chill8 (10/9/2009)
I work at Ford Motor in Dearborn as a SQL DBA Team Leader. Basically we are on our own here as it pertains to our career development. I basically have been a Team Lead in some capacity since 2000. I am well educated, attaining a Masters degree back in 1999, but it really hasn't propelled my career much since then. I have come to the conclusion you have to totally invest the time and money outside of work to propel your career going forward. I am sometimes miffed why some people in the company advance much quicker than others. I would certainly like to see more people in our department get promoted.
Funny, I am at Kellogg Cereal Plant in Battle Creek so we are very near to one another. One of WK Kellogg's mantras is "I invest my money in people" and for just over 100 years it still continues to be that way. Kelloggs uses something called an IDP to form our own independent career path for the company.