Career development

We'd like to 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. Then add up all the different types of businesses in our company - and the challenges and opportunities become almost endless!

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 by putting their talents into practice.

Make your potential a reality. Start by taking the driver's seat during your annual Performance Review process. It's all about dialogue. So when you meet your manager for feedback on your performance, you can ensure that the opinions of your co-workers really matter. And to safeguard a fair process, you can calibrate your manager's opinion amongst his peers.

To make sure you get the guidance you need, we provide managers with learning opportunities to develop their coaching skills. Ask your manager for coaching in creating and planning actions to achieve your short-term and long-term career goals..

Personal development is crucial to our success as a company. So we support your growth with a range of developmental tools that build a roadmap towards your desired end goals. You get the best learning experience wherever you are in the world - starting with global learning programs that provide everyone at Philips equal opportunities for personal development.

These carefully designed programs provide you with broad and consistent development - at all levels of your career. You can also request 360-degree feedback, participate in development centers, and make use of online career tools. Enroll yourself online for training sessions and experience the ideal balance between e-learning and traditional classroom training.

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.

We use a practical four-step process to keep discovering new talent in the organization. We like to provide the right opportunities for our talented employees, so they can develop to their full potential. This Talent Identification process is consistently used throughout our company. It helps us to identify you as a "talent", to 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.