ExxonMobil's Exploration and Production operations offer a diverse array of career development opportunities in a global petroleum exploration and production effort. Our Research organization offers the opportunity to perform research in seeking new ways to find and recover petroleum supplies. A wide array of opportunities exist in both generalist and specialist positions.

• Formal Education
  In the first 2 years of employment, you will receive over 64 days of technical education designed to expose you to a variety of disciplines within the Geoscience arena. In years 3 through 5, over 68 days of technical training are designed to provide advanced training on a variety of concepts and applications in several areas. These are great opportunities to develop peer networks, interact with the company's subject experts, and be immersed in a collaborative learning environment.
• Mentoring
  Technical training is specific to your job assignment and is paced to coincide with your individual skill development. You'll be given specific work responsibilities from day one to get you up and running. Plus, you'll have a specific mentor to help "show you the ropes" and provide technical guidance and support.
• On-Site Education
  We'll also get you out of the classroom and on-site at some of the facilities where projects will be or are being developed so you can see first-hand the equipment and processes with which you'll be working.
• Non-Technical Training
  Another key aspect to your overall development is non-technical training aimed at increasing your personal effectiveness. You'll receive guidance in essentials like business practices, safety, ethics, profitability analysis, petroleum law, joint venture agreements, diversity and career stages.
• Early Career Development
  You'll quickly focus on developing core technical competencies and proficiencies (breadth and depth) with your initial job assignment. Once you're able to undertake routine tasks with limited supervision, your assignments may broaden into other technical areas -- often within the first 5 years of your career. After that, most people will start to focus on developing more technical depth in a particular area.
• Onward and Upward
  To continue to grow professionally, you'll want to continue to develop technical depth and apply your skills in a variety of settings and in more challenging situations. Your impact will extend beyond just doing your own work as you leverage your expertise through others. At the highest level of technical competency, you'll provide strategic direction to the organization and lead the company through a vision of where it needs to go. There may be opportunities to develop your supervisory and management skills as well. Ultimately, the skills you'll need to become a senior professional or senior manager require the highest levels of technical competence, business judgement, leadership and personal effectiveness.