Training & Personal Development at Jacobs Australia

The graduate development program is terrible. No one in my area knew the process or what I was supposed to do. It was all fumbling by myself. Even egtting it signed off/the next steps people were asking me, the graduate, what to do. I didn't know!

Onboarding, technical, safety, and management training is great! Lots of opportunities for continued learning. On the job training is also very helpful - people take time to teach and answer questions.

The company has a culture where senior people are generally happy to share knowledge to more junior staff and this helps a lot with on the job training. The company also offers formal training for technical skills, eg 12D.

The structured graduate deevelopment program is amazing and so much is learnt. It ensures that you gain exposure to other sides of the business such as operations, sales, development that you may not have exposure to in your technical role. I now have a lot of knowledge about the financial, project management and bid process side and is now an area I would one day like to move into.

More technical training opportunities would be ideal. More sharing of internal resources and internal training for technical disciplines would be beneficial

Jacobs has a very well developed training programme.

Whilst when I reach out, majority of the team will help me train and develop - due to how busy everyone is I don't always feel comfortable reaching out, a set fortnightly or monthly check in with my mentor would be useful

All personal development is at personal cost.

Jacobs template training - very useful, clear and concise Workbooks - adequate, only applicable to simple cases

could definitely be improved.

Informal training is good but would like if more technical formal sessions were undertaken

various training: inside the company itself: PM training, lunch and learn, etc. Outside the company: Jacobs paid the tuition fee for technical courses required for the job

So many processes that you never hear of or training for said processes even occur, but expected to use them. Conducted Audit training (which felt very non-applicable) and PM training.

When I applied for Jacobs, I thought I signed up to a graduate program that included training. So far I have not received this training.

A range of trainings are organized for the graduates.

only on the job experience, no official training or development programs specific to my role

Training as of now has only been project work related. No proper training program is there. It may be because of work load of Team but I guess a formal training program would be something to look for.

Mentoring programme is helpful. Formal training provided for varying areas of business you may be interested in.