Your IBM Learning program

Your IBM is a 12-month learning program that provides new employees with learning topics around corporate information, tools and resources necessary to help provide clarity needed to be successful at IBM. This program uses a blended learning model that has the following components:

• E-learning that is accessible to you right away
• 2 or 3 day Classroom orientation on or as close to start date as possible
• E-learning to be completed within your first
  four months at IBM

In addition to the Your IBM learning program, new employees will develop the IBM Foundational Competencies as part of their career development. Our values explain that every IBMer, no matter his or her job, should be focused on ensuring the success of our clients, on improving IBM and the wider world, making both better than we found them, and on extending our talent for building relationships based on trust and integrity. Through the IBM Foundational Competencies, we develop the characteristics and behaviours necessary for this values-based work culture.

These competencies set a common standard of excellence across the organization and form the basis of people development within IBM. They will also help you to focus your learning time on developing the characteristics identified -- and validated -- as being key to achieving success.

All of IBM's learning initiatives enable you to access information when you need it. Learn what you want, when you want, where you want...this is the strategy of On Demand learning. Every component has been designed to help you improve: in knowledge, in people connections, and in career direction. You'll even be able to personalize your learning path so that you can focus on the topics most critical to your success. So be sure to give yourself time to take advantage of Your IBM and all it offers