Career Development

At ConocoPhillips there’s always potential for personal and professional growth. Learning and Development is an on-going process and an integral factor to our success.
Various opportunities exisit that enrich your talent and skill at every step of your career. 

Our mission is a rather direct: to maximise performance by investing in people. By providing programs that enrich your talents and skills at every step of your career, we strengthen not only your professional value, but the business value and plan of ConocoPhillips. That said, we believe employee development is a three-way partnership in which all parties are accountable. They include:

• Business leaders, accountable for developing their people
• Individuals, for developing and converting what they learn into business results
• Global Learning and Development, for development strategy and learning forums.

We value and encourage learning to take place from a variety of different sources. Our framework to learning seeks to combine all aspects of development whether acquired through formal training, job assignments or through reflection and feedback.    

Talent Management Teams

At ConocoPhillips, we have more than 20 different functional-based Talent Management Teams (TMTs) that help identify the company’s future business needs, assess current skill gaps and recommend actions to fill those gaps. These teams optimize the development of people with technical or highly specialized skills so that they can be shared globally or regionally by the company in order to successfully implement its strategy. TMTs also help identify critical skill sets to ensure the right ones are available when needed by the business.

New Hire Training

All new hires will be invited to participate in a week long program specifically designed to help you learn about the general Industry, our company and professional development topics that have shown to be beneficial to employees who’ve just come onboard.

Professional Development

ConocoPhillips is committed to the personal and professional development of our employees and offer educational assistance to help you further your professional career. Whether it's support for chartered status for chemical or mechanical engineering, or a Chartered Institute of Management Accounting or Association of Chartered Accountants qualification, we are always supportive to helping you maximize your potential in line with business need.

Mentoring

Through the effective use of mentors, employees can receive career guidance as well as the opportunity to increase individual knowledge and skills needed to succeed.

Training Courses

ConocoPhillips offer a variety of classroom-based core development programs specially designed to help individuals achieve personal growth and success in their careers.

Networks

ConocoPhillips encourages learning to take place through knowledge sharing.  Various opportunities for networking within the organization are available, including communities, forums and clubs encourage and facilitate knowledge sharing and personal development.