Happy Journey!
01 Nov 2005
TNK-BP, a young and dynamic company, pays particular attention to the human resources policy and, first of all, to young professionals. Building up and running a stable business in the regions of Company presence implies attraction of energetic, motivated and highly skilled specialists. Young professionals with their fresh knowledge and juvenile ardor have the audacity and fervor to tackle the most complex industrial problems.
Every year the Company recruits about 300 young engineers. 380 graduates of colleges and universities joined TNK-BP this year. On October 21, new employees of the Ryazan Refinery and TNK-BP companies in Udmurtia came together to be initiated into oilmen.
Robert Dudley, President and CEO of TNK-BP, addressed the audience of newcomers with the words: “You are the future of our Company, and we believe that your professionalism and commitment will help us all to build a world class company. I am sure that you will work diligently, enjoy your work and results, adopt the experience of your elder colleagues, and bravely resolve new interesting problems that we are facing every days. My new workfellows, welcome to TNK-BP!”
Young professionals attentively listened to Clark Cridland, Vice President, Human Resources, TNK-BP, who told them the history of the Company, its goals and aspirations, and the story of himself joining the oil industry 26 years ago as a young specialist just like everyone in the audience. “It is a pity that the company where I started to work did not have this wonderful tradition – initiation to oilmen,” said Mr. Cridland.
Young professionals having just graduated and starting their first independent work do not always succeed in everything and at once. It is a good luck if there is someone experienced and wise ready to share his or her experience and wisdom.
“When I was a student of the Oil Department at Udmurtia State University, I thought that I would come back home, to Tatarstan, after graduation, but it turned out so that I stayed here, and I do not regret it at all,” told the audience Gulshat Razetdinova, a young employee of TNK-BP. “Now, I am working in the regional procurement center in a company of remarkable people. Naturally, in the beginning there always may be hardships, mishaps, and critical remarks. Only later you start realizing that these remarks only express the interest to your work and only do you good.”
Evgeny Borisov, Engineer of the Financial Department of Udmurtenergoneft, carries on the conversation: “I have made up my mind about my occupation long before finishing school. As a young specialist, I was received very well and given all kinds of help and advice to make me quickly adapt to the work. They justly pointed to both the merits and demerits of my work, and their objectiveness used to encourage me a lot. I am glad that I started my career at TNK-BP. It is a promising company with a plenty of growth opportunities for young professionals. Now, I am going to study new programs that are necessary for my successful work and willing to learn English well.”
What does the Company expect from young professionals? What are the plans and expectations of the young professionals joining the Company? These were the questions discussed during the presentation of the development program Three Horizons prepared by the corporate center for young professionals.
Marina Ruslanovna Pakhomkina, Director of the Corporate Training Department of TNK-BP, explained the basic concepts of the programs: “Three Horizons are three years of professional development and growth of young specialists during which they have to reach certain levels of development. Apart from the high level education, graduates of different colleges and universities starting their work at TNK-BP must have certain skills and habits that will help them succeed in business. These are the development standards instilled in the young professionals participating in the Three Horizons program. Let us have a look at these standards.
“First, good personal habits such as the learning ability, openness to new ideas, flexible thinking, personal initiative, and optimization of the existing approaches to work. Second, the ability of working in a team and coordinating one’s steps and activities with the colleagues for ensuring the optimal results. Third, business skills implying the ability to keep a balance between the input and output and analyze the consequences of the decisions made. And finally, leadership qualities showing the reliability and responsibility of young professionals in fulfilling their commitments.”
Valentin Ivanovich Kudinov, a patriarch of the oil industry in Udmurtia, the founder of Udmurtneft, professor and academician, offered his paternal advice to the young people: “Do not think that you have already become engineers. You have only mastered the basics of your profession. Your real life universities will be in the industry. A true engineer must know everything – production, development, geology, and construction. Be modest, and never put yourselves above a working man. Remember that mineral resources and the subsoil wealth should be developed sparingly and rationally with a maximum efficiency and minimal expenses. The first thing you should do is create a good team and develop your working system. Only so you can become real leaders. Every one of you should feel utterly responsible for the entrusted task. Increase your knowledge and learn from your elder colleagues, because without this you will never grow into true professionals.”
Alexander Alexeyevich Zelenin congratulated the young professionals with their initiation into oilmen and shared his professional experience with them. He emphasized that the work of oilmen is hard but very interesting, encouraged the young people to be ready for victories and defeats, sleepless nights and rejoicing after successfully finished works, and stressed that juvenile attitude and ardor are the qualities that may help them become true professionals.
Sergey Dmitrievich Biryukov, General Director of Udmurtneft, admonished the young people: “Do not stop in your progress and attain new heights every month and every year. Give all your skills and experience to the Company and the cause of your life.”
Then every young professional took an oath of allegiance to the profession. They raised from their seats and said in one voice: “From now on, I am a member in the family of oilmen. I promise that I will be a qualified professional for the oil industry, the Company and my enterprise. I will try my best to be useful for the oil industry, the Company and my enterprise. I will consider their goals, success and hardship as mine. Now I am an oil-person and proud of it.”
Every initiated young professional was presented a certificate of the beginning of their working career in the Company.
Then the young people took part in joyful festivities and games sharing their present vision of the future work. The team of new employees from the Izhevsk Oil Research Center came out the winner in the games. The start was good. Happy journey, dear colleagues!
Source: Neftyanik Udmurtii
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