Offshore jobs in Oil and Gas industry

Offshore oil drilling industry offers lots of opportunities for people, willing to work hard in exchange for exceptionally big salary. Offshore drilling contractors continuously look to hire skilled workers, engineers, ex-navy servicemen, retired military guys or former merchant sailors. There is also room for people that do not belong to any of these categories of offshore job seekers and can't boast any prior experience, but who feel enthusiastic about giving try to life on offshore platforms. Regardless of the case, each applicant has chance to get employed for doing very well salaried offshore job, provided the job seeker is in excellent physical condition. There are vacancies for both experienced personnel, college/university graduates, and candidates for vacancies of greenhand novice roustabouts, which is the most popular entry level job in offshore industry - many of today's Toolpushers (Rig Managers) once started their career in oil & gas from working their way up career ladder to the very top from the lowest and the dirtiest position of offshore Roustabout once in the past.

According to the estimates made public by the Daily Telegraph back in 2013, there's a need for 120,000 new oil rig workers and employees to replace the aging and hence retiring old skilled staff on offshore oil rigs during the next decade. Which means that the door to this very secluded industry is doomed to open wider and opportunity to get employed for unexperienced gets increased in spite of natural unwillingness of the oil companies to hire greenhand workers without prior experience.

Still, such situation on the offshore workforce market doesn't mean the competition among prospective oil rig workers is eliminated. The same as before, the majority of the CV's gets rejected. Did you know that statistically each resumé in oil & gas upstream sector receives 15 seconds in average before either going to the trash folder or shortlisted for closer examination by HR officer or authorized recruiter afterwards?

Those, who wish to work on offshore rigs, but do not have experience, should know that they could be put ahead of the majority of applicants competing for the same offshore job opening by simple mentioning in their resumé/CV cover letter that they have completed the OPITO approved offshore survival course. Without completing an offshore survival course no one will ever be allowed to set his foot on the helicopter deck on offshore platform or drillship, say nothing of starting to work offshore. Some

There are many ways that could lead aspiring offshore rig worker to get his foot in the door and win his very first entry-level job in the offshore industry, but what I could personally recommend as a good starting point is this semi-automated job search/CV submission service. It's actually not one of those believed to be offshore industry recruitment sites like rigzone or oilcareers, but sooner a very handy self-help Internet resource that could expedite your whole job search and hiring process radically and save you much time and disappointment. It's true that there are thousands of jobs available across the world in offshore industry. One of them could well become yours, if you act.