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For each of these young people, their current job is one of four that they’ll have in just two years at GE. The job rotations are an integral part of GE’s Operations Management Leadership Program (OMLP). OMLP develops talent in the operations area and grooms the future leaders of the company by giving them challenging six-month assignments. As OMLPs, they’re getting exposure to senior management and becoming part of a network that can last an entire career. Best of all, in OMLP, you get to work for the world-class brand known as GE.

OMLP is a two-year program consisting of four six-month rotations that allow members to build leadership and functional skills through challenging rotational assignments and world-class training. Typical rotations include one or more of the following: Manufacturing Shop Operations Supervisor (leading a manufacturing team in the production of products), Sourcing/Materials (supervising suppliers to improve product quality and negotiate price) and Technical (Lean Leader/ Manufacturing Engineering/Quality/Process Engineering) (improving efficiency of supply chain management through LEAN/cost reduction). Program members are also involved in GE's strategic initiatives-including GE's drive for LEAN Six Sigma.

To apply visit http://www.ge.com/omlp.

“The main thing I learned about leadership is that one must display confidence to lead. Getting up in front of forty to eighty people and speaking is harrowing enough as it is, but to do so under the previously mentioned conditions was even worse. Facing the fact that in all reality the students should have been teaching me, I noticed that I was taken more seriously the more forward and seriously I acted. Although I initially was quiet and put a disclaimer into every assertion I made, by acting confident and competent I impressed my boss and those I taught to. Even as I was the youngest and most unexperienced in the group, I still felt like I was an important part of the intership and pivotal in many of the programs we developed.”

The Information Management Leadership Program starts with a month-long boot camp at GE’s new tech center in Michigan. Then, it’s on to the first rotation – building the networks and getting the exposure that pave the way to a leadership career. At the same time, program participants gain valuable skills and experience. So, what does it take to make it as an IMLP? A passion for technology – and more. Find out how you can share in the pride of being part of one of the top brands in the world.

The Information Management Leadership Program and IMLP internships are key entry points for information technology professionals in GE. This program is designed to attract high-potential candidates with a passion and aptitude for technology and to further develop their technical, leadership and business skills as they transition from academia to the working world.

To apply visit http://www.ge.com/imlp.

“From May 23rd to June two other cadets and I took part in an AIAD at GE’s Crotonville campus. The corporate university at Crotonville is the oldest of its kind, teaching GE employees essential skills for furthering their career and becoming better leaders. Our job as West Point cadets was to introduce the students to the military’s style of leadership. I initially thought that the practices considered standard in the army would be foreign and new to the corporate world, but in reality I soon found while attending Foundations of Leadership that many of the problems in leadership are the same and many of the same processes set in place to prevent problems exist in both corporate and military leadership styles.”