I keep seeing or hearing applicants talk about Hal U, business I&II ect... Usually it is put up in place of having an MBA. When I ask about standard processes that any 1st year MBA should know, I get this deer caught in the headlights look. So what exactly is this? Some type of internal joke certificate?
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I have a simple rule. No MBA then next.
Not bad mouthing HAL-U it definitely has value for what it was designed for, but it is not an MBA program and is not accredited by any university. It is a fine internal training and record keeping system. The major issue with the system is not the system but want the user's think the system is. This leads to confusion and could cost the laid off employee an opportunity when the HR department checks out the system and then thinks the candidate is falsify claiming an education that they don't have.
I see that the low performers with no initiative, who only want a paycheck, and who insist on unearned yearly raises and bonuses are the ones bad-mouthing HAL-U. "Safety training? Process training? Who needs that?"
What a bunch of losers......
Halliburton needs to have a obese parking only in duncan okla
Got money on it any one in did not think so lol
it's a web-base training that your manager(s) ask you to sign-up and ain't worth sh!ittt in real world. But by the time PPR comes up... have you finished that p of sh!ttt?
LOL is this how they develop their top engineers also. Heard they will not pay for PhDs and most chief engineers only have a MS at best. LOL yes that is correct it's Mr not Dr who will be in charge of the new technology.
Halliburton university is an online based module learning system. I think the original poster might have meant to ask what Hal Academy is, instead. BLDs are Business Leadership Development 1 week courses. BLD 1 is for high-potential, new and mid-ranged supervisors/managers, and obviously, BLD II builds off of the BLD I material.
As far as it being a placeholder for a formal MBA....no.
It may be a Halliburton MBA but holds little to zero external credential, unlike a MBA.
So it sounds like it is one of those non-graduate credit/online certificates. Basically worthless outside of Hal. Nowhere close to an MBA from a top business school.
http://mays.tamu.edu/events/ced-halliburton-business-leadership-development-i-program-2/
it is a vertification by Texas A&M Business MBA school. Special curriculum for Halliburton
agree - well put. but, just so you know, it's those EPIC , folks that you want to find, those hal u folks are EPIC wanna'be's. For sure.
Hal U is just a learning Management system (LMS) and is Halliburton specific. The main use is for policy and process training record keeping that is used for API auditing as well as customer requirements. This system has no value outside Halliburton, all employees use it from high school drop outs to Sr management,
It was and is the biggest waste of time I saw in my 38yrs working in the truck shop hall U need to be 5 s
HAL-U is nothing more than a sh--load of meaningless 'competency' courses that are mostly government supplied, or third party sourced slideshows on safety, environmental type subjects. They are required only because the government mandates this sort of 'training', but with the added benefit that management uses your completion numbers to dole out raises/promotions (NOT THAT THAT WILL EVERY HAPPEN) IF you complete all that are required, BUT they keep changing the titles, or breaking the courses down into segments, thus extending the required number even further into the distance.
Just typical management generated bullshit, the "instructor-led" courses are NEVER available, and the on-line courses have ambiguous answers that offer no explanation of why "A' is more correct than 'C'.
Either this was dreamed up by some consulting firm, to which Halliburton paid a huge fee, OR it is government mandated bullshit that Halliburton receives some tax writeoffs on, or some tax money for providing this 'training'.
Business 1 and 2 sounds like BLD 1, II, ETC. BLD (Business leadership developement or something along those lines) are more intensive seminars that they send their 'management' material into. Often they are put on by a nearby public/private university in the geographic area. The higher the BLD level, the bigger/harder the projects and tests are. Most supervisors and managers in the department I'm in have minimum of BLD 1 and 2. I've been told by some more open minded managers that the higher level projects can be tough. However, I'd hesitate to say that they are anything near an actual MBA. If the candidate is having to name drop for a simple question, I'd run the other way if I were you.
Faulty information supplied below, I wonder how that poster can have been employed at Halliburton. HAL-U is a HUGE number of training modules covering a great number of disciplines within all Halliburton PSLs. The modules consist of on-line training with a required an 80% pass rate of the exams included in each module. There are also instructor-led training modules, usually with pass-fail requirements. Each Halliburton employee is assigned a certain number of modules to complete depending on his/her job role.
Some training is HSE oriented, some is about HAL processes, some is technical, some is operational. I don't know if HAL-U qualifies as "MBA equivalent" since the topics covered usually have little to do with MBA certificataion. To properly evaluate the candidate you need to have a complete list of the training taken. I hope this helps to clarify the true nature of HAL-U.
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So people are claiming to have graduated from a seminar? It is just bizarre. When I asked this applicant if the program had some type of accreditation, he became very defensive and just started dropping all these names. I guess they are big names inside of Hal, but I had no idea of who they were.
Hal U is a seminar and some other stuff to make rent a cop managers feel more important. I thought it was a waste of time. A Halliburton employee with a deer in the headlights look is very common. The company does not want anyone qualified because they cost too much.