New oil and gas recruitment solution to offer a more efficient service for recruiters and candidates
By Kevin Site OwnerWith the current down turn in the oil industry and a recent trend for pay cuts and pay offs, a record number of people in the industry are now seeking employment. The decline in oil prices has lead to projects being put on hold and some projects being cancelled altogether. Major oil companies are looking to reduce costs, and in doing so are cutting their work force.
This has an immediate impact on the recruitment industry, with some recruitment companies reporting half the amount of positions and double the amount of available candidates, compared to this time last year. With the market even more competitive than ever before recruitment companies are also looking to cut costs. Unfortunately this isn’t so easy as in a down turn, recruitment agencies work loads actually increase, as more people seek employment.
Most recruitment companies covering the oil and gas sector use sites like oilcareers and oilandgasjobsearch to find candidates and advertise positions. These sites are so well established that they are a must have resource for recruitment companies. They charge extortionate rates and do nothing to help recruiters cut costs. They know there model works and they know recruiters have to use them, as there is no alternative! Until now…
www.oilandgaspeople.com is a new recruitment site developed by Kevin Forbes, a contractor who works in the Oil Industry. Kevin seen the problems faced by recruiters and also the frustration faced by candidates seeking work. He says: “Oilandgaspeople fills a gap in the market and offers a solution that is genuinely better for recruiters and candidates”.
No longer do recruiters have to pay for job postings and access to a database. Candidates benefit by being automatically matched to positions that they meet the requirements for. Candidates don’t have to browse for new jobs every day and they will never miss out on suitable positions. Recruiters don’t need to wait for candidates to reply to job postings and no longer have to sort through hundreds of irrelevant CV’s often received in response to job ads.
The best thing is the above process is totally free, with recruiters only ever paying a fee when they have a candidate match. There are no hidden fees and the site includes many features that other job sites charge for, for free!
Oilandgaspeople has been created from a clean slate; the site follows a new model and has been designed to offer a better solution for candidates and recruiters. We aim to be the largest oil and gas job site, which we will achieve by working with recruiters and candidates, listening to feedback received and building a site that works for Oil and Gas People and not for the media companies profiting vastly from other sites!
To prove our commitment to the industry we have also launched a community site that will allow oil and gas people the world over to network and exchange information. www.oilandgascommunity.com aims to create safer work environments by allowing oil and gas people world wide to learn from each others experiences, mistakes, lessons learned and to share advances in technology and improved work methods.
www.oilandgaspeople is live to candidates now and will be live to recruiters soon.
More information on how the site benefits recruiters and
candidates can be found here
http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/about.asp
Oilandgaspeople announces the launch of new networking site for anyone in the Oil and Gas industry
By Kevin Site OwnerSocial networking is growing more popular every day, LinkedIn, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter and others, have fast became a part of our every day lives. The ability to network and connect with like minded people all over the world is not only a great way to socialise and keep in touch with friends; it is also a very powerful business and marketing tool.
Lots of small companies and even some larger ones are releasing the power of the web and using it as a way of generating interest in their business. Lots of companies now recruit on social networking sites and the chances are if you don’t have an online presence you are probably missing out.
All of the above are reasons why people join such sites. www.oilandgaspeople.com hopes to take it a step further. We believe social networking could be used to improve safety within the oil and gas industry. In terms of safety, some countries are much further ahead than others, some companies have strict policies in place, and others have next to none. The standard varies from country to country and from individual to individual.
It comes down to training, knowledge and education. We see the same accidents occurring time and time again. Often those involved will say they ‘didn’t know’ or ‘weren’t aware’ Accidents and incidents that probably would have been avoided, if only we had managed to learn from other peoples lessons and mistakes.
Let’s use the powers of social networking to share lessons learned and to educate others in the industry. Wouldn’t it be great to have a massive resource of people from all aspects of the oil industry? A bank of knowledge and information that can be tapped at any time! From every day tasks to huge projects, you can bet someone has done it before. They may know a better way, a product you wasn’t aware of or a procedure that could save you time, money and improve safety.
The industry is ever changing, ever developing and pushing the barriers of new technology every day. It’s impossible to keep track with everything. Let’s use social networking to expand our knowledge, share our experiences and to improve safety across the board.
www.oilandgaspeople.com is not just another oil and gas jobs site. It has been created by oil and gas people, for oil and gas people! As part of the site and to prove our commitment to the industry, we are proud to announce the launch of www.oilandgascommunity.com a brand new social networking site for anyone working in oil and gas.
It doesn’t matter where you work or what you do, we are confident you will have something to bring to the table. We are going to be developing the site over the coming months and hope to include lots of pages with information, lessons learned, new technology, industry news etc, etc…
People can post requests for help and information on the forums. Join groups of like minded people, create events, chat instantly with other members, share information through blogs and build a profile advertising their company.
