recruiting

The energy industry faces a shortage of skilled professionals, and high salaries aren’t enough to attract new talent. We need to show how careers in this field offer meaning and stability, with transferable skills across energy sectors.

Industry professionals can use the 20/60/20 approach to recruit those most likely to be won over to oil and gas.

The industry is balancing brains and bots as it squeezes out barrels of oil production.

Panelists at the recently held IPTC Conference shared the view that the biggest obstacle for implementation of new wave of technology in the industry could be access to young and skilled workers.

Is this the end of petroleum engineering as we know it? 2016 SPE President Nathan Meehan dives into the question on the new SPE Podcast.

The past years’ stable workforce levels in the upstream petroleum industry—balanced by increases in shale workers and decreases in offshore workers—are set to shift with a boost in offshore projects, one research firm says.

After a tough 4 years, new research shows that for the first time since 2014 the oil and gas industry expects more new jobs to be created than lost over the next 12 months.

To overcome challenges of perception and attract young people to the talent pool, the oil and gas industry should publicize its technological achievements rather than take them for granted.