"Not Sales, But Marketing?"... LG Chem 'Career Week' Featuring Shin Hak-cheol and Kim Tae-ho

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#Employee A from the sales department, who is very interested in marketing tasks, attended the company's ‘Career Week’ this week. He listened to a special lecture by the management team, whom he usually regards as role models. He received mentoring from an executive in the same sales field and, at the same time, met with an in-house marketing expert in his area of interest to explore job suitability. Taking this opportunity, Employee A planned to establish a career development plan and apply for the company’s internal recruitment system in the future.

LG Chem announced that it will hold the ‘1st Career Week’ for four days starting from the 12th. Career Week is a week designed to help employees proactively design ‘opportunities to grow through work’ by inviting internal and external experts for lectures and mentoring sessions. LG Chem plans to operate Career Week once a year starting this year.

As instructors sharing career development insights, top executives including Vice Chairman Shin Hak-cheol, PD Kim Tae-ho, former Google Director Miki Kim, and external experts such as Kim Seon-tae, an official from Chungju City, will participate to share their success experiences and important moments that became turning points in their careers.

Shin Hak-cheol, Vice Chairman of LG Chem, is providing career coaching to employees at the '1st Career Week.'
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During the ‘Group Mentoring’ sessions, where employees meet in-house experts in the same job, and the ‘Talk+’ sessions, where they converse with in-house leaders from different jobs, about 30 practical leaders from executives to team leaders participate to pass on work know-how as senior colleagues and introduce other job groups and roles, helping employees explore their job suitability on their own.

Employees who establish career development plans through Career Week can later participate in the ‘Career Market’ system, which allows them to challenge various job experiences such as LG Chem’s ‘Internal Recruitment’ or ‘Open Career.’ Internal Recruitment, started in 2020, is LG Chem’s representative internal career development program that prioritizes hiring internal employees for departments with vacancies. Any office worker who has worked in their current team for more than two years can participate. Through this, about 300 people have successfully changed jobs over three years.

LG Chem employees are attending the '1st Career Week' career development workshop to discuss personal career development plans.
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Open Career is a system where individuals can continuously disclose their personal career and profile in the company’s HR system, similar to uploading a resume on a recruiting site, allowing other departments to proactively offer transfers. It is currently being piloted for the research and development organization, with plans to expand company-wide in the future.

Vice Chairman Shin, who participated in Career Week, said, “The moments when I challenged myself from engineer to sales, and from Korea to overseas, have led to my current growth,” and added, “We will spare no support so that employees can find the work they love and excel at, take on challenges, and grow together as members of a global science company.”

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