Continuous Professional Development

Collaboration and learning through your everyday work are the principal ways of learning at Gofore. Daily teamwork in multidisciplinary teams assists in finding the most suitable solutions for both the challenges of customer projects and other complex situations encountered in consulting work. Work that provides sufficient professional challenge is closely linked to Gofore’s core work principles, which include taking responsibility for one’s own work, feedback practices, and a culture of helping others.

Taking responsibility also extends to the development of your professional skills. However, you are not alone in this; your People Leader will be there to guide and support you in the right direction, ensuring that your expertise remains in demand both now and in the future.

At Gofore, learning and professional development comprise three key areas: learning by doing, learning together, and formal training. With these, we aim to ensure that your value in the job market grows. In addition to deep expertise, we also encourage broadening your skillset, ensuring you have plenty of work as a consultant and that your projects are sufficiently challenging.

Learning by doing

Most learning happens in daily work

At Gofore, being a consultant entails expectations of professional growth and adaptability, self-management, and recognising one’s own expertise. The majority of learning takes place in day-to-day work within customer projects by applying knowledge in practice, experimenting, making mistakes, and giving and receiving feedback.

As a consulting company, we participate in a wide variety of client projects, which provide an excellent opportunity to develop your skills through hands-on experience. This is also known as the most effective way to learn.

In the one-to-ones, you discuss your wishes and goals with your People Leader. We aim to meet your expectations through customer projects and business needs whenever possible.

Learning together with own community

Your colleagues are always there to support and inspire your professional growth and success in various ways.

At Gofore, you will strengthen your expertise in an inspiring community where collaboration between specialists and diverse client projects creates a unique learning environment. Our goal is that knowledge sharing at Gofore knows no boundaries, and that as a work community, we can make the most of our multidisciplinary team of experts.

We value the power of networks and communities equally. In your own capability team and in other Gofore expert groups, you will have the opportunity to share and develop your skills, participate in engaging discussions, and create new solutions alongside other professionals.

At Gofore, learning new things is not just an opportunity—it’s a part of our everyday life.

Training to build theoretical basis for a new skill

Training programs, courses and other macrolearnings spark new knowledge and serve as theoretical basis to build new skills.

The ability to apply recently learned skills in practice is crucial for internalising and retaining them in long-term memory. For this reason, you will plan, together with your People Leader, the courses and training sessions that suit your career path and current situation. In addition to external courses and training sessions, we offer a variety of internal training opportunities to meet the development needs of all employees.

Through Gofore Academy, we provide training in essential consulting skills, which are key in client work and reflect our values.

Expertly crafted skills and capability learning paths within the Academy are designed by Gofore professionals to empower colleagues in acquiring and developing skills relevant to their current roles or future positions. We have also established numerous partnerships with external training providers, further diversifying our learning opportunities. Additionally, we utilize various online learning platforms that provide top-rated and engaging courses.

In addition to training opportunities, we have a certification bonus system in place. Completing certain certifications that enhance both your skills and support our capabilities can earn you a bonus!

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Be the culture you want to be surrounded by

The work community, and therefore also Gofore as a company, is developed by the efforts of all Gofore people. We support the development of experts in a versatile way, taking individual needs into account. We care!

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