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  • Three Less-known Growing Industries
    By: Art Gib | - For most students, choosing a major in college is one of the hardest parts about getting an education. Unless you are a kid who has known what you wanted to be since you were six years old, figuring out what you want to do professionally can be a difficult decision. There are so many options available that it can be difficult to decide on one career to focus on as a student. Many people miss out on exciting careers that they might enjoy simply because they don't know that they exist. Here is ...
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  • Three Less-known Growing Industries
    By: Art Gib | - For most students, choosing a major in college is one of the hardest parts about getting an education. Unless you are a kid who has known what you wanted to be since you were six years old, figuring out what you want to do professionally can be a difficult decision. There are so many options available that it can be difficult to decide on one career to focus on as a student. Many people miss out on exciting careers that they might enjoy simply because they don't know that they exist. Here is ...
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  • Welcome To Opposite World
    By: Fritz Pfister | - Local Realtors in Springfield Illinois have posted the fifth consecutive month over month increase in the number of home sales June through October. Good news. Or is it? Has the local housing market returned to normal, or is it a false market driven by financial incentives provided by the government with your tax dollars?

    Unemployment jumped in September in Springfield to 7.9% the highest in decades and about 3% higher than one year ago. This means we can rule out job expansion ad ...

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  • Offshore Oil Drilling Jobs: A Few Basic Facts
    By: Art Gib | - If you are a construction professional who has been hit hard by the tough economy, you may be in the position of looking for alternative types of work. One of the most promising areas is in offshore oil drilling. Offshore oil drilling jobs are still plentiful, as the world struggles to continue to meet people's demand for this type of energy source. Here are a few facts about offshore oil drilling and what working on a rig is really like.

    The United States imports about 13 million ...

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  • How Do Offshore Workers Spend Their Day?
    By: Lumber Joe | - By offshore jobs we usually mean employment opportunities at offshore oil rigs. Offshore jobs are characterized by distinctive working conditions, high work load, but at the same time considerably higher salaries than in any other sector of economy. Oil rig jobs require different types of personnel, even those that you would never think would be necessary on the rig. Offshore jobs range from basic black collar worker to highly qualified engineers and safety and environmental protection specialis ...
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  • Are Entry Level Oil Rig Jobs A Scams - Find Out Now
    By: Oil Rig Jobs Guy | - Entry level oil rig jobs are usually searched for by people with few or no skills and experience in the oil industry. Entry oil rig jobs are a very popular option for young men looking for a well paying oil rig job From a look at the forums, it also appears that most of the applicants for these types of oil rig jobs are quite desperate and are being preyed on by unscrupulous companies who charge upfront fees for finding them entry level oil rig jobs.

    For this reason you will find ...

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  • How To Get Oil Jobs In The Gulf
    By: geetika | - It is not an unknown fact that Gulf is an oil-rich region that has numerous jobs to offer to locals as well as expatriates. In fact, thousands of qualified and experienced expatriates migrate to the region each year to take up oil and gas jobs in the Gulf. Oils and gas jobs are quite lucrative and money is the main attraction that pulls foreign workers into these jobs. Qualified professionals from world over take up oil and gas jobs in the Gulf. From India too, a large amount of skilled workforc ...
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  • Consumer Confidence And Home Sales
    By: Fritz Pfister | - Why the sluggish home sales? Coming off several months with interest rates at historic lows below five percent on thirty year mortgages, an eight thousand dollar tax credit for first time buyers, four thousand dollar state grants for first time buyers, and an above average number of homes for sale, one would think home sales would be skyrocketing. They're not. Four of the first five months were down in this historically stable Springfield Illinois housing market, and in May by 20%.


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  • Oil Rigs Employment: The Truth About Interviews For Oil Rig Jobs
    By: Calvin Loh | - Do you feel stressed when looking for oil rigs employment? It's natural. No matter how experienced you may be, everyone feels anxious when they have to look for a new job. For many people, the most frightening part of finding a job is the interview itself. And yet, by rights, this should be the least worrying part of your job hunt. This article discusses some facts about the oil rig job interview which should help to remove your interview anxieties.

    Once you get your interview, yo ...

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  • Offshore Drilling Employment: Your Cover Letter Must Have These 3 Elements
    By: Calvin Loh | - Both your cover letter and your resume are important when looking for offshore drilling employment. You need to get HR to read both, otherwise it's all for nothing. First, you need to attract their attention. This is easy - your email (cover letter) subject just needs to state the job title (and code, if any) in the advertisement. Then your cover letter must make them read your resume. Finally, getting you the interview is the job of your resume. For your cover letter, here are three elements ne ...
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  • Offshore Oil Rig Jobs: How To Get Your Resume Chosen By Hr
    By: Calvin Loh | - When the economy is doing well, you can apply for 10 offshore oil rig jobs and get interviews for 5 of them. But when the economy is in a recession, you're lucky to get 1 interview for every 20 resumes you send out. Every little thing you can do to improve the odds help. Here are two important things that can help your resume survive the cut.

