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Overview: Building Skills for Your Future

When Training Magazine recently placed KPMG LLP on its Top 125 list, it honored the firm for the high quality of the programs we provide.

You can see that quality in innovative virtual engagement simulations and global training events, and in planning tools which help you choose from hundreds of courses and use them to pursue your personal career goals.

And formal training is only a part of developing our people at KPMG. The firm's investment in year-round career development resources is one of the many reasons Business Week Magazine has ranked KPMG among the Top 50 Places to Launch a Career for three years running.

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National & Global Programs

Every year, KPMG professionals attend national programs in exciting sites across the country. Every year we also offer our people global development opportunities including international engagements, rotations, and training.

Global training opportunities can come at any juncture of a KPMG career. For example, in 2008, some KPMG staff professionals new to the firm attended two weeks of training in Athens. Other associates attended the same program training in Toronto. Some senior associates completed a week-long global training program in Budapest. U.S new managers joined colleagues from around the world for a week of training in Montreal. And the list goes on.

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Resources Year-round

Even when you're not in a training course, the KPMG culture is brimming with resources to help you continue your learning. You'll find opportunities for developmental experiences including national and global rotations. You'll also find successful KPMG professionals willing to engage with you for one-on-one coaching and mentoring. And whatever your current role or area of interest, you're likely to find a vast array of information through KWorld, KPMG's unique and connective knowledge-sharing gateway.

If you're looking for a learning boost in a particular skill area, but don't have time for a full training program, KPMG also offers short, digestible "just-in-time" modules that range from practical refreshers on key audit tasks to a lively KLEARN OnDemand series of tips on core business skills such as effective client service and giving effective feedback.

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Audit Learning and Development

As an Audit professional, you'll have access to a wide range of learning and development programs and resources designed to help you grow through the various stages in your career. Your training will start with Pretty Liquid, the dynamic virtual engagement simulation at the core of Audit Fundamentals. In a graphically rich simulated client site accessible from your laptop, you'll be able to gain hands-on experience with key processes you may be called on to use on an actual engagement.

Audit Fundamentals is just the beginning of the Audit core curriculum. This curriculum blends e-learning with traditional classroom courses, offering an optimal combination of coursework you can digest at your own pace, and interactive learning that will expose you to the thoughts and experiences of your peers and more experienced KPMG partners and professionals.

• Advance Auditing for Associates offers associates entering their second year with the firm an introduction to the Integrated Audit
• In-Charge Auditor provides new senior associates a broader perspective on their evolving roles and responsibilities, and on the industries they serve
• Advanced In-Charge Seminar helps more experienced senior associates deepen their knowledge and begin to prepare for potential manager roles
• New Manager Training marks an important transition into new levels of accountability and influence: participants are challenged by a series of live simulated client and team situations they may be called on to face as new managers
• Partner Manager Training provides partners and managers the opportunity to continually refresh their technical knowledge in an evolving business world while deepening their internal network of relationships.

In addition to these large training programs, Audit partners and professionals also have access to just-in-time e-learning courses that connect a national audience in a virtual classroom, and a library of over 850 Web-based training courses available on demand. Training helps illuminate the concerns of clients in the industries they serve, the particulars of new regulations and legislation, and skills they can use to think strategically, manage effectively, and present with confidence to the leaders of the world's largest companies.

KPMG Tax Business School

As a Tax professional, KPMG offers you the training and resources you need to continuously develop your skills and experience. Your training will start with Taxcursion, the dynamic virtual engagement simulation at the core of Tax Fundamentals. Through this highly interactive simulation, you'll be able to gain experience with key processes you may be called on to use in working on a tax compliance engagement. The simulation will respond to your individual needs: when you hesitate, your simulated neighbor may pop his head over the cubicle wall to give you a tip, or a reference card may come flying off your bulletin board.

Tax Fundamentals is just the beginning of the KPMG Tax Business School curriculum. This curriculum, viewable at a glance through the Tax Training Navigator, blends e-learning with traditional classroom courses to offer an optimal combination of coursework you can digest at your own pace, and interactive learning that will expose you to the thoughts and experiences of your peers and more experienced KPMG partners and professionals.

• Tax Skills Seminar is an annual program designed to help tax associates and senior associates develop a broad-based knowledge of tax, and begin to focus more deeply on particular types of returns, clients, or areas of the tax code.
• New Manager Training marks an important transition into new levels of accountability and influence: participants are challenged by a series of live simulated client and team situations they may be called on to face as new managers.
• Tax Management Seminar offers Tax managers and partners the opportunity to choose from a range of elective courses and design a training program customized to their individual clients, responsibilities, and interests.

In addition to these large training programs, Tax partners and professionals also have access to just-in-time e-learning programs that connect a national audience in a virtual classroom, and a library of over 850 Web-based training courses available on demand. Training helps illuminate the concerns of clients in the industries they serve, the particulars of new regulations and legislation, and skills they can use to think strategically, manage effectively, and present with confidence to the leaders of the world's largest companies.

Advisory Learning and Development

KPMG's Advisory practice attracts talented professionals with a wide variety of skills and experience, and helps those professionals design Learning Plans customized to support their individual roles, responsibilities, and career goals.

In your first year as an Advisory professional, you'll be introduced to core KPMG methodologies and processes through the Advisory Fundamentals program. Within your first year, you'll also begin to build on this foundation, and engage with your people management leader and mentor in tailoring your ongoing learning plan.

This planning process is anchored by the Learning Paths Resource Site, which provides Recommended Learning Paths for a wide variety of roles and career levels, including courses that are strongly recommended for all professionals in a particular service group, and electives that may be chosen according to individual responsibilities, interests, and goals. Using the technology-enabled Learning Paths process, each Advisory professional can document a plan customized to his or her unique development needs.

Advisory professionals are encouraged to consider a wide range of skills when constructing their plans, from curricular areas including:

• Technical skills and knowledge specific to the service they provide
• Cross-Service skills and knowledge relevant across all service groups of the Advisory practice
• Core Business skills such as communication, facilitation, and relationship-building
• Industry depth, including the key terminology, processes, and critical issues of a client's industry
• Leadership capabilities, including management and strategic thinking
• Issues-Based training, on topics of current importance such as IFRS and Succeeding in Turbulent Times

Throughout a KPMG career, Advisory partners and professionals blend traditional classroom training with just-in-time e-learning programs that connect a national audience in a virtual classroom. In addition to these training events, KPMG Advisory professionals have open access to a library of over 850 Web-based training courses. Training helps illuminate the concerns of clients in the industries they serve, the particulars of new regulations and legislation, and skills they can use to think strategically, manage effectively, and present with confidence to the leaders of the world's largest companies.