The refinery lays a lot of stress on personnel policy because it helps with staff development, effective management, and creating a cohesive team of professionals that share common corporate values. At the Standartmunai LLP, young people under 30 make up one-third of the 500 employees. Every new employee at the plant holds a more advanced professional degree. The average age of refinery employees is 37 years old.

The effectiveness of the activity is greatly influenced by the ability of Standartmunai LLP staff to react quickly to changing market needs in order to achieve the enterprise’s established strategic goals and objectives. Consequently, recruiting new staff is one of the main goals of Standartmunai LLP’s personnel policy. In order to achieve the best possible balance between employee renewal and retention, the Standartmunai LLP implemented rules for competitive personnel selection. These rules offer a transparent system for the recruitment, selection, and adaptation of personnel in accordance with the needs of the refinery.

The three necessary selection phases—testing, a structural unit interview, and a panel interview at the refinery competition committee—must be completed by applicants in order to be admitted. The hiring process is automated, and the flow of resumes is transparent at every level thanks to the “Electronic Recruiting” information system.

To help the employed workers adjust, Standartmunai LLP has devised an adaptation program that expedites the process of joining the labor collective, facilitates the adoption of established norms of relationships, and helps with acquiring the system of professional knowledge and skills. Senior employees, managers, and experts have been placed in a personnel reserve, and the procedures for their internship, training, and certification have been set. Regular updates are made to the personnel reserve.

As part of its staff development program, the company provides training, retraining, and advanced training to its employees. All of the plant’s workshops and complexes have classrooms available for theoretical training, and the training center actively participates in the training process, creating the ideal environment for the implementation of the staff development program. Additionally, it is equipped with state-of-the-art teaching aids, computer training facilities, multimedia training facilities, and innovative tools for technological processes.

Standartmunai LLP is conscious that the younger staff members who are taking over from the veterans will be responsible for both the company’s bright future and the preservation of human and industrial heritage. As such, particular attention is paid to replacing the company’s current workers with young professionals, recent college and university graduates, who can swiftly pick up new skills and adapt to new technology. More than thirty percent of new hires are young specialists every year. During the hiring process, a mentor is selected for each young expert from among the highly qualified plant employees who undergo specialized training. Young professionals are introduced to the company’s corporate culture during an annual ceremony known as “The Oil Refiners Initiation.