    1. Relevant Paperwork

    To work on an offshore oil rig, you need quite a lot of paperwork. When oil sold for $140/barrel in 200 ...

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  • Offshore Oil Rig Jobs: How To Get Hired By Sneaking Past Hr
    By: Calvin Loh | - Sending in your resume for offshore oil rig jobs? No matter how good your resume is, getting picked for an interview is like playing the lottery. Hundreds of people apply for the same job once it is advertised. Getting your resume noticed without looking like a fool or trouble-maker is very difficult. But what if you can get an interview without going through HR? Here is a way to do just that.

    When you see offshore drilling jobs advertised, don't jump the gun by immediately sendin ...

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  • Offshore Oil Rig Jobs: Do You Use These Two Ways To Find Oil Rig Jobs?
    By: Calvin Loh | - The best way to get hired for offshore oil rig jobs is to be recommended by someone in the offshore drilling company. Recruitment agents and human resource managers alike agree on this point. Even when hundreds of people are applying for the same job, a recommendation can often move you to the top of the list. Imagine how much more powerful this can be when applied to a job which has just become vacant and has not been advertised yet.

    The secret is that most people, bosses of oil ...

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  • Offshore Oil Rig Jobs: How To Find At Least 200 Oil Drilling Companies
    By: Calvin Loh | - Thousands of job seekers are hunting for the same few offshore oil rig jobs in the same old places. Nowadays, you need to do a lot more than before to get hired. With $400 billion alone being spend looking for new oil fields in 2009, there are plenty of unadvertised offshore drilling jobs. So why chase after the same oil rig jobs as everyone else? If you follow the crowd like a lemming, you will fall off the edge of the cliff like everyone else.

    Once the job vacancy is advertised ...

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  • Offshore Oil Rig Jobs: Getting Hired With No Experience
    By: Calvin Loh | - Recession or not, you can still find offshore oil rig jobs. There are still offshore drilling companies deploying new oil rigs and hiring workers. For example, Transocean is rolling out 10 new oil rigs over the next few years. They'll need 3000 new workers just for this. Exxon spends $79 million daily looking for new oil fields. Although OPEC has been complaining that oil at $40/barrel is too cheap, oil companies throughout the world will still invest $400 billion in 2009 to look for more oil. C ...
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  • Do Even Oil Rig Companies Hire Workers During The Recession?
    By: Calvin Loh | - There's plenty of bad news from the economy, and you may have heard that oil rig companies like Schlumberger will be laying off 5000 workers. Halliburton says they also plan to cut some positions. News from Canada is not good either - entry level roustabout jobs are cutting salaries by 12%, and even experienced positions like drillers are losing 4% of their salaries. But despite this bad news, the situation in the oil industry is very bright compared to the rest of the economy.

    No ...

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  • Oil Field Employment: Why Locals Have The Advantage
    By: Calvin Loh | - The bulk of oil field employment comes from smaller oil service contractors, not the big players like Shell and ExxonMobil. Why? Because the big oil companies don't do much drilling these days. They prefer to sub-contract the job out to smaller drilling service contractors - this lets them use clever accounting tricks to make their balance sheets look better and increase their share prices.

    So, if you want an oilfield job, you need to chase these small oil service firms. Unfortun ...

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  • The Four Biggest Problems Wit Oil Field Employment
    By: Calvin Loh | - Have you ever thought about why oil field employment has such high pay? Not to mention that you only have to work half of the year? Then there are the travel opportunities? Have you ever wondered why the oil companies are so kind? The truth is, they aren't (kind). The benefits they give you are compensation for these four big problems with jobs in oil field.

    1. An Oilfield Job Has Very Long Hours

    Most oil field jobs go 14, 21 or even 30 days without a break. Sometim ...

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  • Oil Field Employment: 2 Big Reasons Why You Should Look For An Oilfield Job
    By: Calvin Loh | - Oil field employment - high salaries, double what other industries pay; many perks and bonuses. Only the sin industries of gambling, tobacco and alcohol pay their workers as much money. Is it any wonder that many job seekers eagerly look for an oilfield job? But what are the actual benefits of jobs in oil field, and are they worth going through so much effort?

    High Pay, Bonuses And Benefits

    Government salary statistics gathered in 2004 report that rig welding jobs p ...