If you work in health and safety our sister site www.hsepeople.com will also be very relevant to you. HSE people is a well established community site that will give people an insight into the potential of www.oilandgascommunity.com
Hope to see you all there soon.
Kevin
Forbes
www.oilandgaspeople.com
www.oilandgascommunity.com
www.hsepeople.com
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By Diane SmithGreen Careers
By Jessica Wilson
Independent Newpaper
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
GREEN CAREERS ARTICLE
Fresh Start: How going green can help you beat the
recession
By Steve McCormack
Thursday, 16 July 2009
For those hit by redundancy, adding environmental credentials
to a CV could enhance employability.
Allen & York's Business Manager Joe Heppenstall gives his
views on Green Careers and transferable skills.
Read
Full Article in the Independent Newspaper
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'Green Careers - 400,000 Environmental Jobs by 2015'
Allen & York examine the predicted global explosion
in environmental jobs
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is currently conducting an inquiry into the prospects for green jobs and policies aimed at increasing employment in environmental industries. It will consider how the UK can maximise the environmentally positive opportunities arising from changes in public spending and how this might help with employment during the recession.
The report will also examine other areas, including barriers
to creating green jobs and analyse where the gaps are in the
skills base for the UK environmental industries.
Interestingly Tim Yeo - Chairman of the EAC, has called for
the government to lead by example and do more to achieve its
own environmental targets. He told the BBC;
"If the government expects everybody else to be getting
greener, it's important that it should lead from the
front. It is missing its own target for cutting carbon
emissions from the government's own offices, it's using less
renewable energy, not more, and its recycling rate is
falling, not rising." 5th August 2009
The EAC inquiry comes hot-on-the-heels of the publication of
the report ‘Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable,
Low-Carbon World’ funded by the UNEP (United Nations
Environmental Programme) . This year Allen &
York were delighted to be recognised as one of the first 100
participants of the UNEP - Climate
Neutral Network (CN Net) and therefore took great
interest in this recent report which is looking at green
careers across the globe.
The UNEP report predicts that there will be a significant
rise in ‘green jobs’ particularly within the Energy
industry. This will come from a shift in public
spending from fossil fuels (oil and natural gas) to renewable
energy sources (wind, solar and geothermal power), and that
the 1 million people already working in biofuels, could rise
by 12 million by 2030.
New jobs could also result, (the report suggests) from the
expansion of recycling and environmental engineering (e.g.
engineering new eco-vehicles). Wales as an example has
proposed targets to see 70% of domestic & municipal waste
and 90% of construction waste recycled by 2025.
Jane Davidson (Environment, Sustainability and Housing
Minster – Welsh Assembly) said she was keen to get Wales
living within its resources and pioneer sustainability in the
UK; “There are tremendous opportunities to save money and
create high quality industry in Wales by using the valuable
material resources contained in waste."
What does this mean in terms of actual numbers of jobs? Well
Ed Miliband, (UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate
Change) predicts that the environmental industries across
Britain could generate an extra 400,000 jobs by 2015 and the
UNEP report predicts that the manufacture, installation and
maintenance of solar panels alone, will be such a booming
industry that it will generate 6.3 million more jobs
worldwide by 2030.
These are all large, optimistic numbers and some might say
(including Tim Yeo maybe?) that we will have to move a lot
faster to reach these ambitious targets. However, what
is does show is another global commitment to move the world
towards a greener, more sustainable society and that can only
mean the creation of more green jobs.
As leaders in Environmental Recruitment – Allen & York
were asked by the Independent Newspaper this month to give
their opinion on the growth of environmental recruitment and
the prospects of career changers looking at moving into this
industry.
The biggest area here, Allen & York suggest, is people
with generic project management skills, picked up in another
industry, such as construction, for example or sometimes
individuals with experience of a specific business role prove
to have easily transferable skills. Allen & York
managed a move recently for a telecommunications firm
employee, whose role was buying land for new masts. He moved
to a role buying land to site wind turbines.
Other upcoming areas where strong project management and
commercial skills will enable a shift toward the green agenda
are the Carbon Reduction Commitment or CRCs that come into
force in April 2010. There are certainly insufficient skills
in the market to ensure that all businesses hit their
“commitment” effectively so solid project managers from all
sorts of backgrounds are being lined-up within firms to
manage the carbon reductions, if not to set the policy and
actions at the outset. During the downturn this affords some
businesses a fresh area in which to house those redundant
from other sectors. As things pick up however, we will see
this trend extend in to the recruitment of project delivery
teams from a wealth of differing fields.
Another good example of where transferable skills can be used
is in the field of Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR), a growth area for many companies.
