Training and Professional Development

Rosneft offers its employees equal opportunities to continuously develop their skills and abilities. A comprehensive strategy of personnel development is central to the Company’s HR policy. Rosneft is confident that professional excellence can be achieved through continuous training of its own specialists.

Corporate professional development programs aimed at improving core competencies and motivation of Rosneft employees are an important aspect of the Company’s growth strategy. Training programs, which are available for all groups of employees, are developed in cooperation with leading national and international educational establishments. In addition, Rosneft constantly enhances its staff evaluation and benchmarking tools to ensure objective assessment of employees’ potential. The Company’s most capable specialists have an option to transfer to those divisions where they will be able to develop their potential to the utmost.

Corporate professional training and re-training programs developed jointly with the leading partner universities deserve special mentioning. For example, in cooperation with the Gubkin Russian University of Oil and Gas, the Company has designed and delivers four additional professional training programs, including “Oil and gas production”, “Economy and management in the oil and gas industry” “OHS specialist”, and “Environmental manager”.

In partnership with the Graduate School of Management at St. Petersburg State University, the Company delivers the Executive MBA training program. The program comprises 12 training modules, two of which are taught at foreign business schools: the Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (USA) and the Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway). The module-based training program “Effective company management: development of management competencies” aimed at corporate executives is also delivered jointly with the Graduate School of Management.

The corporate MBA program “International business in the oil and gas sector” is taught jointly with the International School of Economics and Law of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and Bodo Graduate School of Business (Norway).

In May 2010, an automated system for assessment of employee technical competencies and formation of individual professional development plans was commissioned. A total of 135 employees of the Rosneft headquarters and corporate research and design institutes received assessment using the system. The development of technical competency matrices and profiles for employees of the corporate headquarters (the upstream segment) was completed.

The Company takes efforts to further develop the corporate distance learning system. At present, the corporate library available to employees includes 49 distance learning courses. In the reporting year, a total of 4 thousand Company employees took one or more of these courses.

The distance learning courses offered to employees are based on the fundamental standards and policies of the Company. The courses cover such general areas as “Oilfield equipment and pipelines”, “New production technologies”, “Information technology”, and “Occupational and environmental safety”. The Company continues to design new courses reflecting its training priorities.