Walmart acaba de anunciar un programa “acelerado”, y realmente creo que quieren copiarlo

Walmart acaba de anunciar un programa “acelerado”, y realmente creo que quieren copiarlo

Esta es una historia sobre Walmart, el reclutamiento y un nuevo programa que se destaca precisamente porque Walmart es la empresa que lo está poniendo en práctica.

Comencemos con algo de historia y una observación. Independientemente de lo que piense sobre Walmart, vale la pena señalar que el director ejecutivo actual, Doug McMillon, comenzó en Walmart como empleado de un campamento de verano, ganando $6.50 por hora.

Después de la universidad y un MBA, regresó como asistente del gerente de la tienda antes de ascender de rango. Él no está solo; la CEO de Walmart EE. UU. comenzó como un empleado por horas, por ejemplo, y el El CFO de la empresa trabajó en Walmart durante 15 años. antes de ser ascendido a C-suite.

No es sólo en la parte superior tampoco. El año pasado, el New York Times informó que “más del 75 por ciento de los gerentes de las tiendas de Walmart en EE. UU. comenzaron como trabajadores por hora”. Walmart mismo da un número similar.

Compare eso con Amazon, que se centró en reclutar ejecutivos de primera línea “malos e inteligentes” recién egresados ​​de la universidad y prefirió tener mucha rotación entre sus empleados de bajo nivel, según el mismo informe, citando al exvicepresidente de recursos humanos de Amazon, David Niekerk. .

Ahí está tu contexto. Y es por eso que Walmart es nuevo Universidad2Carrera El programa anunciado a principios de este mes me llamó la atención.

A partir de este verano, Walmart está reclutando nuevos graduados universitarios (aquellos dentro de los 12 meses posteriores a la graduación, incluidos aquellos que ya pueden estar trabajando en las tiendas como empleados actuales) en un nuevo programa de canalización de administración que ofrece la posibilidad de un salario muy saludable y la responsabilidad implica un corto período de tiempo.

Comienzan en un puesto de administración de nueva creación llamado “Entrenador emergente” que paga $65,000 al año con el objetivo de promover a estos jóvenes graduados a directores de tiendas Walmart en solo dos años, con un salario anual promedio de $210,000 dólares.

“Hemos trabajado en estrecha colaboración con varios cientos de universidades para atraer a más de 300 estudiantes universitarios actuales y alrededor de 600 graduados universitarios recientes”, me dijo un portavoz de Walmart después de que le pedí más detalles, y agregó que anticipan que el “programa acelerado” se llenará ” alrededor del 25 por ciento” de los roles de liderazgo”.

Bueno, no sé tú, pero yo no ganaba ni cerca de $210,000 al año en salario dos años después de terminar la universidad (incluso ajustando la inflación). Probablemente tampoco habría considerado buscar un puesto de gerente minorista en una empresa como Walmart, incluso si hubiera sabido que había uno.

Pero cuando investigué un poco más sobre Walmart y McMillion y la cultura de contratación de la empresa, encontré una designacion de lo que dijo McMillion durante un viaje a charlas con estudiantes de la Universidad de Stanford en 2015, poco después de asumir el cargo de director ejecutivo de Walmart.

En resumen, parecía que no tenía miedo de contratar a jóvenes que tal vez nunca hubieran considerado trabajar en Walmart:

“Lo de la puesta en marcha suena genial. Pero no he oído nada más desafiante que lo que estamos tratando de hacer.

Si quiere algo duro, intente tomar una empresa de 52 años de este tamaño y cambiarla. Esto es difícil. …

Entonces, si quieres trabajar en Walmart, llámame”.

Avancemos rápidamente al mercado laboral actual, con el desempleo cerca de su nivel más bajo en la historia, millones de empleados que dejan sus trabajos cada mes para encontrar pastos más verdes y las empresas que se quejan de que es difícil encontrar personas que los animen a solicitar puestos de trabajo.

A los ojos de Walmart, dudo que el momento pudiera haber sido mucho mejor.

Solo al prometer estabilidad, crecimiento y recompensas financieras significativas, Walmart hace una oferta bastante intrigante aquí.

Y aunque no todos los nuevos “aspirantes a entrenadores” eventualmente ascenderán de rango para convertirse en vicepresidentes de Walmart (o tal vez en CEO de Walmart algún día), parece que envolverlo todo de esa manera ha funcionado bastante bien.

Todo esto nos deja con una gran pregunta: ¿es esto algo que la gente de otras empresas podría emular?

