Career Development at Norfolk Southern

At Norfolk Southern, our investment in your career development goes beyond recruitment. Once you become a member of the Thoroughbred team, we offer you resources and opportunities designed to help you achieve your personal and professional goals.

It starts with a corporate culture that values the diversity of our people as a major strength of the organization. We have a strong tradition of promoting from within and we want to provide an environment that encourages all our people to grow and to contribute their unique talents.

Part of that is training. Norfolk Southern operates a state-of-the-art technical training center just outside Atlanta. Our employees are eligible to enroll in instructor-led management skills workshops as well as to participate in a wide variety of courses offered online. The company sponsors management development programs for selected employees in partnership with the business schools of the universities of Tennessee and Virginia. Norfolk Southern also offers employee educational assistance, in the belief that employees and the company benefit when employees further their education.

Mentoring also plays in role in supporting people at Norfolk Southern. A formal mentoring program fosters employee development and helps transfer knowledge from one generation of organizational leaders to the next.

Norfolk Southern enables people to plan for career advancement. We have a long history of promoting from within. Through CareerTrack, the centerpiece of our internal sourcing strategy, employees have an opportunity to submit their resumes and indicate their career preferences online. This is the primary way we identify and evaluate candidates for management jobs. CareerTrack has significantly improved our ability to match employee qualifications and interests with job opportunities.