Job Sector Analysis: Oil & Gas Sector

This is our new coverage on sector by sector, and determining which sectors are hiring in the current market. In this article, we would like to share some information with you about oil & gas sectors.

The oil and gas sectors have been a major employer not just in North America, but pretty much across the whole world, especially in USA, Canada, UK, Australia and Middle East, but there are also large number of new jobs created in China and India; as well as Singapore and Malaysia.

We have conducted a survey with a large number of respondents, and have identified some interesting opportunities that you can consider.

1. Oil & Gas Exploration Engineers: This is still in demand, especially those with 5+ years experience; currently, there is a strong demand for these engineers from Canada, China and parts of United States
2. Environmental Consultants: This may come up as a surprise, but increasing number of mining companies are hiring their in-house environmental consultants to prepare for the increasing number of assessments, environment impact analysis and to comply with regulators.
3. Geologists: This is not a surprise, and continues to be in high demand from oil & gas companies worldwide
4. Safety / Occupational Health professionals – maybe this was caused because of the recent oil spill crisis; there seems to be increasing demand for training and occupational health professionals
5. Investor relations professionals – many oil & gas companies are listed companies, there has been a heightened interest in investor relations; one reason is that oil & gas companies do need to raise capital constantly for their operations; and investor relations is regarded as an important part of the overall financing strategy.
6. Financial specialists, especially those with strong financial modelling skills to create financial viability assessments on companies’ assets.

Where to find good opportunities in the oil & gas sectors? Jobs are still widely available especially in North America in these sectors, and some parts of Europe and Asia.

One way to find good job prospects is to contact the companies directly, and if you are a recruitment professional, you can also find potential business opportunities from mid-tier oil & gas companies; there are also increasing number of international oil & gas companies setting up overseas operations as well.

The oil & gas industries also has a relatively higher dependency on consultants, it is very common to see a consultant working several for oil & gas companies, this is especially common for junior to mid-tier oil & gas companies

If you are interested to know companies in the oil & gas sectors, our Global Oil & Gas Companies Guide could be a good starting point for you, this covers over 1,000 Oil & Gas companies around the world, for more information, please visit our website http://researchwhitepaper.com