Career development

Let us touch your life - by providing you with ongoing opportunities and a dynamic growth path during your career at Philips. Imagine learning from an incredibly diverse group of colleagues, managers, and mentors. Add to this the many different types of businesses in our company. All in all, you will enjoy a wide range of challenges and opportunities during your career.

In addition, you can count on guidance from our various best-in-class Human Resource processes. After all, we like to take care of our talent - it's part of our development culture and our company values. And we stimulate our employees to take responsibility in putting their talents into practice.

At least once a year you will have meetings with your manager in which you discuss your performance and development. In this meeting, you review your performance of the past year and plan your contribution for the coming year. Also, you discuss how you can develop within your current role and how you grow to a next role. During the year, your manager will guide you in improving your performance by providing feedback and coaching.

Ask your manager for coaching in creating and planning actions to achieve your short-term and long-term career goals. To make sure you get the guidance you need, we provide managers with learning opportunities to develop their coaching skills. At management level you can also request 360-degree feedback, where you calibrate your own leadership performance among your peers and leaders.

Personal development is crucial to our success as a company. Make your potential a reality. Take the driver's seat in getting the support for your growth with the range of developmental tools that build a roadmap towards your desired end goals. Get the best learning experience wherever you are in the world - starting with the Generic and Functional Core Curricula. These are sets of global learning programs that provide everyone at Philips equal opportunities for personal development. Enroll yourself online for the global learning programs and experience the ideal balance between e-learning and traditional classroom training.

These carefully designed programs provide you with broad and consistent development - at all levels of your career and according to the function you are in. Furthermore you can take full advantage of online career tools. Once you have been identified as "talent", you will also have the opportunity to participate in development centers (see Talent identification).

Our annual management development review process is an integral part of succession planning for our top positions, and ensures a pipeline of management talent for Philips' future. Our Human Resources departments review teams all over the world, giving managers broad insight into the strengths and needs of each group as a whole. With these insights, managers can identify ways to accelerate individual careers while supporting overall business goals.

Talent identification

We use a practical four-step process to continue discovering new talent in the organization. We believe it is important to offer optimal opportunities to our talented employees, so they can develop to their full potential. This Talent Identification process is used consistently throughout our company to create the pipeline of potentials for top positions. The process helps us identify you as a "talent", find the right place for you within the company, discover your personal growth challenges, and find out how Philips can bring out the best in you.