In an unique interview, Dave Mount and Henry Shurlds, companions of Louisiana-based vitality recruitment agency OneSource Skilled Search, have outlined to Rigzone what oil and fuel corporations search for when hiring for skilled/technical positions.
“Massive corporations/main exploration/manufacturing corporations usually search for candidates with the very best degree of educational efficiency, i.e. prime 25 p.c of their lessons, or having minimal GPAs of three.3-3.5 or higher with summer season internship expertise at oil and fuel working corporations,” the OneSource companions instructed Rigzone.
“Levels usually sought out embrace engineering levels in petroleum, mechanical, chemical, electrical and civil engineering. Geoscience levels minimal usually are grasp’s levels in geology or geophysics,” they added.
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“On the monetary facet different diploma applications would come with land administration, accounting, economics, finance, and logistics/provide chain,” they continued.
Mount and Shurlds instructed Rigzone that unbiased exploration/manufacturing corporations usually search for expertise with both different unbiased oil and fuel working firm expertise or main oil and fuel firm expertise.
“We usually see demand for technical and finance professionals with a minimal of 5 years’ expertise, with the best expertise vary, relying on place, of 10-20 years’ expertise for workers degree and 15-30 years’ expertise for management roles,” they added.
The OneSource representatives mentioned working corporations like to rent individuals from different working corporations and fewer from service corporations “except the business is in a giant progress enterprise cycle”.
“Along with technical levels and work expertise, all corporations are on the lookout for intangible constructive traits as properly together with work ethic/initiative, intelligence/drawback fixing, and good communication abilities,” Mount and Shurlds mentioned.
“We’ve discovered over time that the bigger or extra technically specialised the function that they like lesser skilled, however extremely smart candidates to coach their means, and in sure positions can decrease the bar on communication abilities if the technical proficiency is extra extremely valued,” they added.
“Smaller corporations favor extra broad expertise and better degree of communication abilities as work groups are usually smaller and extra intimate and require group members to speak higher and have increased degree social interplay abilities,” they continued.
Why corporations search these attributes in candidates varies from firm to firm, the OneSource companions instructed Rigzone.
“Usually, bigger corporations favor to coach prime of the category candidates their means as they’ve extra individuals and techniques to considerably uniformly practice new graduates, whereas smaller corporations have much less in-house coaching infrastructure and depend on the coaching and expertise gained at different corporations previous to becoming a member of their firm,” they mentioned.
OneSource describes itself as an govt and technical search agency that emphasizes strategic placement of achieved professionals with consumer companions. The corporate serves the oil and fuel, midstream, oil refining, petrochemical, engineering companies, and accounting/finance industries, its web site highlights.
Mount has over 20 years in skilled recruiting following a profitable working firm profession primarily with LL&E/ConocoPhillips in oil and fuel and oil refining and buying and selling, OneSource’s website states, including that he was instrumental in rising the engineering area of interest of a regional recruiting agency, then forming OneSource Skilled Search in 2003.
Shurlds is a trusted and confirmed govt recruiter with over 25 years as a frontrunner with Mobil Oil, Tulane College, Entergy Company, the OneSource website notes. Incomes a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Mississippi State & Tulane MBA, he joined OneSource in 2005, and is a key contributor to the agency’s vital progress and observe diversification, it provides.
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