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  • Offshore Catering Jobs: How Much Do These Jobs Pay? How Do I Find These Catering Jobs?
    By: Calvin Loh | - Do you have any experience as a cook? If yes, you should think about finding offshore catering jobs. Jobs on oil rigs are famous for paying double what you would normally earn in another industry. And if you have never worked as a cook in the past? Then why not try for an entry level position like a steward? In the rest of this article, we will cover:

    Salary
    Working conditions
    How to improve your chance of getting hired
    Where to look for jobs
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  • What Are The Entry Level Jobs On Oil Rigs?
    By: Calvin Loh | - Are you looking for jobs on oil rigs? When you do not have any experience in this industry, finding a job looks as tough as climbing Mount Everest. However, just a little bit of knowledge, preparation and hard work can do wonders. Like any other industry, you need to start at the bottom to get in. For a start, here is a list of entry level offshore rig jobs.

    1. Roustabout

    Roustabouts are general laborers. They provide the brawn and handle most of the heavy lifting a ...

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  • What Are Oil And Gas Jobs All About?
    By: Avi Solutionz | - Over the last 30 years since oil was first tapped in the North Sea, the industry has developed to the point where it now has nearly 30,000 oil and gas jobs offshore and employs about 300,000 people onshore but all over the UK.
    Pumping, refining and distributing oil and gas from under the sea is a highly technological process and is done out in one of the most inhospitable environments in the World. There are now some 200 offshore facilities producing oil and gas and jobs while supplying a ...

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  • Experience Counts For Petrochemical Jobs.
    By: Avi Solutionz | - If you are looking for a new petrochemical job, or looking for your first job in the petrochemical industry then your experience is what will take you to the front of the queue. There are thousands of petrochemical job vacancies and they are coming up all the time. Petrochemical jobs are as close to recession proof as it is possible to get because the demand for oil and gas if huge and growing. Thus companies in exploration, drilling, processing, distributing and all the support industries to oi ...
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  • Are You Looking For An Oil Job ?
    By: Avi Solutionz | - Are you looking for an oil job? Do you want to make good money off shore on an oilrig? Across the World inn the petrochemical industry there are around 1.5 million people working on almost 2800 oil platform jobs. Some rigs are so big that they look like small islands and they all have in common lots of varied and lucrative oil jobs.

    Some oil job workers go off shore for the adventure but all of them do it in order to earn a lot of money quickly. You see offshore oil jobs are the ...

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  • Teamwork Is A Gas Job
    By: Avi Solutionz | - Sometimes misunderstandings between co-workers on say a gas-drilling rig is not so much about what they don't like and more about what they don't know.
    Consider the performance review Andrea Gill had as a young graduate management engineer in her first gas job. Gill's boss told her that fellow gas job employees who knew her well spoke well of her, while those who hardly knew her or knew only of her didn't like her at all.
    "It struck me that the people I knew the least were people w ...

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  • Getting That High Paying Oil Jobs
    By: Avi Solutionz | - Landing an oil job means one thing, good payday ahead. Consider this; an average salary for the gas job is around $50,000. This means a regular worker will receive at least $40,000 in a year for jobs in oil, although it may vary depending on the company, location, industry and ones experience. This is more than what one can get in aviation industry which is considered to be the next high paying job.

    Pursuing a career in oil industry requires one to have a good technical k ...

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  • Applying For An Oil Job
    By: Avi Solutionz | - A good payday ahead is stored for you if you will be pursuing you career in oil jobs. A regular oil job can promised you to a high paying job starting at $ 40,000 in a year. With better payday ahead, it will always be an exciting job. Aside from that, oil industry is the most stable industry considering that the demand of oil is constant and increasing. This means, a lot land and on-shore drilling are taking place every now and then.

    You will be having an option as to which kind ...

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  • Landing A Job In The Oil Gas Profession
    By: Avi Solutionz | - Oil and gas jobs are and always have been a flourishing profession. The petroleum industry is booming and there is a constant ongoing worker shortage. Despite the demand for workers, it takes more than a list of addresses and phone numbers to land an oil and gas job. It not only takes having in-depth industry knowledge and a proven strategy; you will also need to have an understanding of the oil and gas industrys insider tips.

    Getting a job in the oil field is like gettin ...

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  • Good Things To Know About Oil And Gas Engineer Jobs
    By: Dalvin Rumsey | - People who get to work as engineers in the oil and gas production are usually very well trained professionals. There are many things an engineer can be responsible for. For instance, a drilling engineer has to make sure the drilling of wells goes well, and also provide engineering support for all stages of oil and gas extraction. This includes planning and drawing up the drilling program, monitoring safety and providing on-site support. The drilling engineer must analyze the performance of the d ...
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  • Tips On The Offshore Oil Rig Jobs
    By: Dalvin Rumsey | - As you probably know by now, the offshore oil rig jobs imply physical work. Almost all the rig companies on the market try to offer their employees an enjoyable time onboard. Especially as there are accommodation wings that meet 4 or 5 star hotel standards. The result is that, even if the employees are actually living in the middle of the ocean, they are good taken care of, with companies assuring all food, board and laundry expenses, besides the travel and transfer costs.

    So, if ...

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