LG International Conducts
‘Training to Overseas Investment Corporation’ for Staffs
- 6 nights and 7 days of schedule at the coal mine and palm plantation in Indonesia; special training for second-year staffs
- Aims to foster personnel with field sense … advancing their self-respect and sense of belonging to the company
On May 1st, LG International confirmed that it carried out a training program to overseas investment corporation specifically for second-year staffs so that they can understand the project sites and obtain work experiences.
This training was done in Indonesia for 6 nights and 7 days from April 22nd. Starting from the MPP coal mine development in 2008, LG International has regularized the projects in Indonesia. Since then, LG International expanded its resource business by continuously securing the management of palm plantation and GAM coal mine. In August 2015, it extended the business to the private hydroelectric power plant development project in northern Sumatra in order to actively take part in the infrastructure business in Indonesia.
A total of 14 personnel who joined the company in 2016 were divided into teams to visit GAM coal mine and PT.PAM plantation in Indonesia, and had direct experiences and tours to the field works of the whole production process of coal and palm oil.
Lee Jaewon, a staff in Power Project Team, stated: “I could feel the company’s status that it is promoting resource and infrastructure development projects in the global market, and this experience was a great help for me to acknowledge the importance of the fields and to improve business insight.”
Since 2009, LG International has been administering training programs for staffs to visit major overseas corporation including China, Indonesia and other countries, and about 250 staffs have participated so far.
Moon Hyunjin, head of LG International Human Resources Management Team, said “We are making an effort to promote competent personnel by constructing internal education systems that aim to systematically develop abilities necessary for each position,” and further claimed that “To be specific, in the case of the overseas investment corporation training program, the staffs have high participation satisfaction because it is possible to develop the field sense of major projects and understand business works.”
Meanwhile, LG International is supporting new employee training where new employees and staffs can learn basic skills about their duties, one-to-one mentoring and other personnel exchange programs for easy adaptation of employees to their duties and the organization. Also, it offers various opportunities to enhance business professionalism by establishing in-company education programs about business planning and development, etc. (The end)
[Picture 1] LG International staffs visiting the GAM coal mine are showing passionate spirit on the field in Indonesia.
[Picture 2] LG International staffs participating in the overseas investment corporation training program are listening
to the explanations about the business at the control room in the Indonesia GAM coal mine.
[Picture 3] LG International staffs participating in the overseas investment corporation training program are listening
to the explanations about the mining plan along with checking the ground plan at the Indonesia GAM coal mine field.