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Looking for oil rigs employment? Job hunting is always very stressful no matter how experienced you are. But when you are new to an industry, you really feel overwhelmed. You’ll wonder if there are jobs available (there are – Exxon alone is spending $150 billion over the next five years on exploration and drilling), you’ll wonder if you managed to catch every advertisement for oil rig jobs, if your resume and cover letter is correct, or whether your interview will go well.

The most important fact you need to keep in mind when looking for any kind of job is that job hunting is a numbers game. The more job applications, cover letters and resumes you send out, the better your chances of landing an interview. Once you lend an interview, though, you are halfway to getting hired. Like all employers, oil service contract companies only call you for an interview when they are seriously looking for workers. Interviewing someone is expensive – it takes valuable time away from some supervisor or manager. Roughly speaking, you should get at least one job offer every time you attend five interviews.

In a strong economy, there are times you get hired on the spot – you may need to discuss your expected salary immediately and start work the next day. Anyone who attends 10 or 20 interviews and is rejected for all of them is probably suffering from what psychologists call “self-defeating or self-sabotaging behavior”. If this happens to you, you should look for professional counselling or psychiatric help.

Of course, if you are not getting any interviews, that’s a different matter. Maybe there is something wrong with you. Maybe you are doing something wrong. Or maybe you have been sucked into the great job board hoax. Especially in economic downturns, there are many fake job advertisements. Employers want cheaper workers, so they put up false ads to find out how many available workers are in the market. It’s a dirty trick, but it helps them to calculate what percentage of the salary of their current workers they can cut. It helps them to get cheaper workers.

In your interview, there are two important things you need to do – show them the attitude they expect, and convince them that you have relevant skills for the job. In terms of attitude, an oil rig worker needs to be tough and independent, needs to be a team-worker, needs to be able to get along with other people. In terms of skills, if you don’t have relevant job experience, try to relate some relevant LIFE experience. Basically, ask your interviewer what he expects from you, and try to relate anything you have done in the past that is relevant to the job. For example working on your uncle’s trawler during your vacations if you are applying for offshore oil rig roustabout jobs.

Are you serious about oil rigs employment? Then brainstorm your relevant life experiences before you even start writing your resumes. Remember to ask HR what you should wear for the interview. Keep your cool during the interview – showing passion is one thing, but lose your head and you won’t get hired. When you finish your interview, go home and figure out how you can do better the next interview.

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