Graduate Development Programme and Future Skills

Abstract

Abstract People development and continuous improvement has been an instrumental pillar for Petroleum Development Oman. This was strongly evident from PDO's vision "To be renowned and respected for the excellence of our people and the value we create for Oman, and shareholders". Hence ensuring talent pipelines and feedstock has been a continuous journey and improvement since years. Having said that, with focus on building capabilities for future to sustain and hold the flagship of PDO, in 2013 marks a great millstone forming up solid "PDO Graduate Development Programme" to continue the people development journey of building capabilities and the objective mainly was to ensure feedstock of talents in the pipeline, building future leaders and professionals, equip them with important core technical and commercial skills and competencies in order to reduce time to autonomy. Given the challenging VUCA world market that is ever changing through different challenging conditions, coupled with challenges on shortage of talents and retention, it becomes critical to reimagine how to develop, retain, sustain, and equip younger professionals with skills that would benefit them now and in the future. Hence, the objective of this paper is present the future ready skills that have been identified and planned as part of the graduate development programme, and the methodology was followed to ensure value adding, sustainability and continuously improving our young professionals in order to contribute to PDO's business and energy shift.