My Main Reason for Joining Shell Was Because of the Truly Global Environment

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I joined Shell because it had a good reputation as an employer and also because of its scale and magnitude

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which give an awful lot of opportunities for doing different roles within one organization.

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My main reason for joining Shell was because of the truly global environment,

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and some of the biggest projects in the planet are executed within this company.

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The goal of the It organization in Shell is pretty robust. We enable business strategies across the whole

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enterprise, we link very closely with the technology strategies and the the businesses count on us to exploit

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emerging and new technologies day after day.

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We have an arm that focuses explicitly on innovation and competition, and this includes our IT R&D labs

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where we create unique Shell technology solutions.

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The way Shell invests in their people is by offering global careers, by offering development opportunities,

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good coaching, by offering people the ability to work with multiple cultures in different countries.

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It's just an exciting, very vibrant community.

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Over the 9 yrs I’ve been at Shell, I’ve never felt more wanted and I’ve never felt more challenged than I do today.

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By having the value of respect for people I can achieve more, I can inspire more.

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Because Shell is such a wide, large enterprise we also have an incredible large footprint; so we are in lots

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of geographies, in lots of different technologies, in lots of different businesses.

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We work from exploration to production to manufacturing to supply to trading into our consumer businesses in retail.

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So on a day to day basis we need to think and interact from extreme upstream all the way to our retail customers.

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My role is to develop a communication framework for hosting and storage.

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I am a finance applications team lead.

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I am the risk lead in central Information Risk Management team.

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We work with some of the best IT infrastructure and application suppliers in the world.

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We have an incredibly powerful collaboration with our suppliers that allows us to build solutions time after time.

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Driving alignment in a cultural world where everybody is different, everybody has different opinions,

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and when you're working with the best thinkers in the world, it can be quite challenging.

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I have colleagues from Malaysia, India, Netherlands, London, Australia, US

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pretty much everywhere and that’s what makes the experience so rich.

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So success for me comes from knowing that I’ve delivered a solution, I've delivered a strategy or

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delivered day to day to the business.

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And then the other part of success is the impact you have on others and I think that probably could be

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the most important and lasting impact.

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I am part of a bigger picture and that bigger picture is helping driving the IT strategy.

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The journey is sometimes the exciting part of getting to the destination.

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Being able to run marathons as opposed to sprints.

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Networking and people.

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Found it an exciting place to be.

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I think opportunities are endless...

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...and i think that is pretty special.