Perficient’s culture and success are defined by the best and brightest people in the industry – our colleagues.
Perficient has made a promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate its people, and that includes their career growth and professional development. In this second blog of our series celebrating our 2023 Top Workplaces USA award, we’re focusing on how Perficient and our colleagues are prioritizing and enabling Growth for Everyone.
Building a culture that champions the accomplishments of every individual, both personally and professionally, is incredibly important. Growth looks different for everyone, and we’re proud to offer professional development resources, training programs, and tools aimed at guiding every colleague on their path toward success. Growth for Everyone inspires all colleagues to reach their full potential. Listen to our colleagues as they share their experience advancing their careers at Perficient.
“You have the ability to go out there and grow your own skill set,” said Mwandama Mutanuka, managing director, Automation. “So, depending on how ambitious you are, the company is willing to invest in you by giving you mentors that work with you. Then you can go out there and build your own skill set.”
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A Variety of Growth for Everyone Resources to Support Every Colleague
Perficient continues to develop new and expand existing Growth for Everyone programs to help colleagues understand their potential and explore the opportunities ahead of them. Take a look at some of the professional and leadership development resources currently available for Perficient colleagues.
Career Paths is a resource colleagues can use to answer questions related to their career growth while outlining the stages to achieve their professional goals. With several dozen roles across our global company, Career Paths helps colleagues visualize a path forward in their career progression and what skills they should focus on if they’re curious about moving to a different role at Perficient.
Leadership Corner offers all colleagues an opportunity to hear insightful tips, tricks, and advice from leaders across our global company. Updated monthly, Leadership Corner features topical videos and articles that colleagues can use to accelerate their career growth. Colleagues can also share their best leadership advice for inclusion in the next month’s edition of Leadership Corner.
Consultant Curriculum is a professional development program specifically created for Technical and Business Consultants consisting of self-paced programming designed to help build important skills for professional growth. Colleagues are grouped into cohorts and complete role-based courses, instructional videos, articles, and assignments outlining the soft skills needed for their next role.
Learning to Lead is a program for individual contributors interested in exploring career growth in people leadership. This professional development program groups participants into cohorts as they complete modules, monthly training sessions, and individual assignments that discuss leadership best practices.
Leading With Impact is the flagship program for new/newer global people leaders that includes curriculum focused on building leadership capabilities and fostering relationships with direct reports. Through this program, nominated and chosen participants spend six months understanding what it takes to be a successful leader while growing new skills to bring to their team.
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In addition to the resources above, colleagues can also use our Career Development Planning Workbook to better understand themselves, explore career options at Perficient, and set strategic, attainable career goals. All Perficient colleagues also have access to Perficient Academy, our on-demand learning platform with training materials they can access to develop their skills at their own pace. With content created by Perficient subject matter experts and third-party partners like Adobe, Salesforce, and Udemy, colleagues can find training material that match their professional interests.
Perficient colleagues can also develop their leadership and project management skills by joining a committee in one of our three companywide Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Women in Technology, Perficient’s Giving ERG, Perficient’s Cultural Connections ERG.
“Perficient gives you all the tools to grow and to set up your own career path,” said Lorena Fernandez, project manager, Argentina. “I think it’s awesome. I’ve been able to cover different roles and different positions during my time here. I can lead the business from a different perspective while interacting with so many people. You learn in each path that you make. You’re learning a lot, and you’re growing in your personal and Perficient life.”
We place our colleagues in the driver’s seat of their personal career journey. Interested in learning more about Growth for Everyone and what makes Perficient a top workplace? Read our Life at Perficient blog to learn how our colleagues are developing their careers and discover the unique culture that shapes Perficient.
We strongly value the opinions, ideas, and perspectives from our colleagues around the world. Read the next blog in our series celebrating our 2023 Top Workplaces USA award and discussing the Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging pillar of Perficient’s People Promise.
Perficient continually looks for ways to champion and challenge our workforce, encourage personal and professional growth, and celebrate the unique culture created by the ambitious, brilliant, people-oriented team we have cultivated. These are their stories.
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