belittling, but even non-EU countries have it.
And this should apply the more so:
if half the company's income is government subsidies, tax breaks and write-offs for dis-employing people.
Everybody has their own opinion.
That is joke #1.
I would use it simply because I don't trust my immediate management due to conflict of interest.
Had a colleague few years back request to make a move from the field back into the office. His supervisor told him no, he needed him as a rotator. He got an offer at another company and resigned. Before he left, XOM HR pulled him in for a meeting and offered him the office job. His team had simply never kicked his request up the chain to HR. HR determined he was valuable enough in either roll but his team did not and made the decision themselves without consulting HR. It was too late by then though and he resigned anyway.
So, a question for supervisors and department managers, if one of your employees requests for a transfer are you required to notify HR?
Of course I would use it. The 2 companies that I worked for prior XOM had them and I pursued opportunities through them. I was able to get jobs and make moves. It wasn’t without flaws but it gave me more control over my career. XOM’s system is to tell me they are looking for opportunities that are a good fit for me but after 8 years I am beginning to suspect that no one is lifting a finger for my future.
I’m, try Careers link at Exxon www.
That’s how to see what jobs are available.
Duh
Some oil majors used the ‘job board’ concept to make employees reapply to their own jobs (versus getting laid off.) I bet the company already knew which ones were leaving before they went through the process of reapplying.
The grass isn’t always greener.
SMFH here. At my previous employer, the job post had a 'candidate identified' box to let applicants know that someone had been identified. Said someone didn't always get the job, though. The job board let me know what kinds of jobs were out there. The application & interview process sharpened my skills. In fact, application to a job that was a few years out of my reach let my management know that I was interested. A few years later, I got that dream job.
To the ex-XOM poster, talk to people who grew up in communist countries and had almost no free-will. How many would like to go back to centrally-planned-the-authorities-know-what-is-best days? In the immortal words of Rush: I will choose free will.
Having the jobs posted doesn’t change anything. Two technical positions with identical official descriptions may mean entirely different things. The one given to a regular employee is actual work. The one given to a highly sponsored hi-po is officially the same, but the supervisor makes sure it’s a total softball, consisting of summarizing the work of regular technical people and presenting it to the management. How would a job board change that ?
Hey, EM lifers, if you haven't already figured it out, EM treats us like children. The opacity & secrecy are like the Santa Claus lie many of us were told as children. Do you think that at other companies employees get their raises on a hand-written post-it? No. And they have internal job boards, plus flexible pay (aka bonuses). I know, I came from the world outside the EM moat. Ask yourself: is the moat there to keep them out or to keep us in?
The job boards are useless. I used to work for XOM, and hated the inability to manage my own career. Now I am ex-XOM, and find those job boards are total garbage. Most times, they have already decided who to hire, but have to post to appear fair. Worse, sometimes they go outside instead. I think the XOM way is better.....
Absolutely! I've never understood why open positions are secret? I've even asked to see the listing and been denied.
I know management does not know all the skills and desires of their people, so how efficient can they be with placing people into positions? It's frustrating!
Just like hearing that we would never have 9/80s, I also heard we would never have internal job boards. Can't do anything when all the white wigs do in Dallas is to talk about change but action none. WeAreExxonMobil and WeWillRemainExxonMobil