training and development

ExxonMobil is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining the best people from the broadest possible employee pool to meet our business needs worldwide. We strive to provide our employees with the best career opportunities in our industry. We encourage individual growth and achievement of career goals.

In 2007, our training reached more than 35,000 participants, and training expenditures totaled more than $61 million. To strengthen our technical capacity, we conducted more than 500 in-house technical courses for about 13,000 participants.

Through a combination of work assignments and training, our employees develop the necessary leadership capabilities for performing effectively in a variety of environments. In 2007, more than 3200 employees at various levels of management from around the world participated in ExxonMobil’s leadership development training programs. Approximately 23 percent of participants were women and 55 percent were non-U.S. employees.

In addition, we developed world-class technical training programs for new employees in our operations in Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria, and on Sakhalin Island, Russia. We fund technical and apprentice training programs, both in-country and internationally, to help the national workforce develop the necessary operations and maintenance skills to work at oil and gas facilities.

For example, since 1996, we have spent more than $30 million on training and development in Equatorial Guinea. This has benefited more than 100 national technicians who participated in three-year training programs as well as 47 other national employees who were trained in a variety of programs abroad.

Our commitment to training extends beyond ExxonMobil employees. In some cases, personnel from national oil companies work in our offices and participate in technology workshops and training programs, which further contributes to building national capacity.