Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

I agree with the poster about this statement but I don’t believe Chevron is good at developing the management talent. They select “yes” people not leaders for management and continue to get the same declining results year after year.

“Although management still recognizes the need to recognize and build new management talent, the focus on building broader workforce compliance and a development chain of SMEs has been lost.“

"Permian ... our biggest technical playground". Yes, but considering this resource will be in steep decline within the next 5 years, one wonders what will become of our untrained petro tech workforce. One invests today in workforce competency for tomorrow.

The handwriting was on the wall when the Permian became our biggest technical playground. You don't need 'career development' to pattern drill in West Texas.

OP, you're entirely correct. That's why you have to work on your own to develop your career and talents, then leverage them to another company. This has been a winning formula in the oil industry for decades: get good at what you do, jump companies for higher title and pay, then repeat. And repeat. It's your choice: there are plenty of people out there who spent most of their career with a company like Chevron, and retired as relative unknowns (that is, no career accomplishments) but financially sound. Then there's people who worked for a number of companies over the years, retired financially well and with name recognition in their line of work. Those are the people who "retire" to be consultants or academicians.

Factory doesn't need employees to develop - Just keep doing what you doing and nothing else. They do however develop select few wh are selected early before they are tested. It's been that way since the start of the FL program, Only difference now is that non FLs options consist of the same shop floor. Churn Churn Churn

A decade ago, there was some effort to develop SMEs across disciplines and recognize advancement of technical experts with more external conference attendance and internal mentoring responsibilities. Although management still recognizes the need to recognize and build new management talent, the focus on building broader workforce compliance and a development chain of SMEs has been lost. Sadly, that is probably one reason we can’t seem to find oil anymore and need to focus on M&A for reserves replacement.

Identify as a fee-mail and your career will be handed to you. Pretty simple formula Chevron follows now.

it suprised me as I was hoping it will be much different. I agree - seems there is no true focus effort to keep "the best of the best". In IT, they marked entire teams as "out of scope" since they are part of a major project - even though many of them are not even the people we really need to win and just got lucky to be in the project.

They only develop you if you’re labeled a hipo when hired.