Young Professionals

Attracting and hiring talented professionals is one of the Gazprom Neft’s top HR priorities. The Company begins its search for young, dynamic, and career-oriented prospective employees by visiting colleges and universities.

Gazprom Neft does its best to form talent pools for the oil and gas sector by offering competitions to school graduates in regions where the Company operates to enroll in higher education institutions. The Company’s partners in this initiative include Russia’s leading higher education institutions:

As part of this initiative, the Company offers students pre-graduation internships with Gazprom Neft companies where students can combine theory and practice and take their first steps in the oil profession. The best students who demonstrate their outstanding potential during these internships are invited to join Gazprom Neft after graduation. In 2010 the Company recruited 309 graduates via this route.

Gazprom Neft also launched an Adaptation programme for its employees which includes training courses and the appointment of a personal mentor for each young professional. A three-year development programme can help employees maximise their potential and choose the best career path.

In 2010, the Step into the Future programme for young professionals was introduced. This programme allows each young employee of Gazprom Neft to participate in training aimed at competence development. As part of the Step into the Future programme, the second Corporate Rally of Young Professionals took place near Moscow last year.