CSR spans all levels, from the Board to Junior roles and
often begins within Marketing and PR teams. However,
when taken on properly by a company it becomes part of the
business and drives every day activity. Often
skills will be acquired ‘on the job’, and people who
initially have minimal environmental training may find
themselves obtaining further qualifications to enhance their
newly found skills. The Institute of Environmental Management
& Assessment (IEMA) is a good place to find
introductory training courses.
As we approach the Copenhagen summit to find a successor to the Kyoto agreement, and as more environmental pledges are made by global governments, we need to ensure that the infrastructure is in place to deliver on the targets. Allen & York anticipate a surge in Environmental job opportunities over the next few years and look forward to supporting existing environmental experts, as well as career changers looking to start a new ‘green career’.
Successful launch at Offshore Europe for new Oil and Gas recruitment site!
By Kevin Site Owner
Launching a brand new company at such a prestigious event as
Offshore Europe would fear even experienced business men, but for
Peterhead man, Kevin Forbes, it was the ideal launching platform
for his new venture
www.oilandgaspeople.com and an opportunity not to be
missed!
Kevin a contractor, who works in the Oil and Gas Industry, became frustrated at the existing Oil and Gas recruitment sites and came up with the idea for Oilandgaspeople over a year ago. He says: “The launch at Offshore Europe was the result of over a years worth of research and months of web design work and testing. We consulted with lots of recruiters and agencies, to tweak the initial idea into what we have now. A solution that challenges the format followed by traditional job sites and offers a better more efficient service for Recruiters and Candidates.”
Oilandgaspeople allows candidates to build a profile. Essentially a complete insight into that candidates work history, qualifications, experience, training and requirements. Recruiters upload positions to the site for free and are automatically matched to available candidates. Candidates have to confirm they are interested in the position before a recruiter receives their edited CV for free.
This allows recruitment companies to put CV’s across to clients totally free of charge. The site even formats the CV and adds the recruitment company’s logo automatically. When a candidate is accepted for a position the recruiter simply logs in and pays a small fee for that candidates contact details. An unlimited access option is even available to larger recruitment companies that allows access to candidates contact details at an earlier stage.
Kevin says: “For years agencies have paid huge fees to other Oil Job sites, for access to what is essentially just a CV data base, and for posting job ads. Recruiters get very little for their money. Often the data base is out of date and recruiters still have to cold call potential candidates to find out who is available and who isn’t. When posting jobs, recruiters have to wait for candidates to reply and then sort through hundreds of CV’s, to root out the ones that meet their requirements. It’s a lengthy process and one that relies on the right candidate coming across their job posting in the first place.
Oilandgaspeople is essentially a dating service for candidates and recruiters. We ensure that candidates never miss out on a job that they meet the requirements for. Likewise for recruiters in that they find candidates instantly who meet their exact requirements. No more waiting for candidates to reply to ads, no more sorting through hundreds of CV’s and cold calling potential candidates. Just instant free matches and a very reasonable fee at the final stage, if the candidate is placed!
www.oilandgaspeople.com
is live to candidates now and will go live to recruiters from the
5th of October 2009. The site has many advanced and
innovative features that genuinely make’s it better for
recruiters, better for candidates and better for oil and gas
people. As part of Oilandgaspeople, a new social networking and
community site specific to the Oil Industry has also been
launched. Join today for free at
www.oilandgascommunity.com
New Offshore Safety Chief in call to maintain high standards
By Kevin Site OwnerThe UK's new offshore safety chief has warned the industry there is no room for complacency.
Steve Walker, who has just replaced Ian Whewekk as head of the Health and Safety Executives (HSE) offshore division, said he wants the regulator to be respected.
Meeting Industry at Offshore Europe in Aberdeen yesterday for the first "time in his new position, Walker said: ' Ian has left me an excellent legacy. Under his watch the industry did improve in its leadership of offshore health and safety... but one of my top priorities is to make sure the industry is not complacent with its current safety standards.
"I want the industry to deliver on its commitments to maintain safety."
Walker said he wants the HSE to be an efficient and effective regulator and hopes it will be respected by the industry. However, he raised concerns about spikes in the number of hydrocarbon releases and major accidents in the first quarter of this year.
Walker, who has been with the HSE for more than 30 years and in the offshore division since 2004 was responsible for running the organisation's recent and largely positive KP3 review into offshore safety.
"We gave the industry a pretty good message when the review was published in July but the Industry still has to keep its eye on the ball.
"I recognise the challenges in keeping aging installations fit for purpose at a time when industry is looking at the technical and cost demands of developing existing fields, especially in the context of the economic climate and the energy debate," he said.
Robert Paterson, the health and safety director of industry group Oil and Gas UK, said: "Over the last 21 years the industry has made huge progress in putting in place multiple barriers on its offshore installations to prevent escalation of dangerous occurrences and to reduce their impact.
