Competence and career development
A strong onboarding experience to welcome you
At K Group, onboarding supports new employees in becoming part of the work community and their role, while strengthening motivation, commitment and high-quality performance.
During onboarding, new employees receive feedback and are also encouraged to share their own. The goal is an open and supportive atmosphere where everyone feels welcome and an important part of the team.
Onboarding may include, for example:
- Shared onboarding sessions, such as the Welcome to K Group day and chain-specific onboarding materials
- Store- or site-specific onboarding, using tools such as the House Rules guide and other local practices
- Introductions to your own team and professional networks
- Online training and videos related to job roles and ways of working
- An onboarding checklists to support tracking progress
- Continuous support, including follow-up on onboarding progress with your manager, for example through one-to-one discussions
Developing skills is more than just training at K Group
The main responsibility for the development of our own competence rests with ourselves, and everyone should evaluate their own competencies with respect to the changing needs of working life. The supervisor's role is to steer your competence according to business needs, and a personal development plan is established annually for every employee in conjunction with the performance and development review.
We offer various models for career planning and support your development in multiple ways. Our guiding principle is that:
- most learning (70%) happens through learning on the job
- 20% comes from learning from others
- 10% consists of more traditional training
From career path to career map
Professional careers no longer advance on a single straight line based on systematic advancement to increasingly demanding tasks. Instead, working people of today experience a lot of lateral movement in the course of their careers. This is why we prefer to talk about career maps over career paths. Career maps involve accumulating competence in various jobs in different operations, providing every employee with a roadmap for moving ahead purposefully in their career. K Group employees have conventionally had long careers with us, and we want to support our employees in building diversified careers within the group.
Work and professional careers are facing major changes: jobs are changing, some of them disappearing and new ones emerging at a faster pace than before, and acquired competence also becomes outdated at an ever increasing pace. Therefore, the ability and the motivation to learn new things will become increasingly important alongside accumulating experience.