Porque si puede predecir los grandes roles que querrá desempeñar dentro de unos años, incluso en una escala más pequeña, y descubrir cómo ayudar a las personas que son nuevas en la fuerza laboral a prepararse y crecer para que califiquen, es suena como una idea inteligente para copiar el programa de Walmart.

Por cierto, McMillion no tiene tantos pares en términos de directores ejecutivos actuales de Fortune 500 que comenzaron desde abajo en su empresa y se abrieron camino hacia arriba. Pero una que a menudo se menciona al mismo tiempo es Mary Barra de GM.

Si desea ver un perfil de LinkedIn interesante, el suyo comienza en la década de 1980, cuando fue pasante de 18 años en la empresa y abarcó 12 promociones y casi 40 años antes de que terminara como directora ejecutiva y presidenta.

Piénselo, aunque es una industria completamente diferente, el programa que llevó a Barra a GM es filosóficamente similar al nuevo programa de Walmart.

Aquí vamos, caso cerrado. Cópialos a ambos.

Las opiniones expresadas aquí por los columnistas de Heaven32 son propias y no de Heaven32.

reported that \"more than 75 percent of managers in Walmart's U.S. stores started as hourly employees.\" Walmart itself cites a similar figure. \n Contrast that to Amazon, which focused on recruiting \"'wicked smart' frontline managers straight out of college,\" and preferred to have lots of turnover among low-level employees, according to the same report, citing Amazon's former H.R. vice president, David Niekerk. \n There's your context. And it's why Walmart's new College2Career program, which it announced earlier this month, jumped out at me. \n Starting this summer, Walmart says it's recruiting recent college graduates (those within 12 months of graduation, including those who might already be working as current store associates), for a new management pipeline program that holds the possibility of a very healthy salary and responsibility in a short period of time. \n They'll start in a newly created management job called \"emerging coach,\" paying $65,000 a year, with the goal of promoting these recent graduates to Walmart store managers -- with an average annual salary of $210,000 -- within just two years. \n \"We worked closely with several hundred colleges to attract over 300 current college students and around 600 recent college grads,\" a Walmart spokesperson told me aHeaven32er I asked for more details, adding that they expect the \"accelerated program\" to fill \"roughly 25 percent of management roles.\" \n Now, I don't know about you, but I wasn't making anywhere near a $210,000 annual salary, two years out of college (even adjusting for inflation). I also probably wouldn't have thought of looking for a retail management pipeline position at a company like Walmart, even if I had known one existed. \n But in researching a bit more about Walmart and McMillion and the company's recruiting culture, I came across a description of what McMillion said during a trip to talk with students at Stanford University in 2015, just aHeaven32er he took over as Walmart CEO. \n In short, he sounded like he wasn't afraid to recruit young people who might never have thought of working at Walmart before: \n
\"The startup thing sounds cool. But I haven't heard of one yet that is more challenging than what we're trying to do. \n If you want hard, try to take a 52-year-old business that's this size and change it. That's hard. ... \n So if you want to work at Walmart, give me a call.\"
\n Fast-forward to today's job market, with unemployment at almost its lowest point in history, millions of employees leaving their jobs each month for greener pastures, and companies complaining that it's hard even to get people even to apply for positions. \n In Walmart's eyes, I doubt the timing could possibly be much better.  \n Simply by promising stability, growth, and significant financial rewards, Walmart makes a pretty intriguing sales proposition here.  \n And while not every brand-new \"emerging coach\" will wind up rising through the ranks to become a Walmart store manager (or heck, maybe Walmart CEO, someday), it seems that packaging it all like this has already worked quite well. \n All of which leaves us with one big question: Is this something people could replicate in other businesses?  \n Because if you can predict the big roles you'll want to fill a few years from now--even on a smaller scale--and figure out how to help people who are newer to the workforce to prepare and qualify for them, it sounds like a smart idea to copy Walmart's program. \n By the way, McMillion doesn' have too many peers in terms of current Fortune 500 CEOs who started at the bottom at their company and worked their way up. But one who is oHeaven32en mentioned in the same breath with him is Mary Barra of GM. \n If you want to see an interesting LinkedIn profile, hers starts in the 1980s when she was an 18-old intern at the company, and stretches through 12 promotions and nearly 40 years before topping it all off as CEO and chairman. \n Come to think of it, while it's an entirely different industry, the program through which Barra joined GM is philosophically similar to the new Walmart program. \n There you go, case closed. Copy them both. 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