SOURCE - www.upstreamonline.com
Teach trick-or-treaters their SafetySkills.
By Heather AndersonHalloween is one of the most beloved holidays by children, but also one of the most dangerous. Everyone has heard of the many real-life horror stories that could have been avoided if the proper safety precautions were taken. To ensure that trick-or-treaters experience the fun of Halloween without injury, SafetySkills™ has decided to offer its Halloween Safety course to the public at no charge at www.safetyskills.com/halloweensafety.
“Halloween is the kids’ holiday, dressing up like their favorite characters, running around with their friends in search of as much candy as they can get their hands on,” said Trey Greene, CEO of noodleStream.com. “But kids also need to learn the safe way to have a great Halloween because the sad truth is that bad things can happen. As a father, I wanted to help other parents and childcare professionals get all the information they needed to protect their children so that they can have a fun and safe Halloween.”
This Halloween Safety course provides parents and childcare professionals with information about safe trick-or-treating, decorating, cooking and even costumes. Along with everything you need to know about Halloween safety, SafetySkills™ is providing printable Halloween Safety coloring sheets that go with the online course free on their website.
“I think the video was clear, to the point and covered many great topics,” said Kim Estes, Child Safety Expert of PEACE of Mind. “I was happy to see a non-scary, simple safety video to help give us all a gentle reminder that safety counts!”
www.oilandgaspeople.com
By Kevin Site OwnerNew Powerful Recruitment Solution Is Set To Energise The Oil & Gas Industry
A new recruitment site designed specifically for the oil and gas industries is set to revolutionise traditional employment resources and searching. Aberdeenshire based business -
Oilandgaspeople.com provides a central point where recruiters can advertise the latest job vacancies and candidates upload their CVs. The site, which goes live on 7th September 2009, will fast-track and facilitate the process of matching the right person to the right job benefiting the recruiter, the candidate, and the employer.
Having worked in the industry for over six years, oilandgaspeople.com developer, Kevin Forbes, used his experience of the sector and his frustrations with existing recruitment methods to devise and deliver a new alternative that aims to save time and money and increase candidate matching success.
He says: “I found the system of using numerous job sites to search for vacancies fragmented and frustrating. I would regularly spend hours at a time searching for positions which became even more difficult when I was working offshore or abroad with limited internet access. “I decided to take the issue into my own hands with a website to present my CV and background to potential employers and agencies directly. As I saw immediate impact I expanded on the idea and www.oilandgaspeople.com is the end result.
“The launch of www.oilandgaspeople.com is good news for the industry during the economic downturn – it is a cost effective solution for recruiters at a time when reducing costs is of the utmost importance and it will also help those looking for work as they benefit from an efficient, free recruitment service.”
Oilandgaspeople.com is a cost effective means of advertising for recruiters. There is up to a 75% cost saving over traditional oil job sites and if a match is not made, there is no fee to pay. When a new position is advertised, the site automatically matches candidates to the job, referring to the high quality, accurate and current candidate information it holds.
Recruiters then review candidate profiles, shortlist suitable candidates and ascertain who then wishes to be put forward for the job. For candidates, using the site is completely free. They build their own profile on the website and their personal details remain secure, only to be released when they agree to a recruiter recommending them for a position.
An additional feature of Oilandgaspeople is
the Oil and Gas
Community, where site
members can chat in the forums; create events, form groups and
network with other oil and gas people from all
over the world.
Kevin Forbes
is also behind the website www.hsepeople.com
which was
launched earlier this year, giving health
and safety professionals from around the world the
opportunity to network and exchange information.
For more information, please contact Kevin Forbes:
Email: info@oilandgaspeople.com
Web:
www.oilandgaspeople.com
Is your business prepared for the unexpected?
By Heather AndersonHow well would your business fair if the unexpected occurred today? September is National Preparedness Month and employers are encouraged to make a plan to avoid issues that could affect their businesses in the event of a disaster. Unfortunately, due to the current economic strains companies are enduring, many businesses are cutting corners on safety.
“Any disaster, no matter how severe or minor, can result in huge costs to a business,” said Trey Greene, CEO of noodleStream.com. “Making simple preparation strategies can save thousands. Training employees how to respond in the event of a fire, severe weather or a workplace injury will not only protect your business, but save lives.”
The number of preventable accidents reported in the news is escalating at an alarming rate. These incidents are making everyone a little more nervous including government agencies. Despite the new safety legislations being proposed to Congress, some feel that simple changes made by individuals can make a big difference in safety.
“Our entire emergency management team has a role to play when it comes to preparing for and responding to the next disaster,” said W. Craig Fugate, FEMA Administrator. “One of the most important parts of the team is the public. The more prepared the public is now, by getting an emergency response kit, making an emergency plan and getting a skill, like CPR, the stronger our emergency response team will be.”
