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[[narrator] Diane Vavrasek spent eight months in Budapest.]
[I was really able to help bridge the communication gap]
[between the senior level leadership and the employees in Hungary]
[so they better understand why we were doing certain processes.]
[[narrator] Will Pearson became an HR manager just as the economy was tanking.]
[I got experience to support a group for the first time as a generalist in tough economic times.]
[[narrator] Sarah Condella worked as a lean manufacturing leader ]
[on the floor in a union plant.]
[It taught me a lot about how to get inside the hearts and minds of people]
[and understand from their perspective what we might be proposing.]
[[narrator] Margie Zyble supported a call center population.]
[It made me less afraid to take risks.]
[I did things on program that I wouldn't have necessarily done,]
[and then that gave me the freedom to take bigger risks once I graduated program.]
[[narrator] And Johnathan Lee has been driving recruitment and staffing of engineers]
[for GE Appliances Technology.]
[We need to bring in a lot of new technical talent into the business,]
[and I'm having a direct impact on that.]
[[narrator] As part of GE's Human Resources Leadership Program,]
[these young people are gaining real-world business experience,]
[contributing to GE businesses, and getting in line for HR leadership roles ]
[The GE HRLP program is a two-year program]
[consisting of three eight-month rotations.]
[[narrator] The benefits are far-reaching.]
[[Diane] The program means to me the opportunity to grow professionally ]
[and personally in ways that I couldn't have imagined.]
[You're definitely involved in decision making,]
[involved directly with the employees as well as the leadership,]
[and involved more in strategy than other companies.]
[The senior VP of HR in my business,]
[[HRLP - Jonathan - 1st Rotation]]
[he knows my name, he knows the work that I'm doing.]
[HRLP is great for giving you global exposure. [HRLP - Sarah - GE Healthcare]]
[Every six months, there is a global conference.]
[You get a chance to interact with people all over the world]
[[HRLP - Margie - GE Energy] ]
[that have very different perspectives.]
[[narrator] And what can you expect to get out of HRLP?]
[[Will] You're going to build a wonderful network,]
[you're going to really understand the different challenges facing each GE business.]
[[Jonathan] You really get a wide variety of experiences in a very short amount of time.]
[There's so much opportunity at GE.]
[I definitely feel like there is a focus on development.]
[You will be out of your comfort zone at times,]
[and you have to learn to be comfortable with that.]
[You look back in six months, you keep in touch with the people you met]
[and the relationships, and you start to really understand, "Hey, I did that. I'm proud of that."]
[[♪♪] [Jonathan] If you're a hardworking, ambitious individual]
[who is really passionate about HR and about being a talent champion,]
[and if you're really open to trying a lot of new, different things,]
[you'd be a perfect fit for HRLP.]
[[Will] I see a world of opportunity and limitless possibilities here.]
[[Margie] GE is a dynamic place to work. It's exciting.]
[We are really the future of the HR leadership in the company.]
