How did Alstom support your career progression and helped you develop?

HI Carole, career progression and development can look very different from site to site.

In Copenhagen, where I work, our office is quite small in size compared to the other Alstom sites around us in Europe (250 people) and the majority of the workforce are engineers working in different disciplines like Design, Installation, Quality, Test and Commissioning, Validation... As such there is lot of opportunities to move transversally from one discipline to the other but there are not enough opportunities for everyone to move "up" may that be as a team leader, technical leader or in terms of project responsibility. So if that is what you want to do, you sometimes have to be flexible and mobile. You might have to widen your research scope to projects and position that are not at the epicentre of your map and to other Alstom sites.

In my experience timing also does a lot for promotions and internal mobilities (you kind of have to be at the right place at the right time, and your name has to be known by the right people) which sometime leaves you with a bit of a defeated and powerless feeling. But it also forces you to reinvent yourself and learn to claim the credit and recognition that is due to you in order to be seen and have a shot at the jobs you want.

I hope this helps :)