Halliburton BELIT Project

Juliana Quinteiro

HALLIBURTON

Halliburton is one of the worlds largest providers of products and services to the energy industry.

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HALLIBURTON

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HALLIBURTON

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GLOBAL WORKFORCE ISSUES FACING HALLIBURTON

Multinational Company, based in more than 70 different countries around the globe Multicultural environment, more than 50.000 employees from diverse countries Employees intranet mainly in English Corporate systems fully in English: SAP, Halliburton.jobs, PPR, METTRO, HSM On-line training system with a wide variety of English content training A need to improve speaking, writing and Business English skills of the workforce Company intensive growth, with agressive workforce hiring activities World of Opportunities Internal Recruitment and worldwide Sucession Management

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LATIN AMERICA WORKFORCE ISSUES FACING HALLIBURTON

LA Region has 9 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Trinidad, Venezuela 3 different main languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English More than 7,000 employees Annual headcount increase of more than 10% in the last 3 years Before GlobalEnglish/BELIT implementation - different methodologies to assess candidates English skills across the region

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GLOBALENGLISH BELIT SOLUTION

Have a standard procedure for English Assessment within LA countries To determine which candidates have adequate English skills for particular positions within the company Improve the Recruitment and Selection process To determine how much additional English instruction might be needed for new employees Reduce the costs by have a single source providing English tests Have the tests applied at the Halliburton facility, by the HR Recruiter Have immediate results available with on-line reports and guarantee the confidentiality of the information
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WHY GLOBALENGLISH BELIT

Halliburton already had a global contract for e-learning English courses with GlobalEnglish Meets the technical requirements Offers correlation between available tests in the market (TOEIC, BULATS) Cost Efficient offer Possibility to have an integrated approach BELIT / CLS

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BELIT Business English Level Indicator Test

Halliburton is using BELIT for candidate assessment since November 2007

Total of 4.464 tests performed

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BELIT PROCESS

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BELIT X JOB
Required English proficiency skills based on the job level

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BELIT

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BELIT X CANDIDATES RANKING

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BELIT X SECOND LANGUAGE POLICY

Based on BELIT results, employees are encouraged to engage in English class, in case of improvement need.

All employees under Second Language Program non GlobalEnglish users need to be assessed in BELIT every 6 months to be entitled to a full reimbursment and to guarantee continuous learning.

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NEXT STEPS
Halliburton is also evaluating the BELITPlus tool, which will enable us to perform grammar and speaking assessment.
BELIT Sections
Listening Reading

BELITPlus
Listening Reading Grammar Speaking

Score Range Levels Scoring Duration

0-787 0-10 Computer Only 30 Minutes

0-1581 0-10 Computer + Human Scorers 52 Minutes

Halliburton is also studying a project to improve and expand CLS usage in Latin America Region
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THANK YOU!!!!

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