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 Volcanic Ash Aside, Engineers See Bright Skies Ahead
With many industries still subdued, and fears of a double dip recession hanging over us like the volcanic ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokul, AWS finds that talent managers are looking to their alumni for support. The oil and gas industry are scouring the market for technical talent, with many recruiters finding that experienced technical professionals can ‘write their own tickets’ as the market regains strength. In fact, experienced professionals in the oil and gas industry tell us they have weathered the economic downturn better than most.
“Companies are contacting us again with great interest in finding their former employees. There is renewed priority on preparing for the upcoming skills gap. In addition, companies downsized, but are now finding new opportunities and some of the people who were let go will be well positioned to fill these new opportunities,” shares Cathy Clonts, President of AWS, which hosts a number of corporate alumni networks.
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 Beyond The Classroom: What Coaching Can Do
How often do you learn something you believe in, but then instead of implementing it you put the new information on a shelf? Perhaps your boss had no expectations that you would use the new information, and before you know it, much of what you learned is forgotten. And it isn’t because people aren’t motivated to apply what they’ve learned. It’s just that the work environment isn’t set up to allow each person to make needed changes when he or she returns after a learning activity. In fact, there are factors in the work environment that actually discourage the person from changing at all. Focused and planned coaching has the potential to change all that.
Coaching is a process that creates a bridge between knowledge and action and it’s action that gets results and adds to the bottom line.
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Monday, 07 July 2008 12:00 |
 Recognizing that brand and image management are well served by the internet, Chevron is launching Chevron alumni to reach out to former Chevron employees. The online networking community enables former Chevron employees and former employees of legacy companies to consider career opportunities, refer associates and keep abreast of corporate activities. Join by visiting http://alumni.chevron.com today. |
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In a recent Alumni Web Services’ (AWS) survey of its online networking and alumni community members in the oil and gas industry, members were asked how their job satisfaction compared to the 2007 SPE survey where 73% of respondents were satisfied. AWS members’ responses remained consistent to the SPE survey; 43% percent report they are equally satisfied and a whopping 31% report a higher level of job satisfaction than before the economic downturn. This is good news compared with a recent Conference Board survey of job satisfaction levels in the U.S. According to the nationwide survey, only 45% of Americans were satisfied with their work—the lowest level recorded in 22 years of the survey.
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