955 workers underwent some training at UC RUSAL’s Bogoslovskiy smelter in the first half of 2008. 158 people were able to upgrade their job evaluation categories, while 348 people attended further education courses. Besides, 104 people won in the local tour of UC RUSAL’s professional contest and 200 production training instructors took part in the professional development seminars, UC RUSAL’s press officer in the Urals Roman Lukichev reports.

‘The enterprise can now boast a highly efficient personnel professional training and development system. Bogoslovskiy smelter actually has a license allowing the plant to educate people in 88 professional fields, with very experienced trainers,’ he notes.

‘Thanks to the module system, the training now takes less time; in addition, they have a chance to fit in the company’s distance learning system and acquire additional computer skills,’ says UC RUSAL’s Bogoslovskiy smelter’s Personnel Director Tatiana Makarova.

‘This is a very productive way of improving on workers’ qualification and helping them to broaden their expertise. Our employees used the information from the programs offered through further education courses 245,000 times in June 2008, which was the greatest figure among all of UC RUSAL’s enterprises,’ she added.