John Swire & Sons Benefits FAQ

Pros

Great exposure, good staff benefits

Cons

No career prospect, conservative senior management

Pros

Opportunity to work internationally throughout Asia Lots of training (entirely soft skills though) Opportunities to build relationships with senior management Good benefits - housing, relocation, medical insurance Amazing work life balance

Cons

No commercial responsibility given within first 3-5 years Lots of learning by osmosis and minute taking Very limited transferrable skills - trainees are too generalist to be of much use to other organizations Poor incentive scheme rewards slackers Stale pool of management talent where most people are from the same background

Advice to Management

Give management trainees real jobs with commercial responsibility. Year-long rotations for a period of 3 years is too long and stunts development,

Pros

Good employee benefits Decent working environment Friendly co-workers

Cons

Long processing time Big/ complex company

Pros

Good atmosphere and management ethic

Cons

Not so good for holiday and time off

Pros

good medical & retirement benefits

Cons

less chance to promote to another grade