Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

@hzpq, I totally agree with you.

If anything Horizons is too fabulous a training program. Best in industry with a huge swath of top-notch courses and experiences. You won't find anything like it elsewhere. If you got nothing out of it, good riddance!

In my view as part of the final cross-functional experience there should be an examination. If you don't pass, you are out. Sort of like the bar exam. This would ensure learning takes places in the courses and not just some exotic travel and lot of expense account clubbing. Breathalyzers each morning of class would not be a bad idea either.

Good riddance to you, OP. I and many of my colleagues have benefited greatly from the Horizons Program.

Horizons is dying on the vine. Very little value. As for mentors, most with serious experience spend a few hours of company time each day tracking their stock portfolio and timing their exit instead of mentoring.

Let the horizons run the company. The experienced hires left. They would rather spend their weekends bing watching the walking dead rather than witnessing the ptc10 fgp sour gas injection compressor test

No shyte. This actually happened

The Horizons engineers and geologists that I know are put in real jobs - managing drill programs, writing work over procedures, identifying new play opportunities. Horizons is suppose to give new hires varied experiences in the first five years of their career, I think it’s doing that.

The comments about mentors being poor or non-existent are probably a valid knock against the program, and needs to be addressed.

@5ojn, You make good old fashioned “old school” sense. I think the same way too. But, Chevron is a left coast minded company who think they know better. To their own regret, that kind of thinking will be the end the competitiveness of many companies in the not so distant future.

The Horizons program now is just a four year internship where everyone is overpaid. After “graduating” from the program you have bunch of part animals with no real experience. The program should be eliminated. And when people are hired out of college, they should be but in a real job with real responsibilities and forced to do real work. The ones that do well, get promoted in a few years and the ones that don’t, don’t. Just like the rest of the world. Or better yet, don’t hire direct college graduates and only hire people that have already proven their capabilities at a service company and actually knows something.

-5vnu. Some of all I would think. Down turns generally lead to short-term thinking by everyone, from Sr. management on down. It is unfortunate that this down turn happen during (and accelerated) the great crew change. As commodity prices return and the focus shifts back to longer term opportunities and new development activities I anticipate management is in for whiplash as they come to terms with all the experienced talent that departed the last couple of years.

Is the lack of effective mentorship due to many experience hands leaving, or perhaps that those that remain are too busy to help train up Horizon employees, or the withholding of information due to the increasingly competitive atmosphere at Chevron, or possibly something else?

The Horizons program is a very good one in its intent to develop the newest engineers. What I don’t like about it is the average result we’re getting when the new hires leave the program. Most of the Horizons Program graduates are not turning out to be all they could. Mentorship is terrible. The guidance the young employees receive is almost non existent.

What is it about the Horizons program that you don’t like?

Spot on, @1gia. Send in the henchmen.

It’s symptomatic of Chevron’s philosophy that a process can solve any problem. Too bad the real world doesn’t work that way.

The Horizons program at Chevron is not what it was envisioned to be. Progressively over the years, it’s intented purpose has eroded tremendously. It is now a series of training exposure lacking in adequate mentorship. The result is yielding less effective and more problematic employees. Horizons needs to be retooled urgently.

I read your post three times but can’t understand it. Apparently we need to add a Horizons module on clear thinking and articulate written communication.

Hindsight is 20/20. Move on.