Oil Rig Jobs

Are you looking for jobs in the oil industry? You have probably already gone to job agencies and online job boards to look for oil vacancies, right? If you haven’t, go do so right now. These are not the best ways to find oil drilling jobs because too many job seekers do the same thing, but they are simple and have shown results in the past. So get your resume submitted, then spend the rest of your time on more effective ways to find your drilling rig jobs and roustabout jobs.

1. Drive around the oil fields and talk to the toolpusher.

From what successful job seekers have said, one of the most effective ways to look for oil vacancies is to drive around the oil fields to talk to various oil rig operators. You want to talk to the toolpusher (manager in charge of the oil rig). He knows best whether he needs more workers. Let him push your job application through Human Resources.

Why not send your resume directly to HR? Because they are often the last to know that the oil rig needs to hire more workers. On the oil field, people leave all the time – some retire, while others find better paying jobs, or quit, etc.) The toolpusher may not immediately ask HR for more people. But if you go up to him and say, “Hey! I’m available now!”, don’t you think it makes his life easier? This way, you also make an end-run around everyone else competing with you for drilling rig jobs.

2. Networking

Regardless of whether you are looking for oil vacancies or any other job, people agree that networking is one of the best ways to look for openings. This is because of the theory of Six Degrees of Separation. This means that if you talk to a friend, and he talks to his friend, and so on, within about 6 other people, you will reach someone who wants to hire you.

This theory was shown in experiments done in the real world several times. The first published experiment was done by Stanley Milgram from Harvard University in 1969. More recently, in 2001, Duncan Watts from Columbia University recreated this experiment on the internet.

So go ahead and talk to people you know. Don’t be shy – let them know that you are looking for oil vacancies. Open your mouth and ask your friends and family. Talk to your former teachers, your church pastor, your neighbors. Ask the guy who delivers your newspaper, and the shopkeepers at your favorite neighborhood shops. The more people you talk to, the greater your chances of finding your oil drilling jobs.

3. Use an employment placement service for the offshore oil industry

Successful businesses network with each other. There are two or three reputable employment placement services that specialize in finding people for the offshore oil industry. The people running these services are experienced former staff from oil rig companies. They know who’s who in the oil industry and which are the best companies to work for. These services will send your resume to large and medium-sized oil companies which have oil vacancies.

What makes them different from services like Monster?

• First, they are specialists in the oil industry, unlike a generalist like Monster.
• They have connections. If you were the HR officer, wouldn’t you give priority to the resume which came from the employment agency owned by your boss’ friend?
• It is a little-known fact that many employers will advertise on job boards even when they do not have vacancies. They use the responses from their advertisements to find out how many people are looking for drilling rig jobs. Using this information, they set the salaries for new roustabouts and workers renewing their contracts.

These are the three best ways to look for oil vacancies. Don’t limit yourself to the easy way out. After you send your resume to your local employment agencies and online job boards like Monster, get off your backside and go the extra mile. Do what few other job seekers do, and beat them to the oil drilling jobs.

RigWorker.com has been helping people get offshore oil rig jobs since 1998.

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