Frequently Asked Questions
At NKT, building a career is centered around experiences, and a next step can take on many different forms; upward moves, lateral (sideways) moves, diagonal moves and sometimes even downward moves (can be downward & lateral, move done for developmental purposes).
We believe that you are on your own unique journey: you define your own unique destination that matches your strengths and potential. NKT will provide the best environment to develop in your current role and provide you with opportunities to gain experience in new roles – all that is needed to reach your destination.
At NKT, we would like to provide the best environment for employees to be successful, and to grow and develop along with the company. We encourage employees to seek experiences that can build skills, create learning opportunities, fulfill business needs, and enhance their career. A strong development plan goes beyond training and includes opportunities to test skills, learn from and connect with others.
As an individual, there are several ways that you can develop your career:
Develop your skills and potential:
- As part of the NKT Performance and Development cycle, you will have a continuous dialogue with your manager about what you’re working on, how you’re performing, and your development priorities and aspirations.
- To help drive your development, you can create a Personal Development Plan. There you can record your strengths, what areas you want to develop further, and the actions you will take to achieve this. See the reference guide on how to create a Personal Development Plan.
- There are several other tools available to support your development:
- Review our tools and development approach on LiNKT here.
- Ask for feedback from others via the Success Factors feedback feature ConNKT People@NKT Guideline (sharepoint.com)
- Develop a learning path with courses specific to your growth aspirations
- Explore all of the options available through LinkedIn Learning and the NKT Learning Portal
- Connect with others to get inspiration on development opportunities and experience.
Search and apply for internal roles:
As the owner of your career, we encourage you to explore current internal job opportunities within NKT. All new vacancies are posted on our internal career page.
Share more about you in your Employee Profile:
NKT is passionate about helping our employees develop and grow professionally. Your Employee profile In ConNKT allows you to formalize and share your mobility, skills, and experiences.
You can apply for another job at NKT when:
1. We recommend you have been in your current job for at least 12 to 24 months so that you have had time to fully develop your skills and experience in the role.
2. You meet most of the critical required skills & experiences as described in the vacancy. Non-critical skills and experiences are accepted to be built in the new role (with a clear development plan in place to grow in the job)
The above criteria’s are a general guideline to help employees and Managers in determining when an employee can apply for a new role. In exceptional cases an employee may move before one of these criteria is met if there is a compelling business reason and if your skills and experience meet the needs of the role. If you’re unsure, please discuss this with your Local HR.
At NKT we are committed to the personal and professional growth of our employees. We are supportive of internal mobility, as we believe that our employees can broaden their skill sets and understanding of our organization by working in different locations, Business Lines and Functions.
To explore our current job opportunities, visit our internal career page, where you can review open job opportunities across all of our Business Lines and Functions.
Please note:
- We advertise all open positions both internally and externally
- You can add a job alert on the our internal career page to get automatically notified when new vacancies within your area of interest are posted
How to access the internal career site?
You can access our internal career page through:
- Directly via the internal career site https://internal.careers.nkt.com/
- SuccessFactors Mobile App - accessing all job opportunities on your mobile at anytime, anywhere
How do you apply for another role?
Search for the role in the our internal career page . Click on “apply now”-button on the vacancy description page. Enter your CV and motivation. Ready? Click submit and you will become part of the Internal Selection process.
When applying we recommend you to inform your manager so that they can endorse your application and help you prepare for the selection process.
Once you have submitted your application the following steps will take place:
- CV review. The Recruiter will review your application and check if you and your experience matches most of the critical job requirements. If yes, you will be invited to the first interview phase. If not, you will receive a verbal feedback on the reasons why you did not proceed in the hiring process.
- Interview with Recruiter and Hiring Manager The first interview is often a pre-recorded video interview. If you proceed thereafter you will be invited to a deep interview with the Recruiter and the Hiring Manager. The purpose of this interview is to connect and to validate if you have right experience and competencies to be successful in the job.
- Looping in the Current Manager. If the deep interview is successful, you should at this stage speak to your Current Manager.
- Assessment (not applicable for all roles)
- If you proceed to the next step, you will be invited for an assessment. The assessments consist of a behavioral test and a follow-up interview. You might also be invited to take a cognitive test.
- Interview with the manager of the Hiring Manager and business Stakeholder (optional). The purpose of this interview is to add more perspectives to assess the match between you and the open position and for you to meet two critical stakeholders of the vacant job. Optionally, you could be invited to an informal coffee moment with 2 team members/peers as well to connect and get a view of the team.
- Feedback after an interview. The Recruiter will inform you about the outcome of their interview and next steps. If successful, you will be invited to the next step. If unsuccessful, the Hiring Manager will provide suggestions on what should be developed to increase readiness in the future. In this feedback session, you can collect more feedback from the Hiring Manager.
- Delivering feedback to candidates can sometimes take a bit longer depending on the number of candidates applying for a role, and the amount of interviews the hiring team needs to conduct. We endeavor to get back to all candidates who have interviewed for a role within at least one week of their interview. If you have not heard back within this timeframe, please reach out to your Recruiter.
- Job is offered. If you proceed to the final step, the Hiring Manager will share the job offer with you. Job Offers for employees will be in line with the NKT career framework and the start date follows the current manager and the hiring manager’s alignment on a transfer date. As a principle, this period would be normal notice period plus 1-2 months (unless legal requirements).
We seek to appeal to talent from diverse backgrounds and will always strive to ensure fair and unbiased selection processes. We are committed to objectivity, fairness, and inclusivity to ensure equitable opportunities for career growth and advancement based on past performance and future potential.
To achieve our commitment, we design selection processes accordingly, and mitigate bias by training recruiters and hiring managers in recognizing and managing bias.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, or other personal characteristics or distinguishing characteristics.
For more information on the NKT Recruitment Process please click here.
Please consider that there may be deviations in the process described in the career journey guideline due to locally specific regulations.
