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[lalonguecarabine]

Bump. I'm hurting for some cash

The Houston crew wanted me to ask you how desperate you are for cash, and also if you own a miniskirt.

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

The Houston crew wanted me to ask you how desperate you are for cash, and also if you own a miniskirt.

Ha, I'm getting closer to the point where this might be acceptable.

 

[1slow01Z71]

If you get desperate I may be able to get you a job being a construction inspector. No experience needed but you'll start off at the bottom of the totem pole. Pay is ok and you work a lot of hours but might not be a bad deal til you get something in your career field. The office is in oak hill though.

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

Lots of hours and no experience needed?

PM sent.

 

[Jakashh]

The Houston crew wanted me to ask you how desperate you are for cash, and also if you own a miniskirt.

Ha, I'm getting closer to the point where this might be acceptable.

lalonguecarabine you bastard you never PM'd us to let us know that he said it might be acceptable

 

[LJH]

PM sent

 

[Wolfwood]

probably next month i need a big pole erected and stabilized in my back yard. not sure how long in all it is... Is Charlie int his thread? he knows how long it is, i got it from him.


(hello Out of Context thread --facepalm*

new braunfels location.

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

I read the first few words of the first sentence, and thought it was going to be a joke. Let me know more next month, I have an interview on Friday so I don't know where I'll be after that, so I don't want to commit just yet.

 

[Wolfwood]

no problemo.

 

[mosin]

Have you tried putting in with Schlumberger? They are doing quite a bit of hiring. Just be prepared to relocate. Probably wouldn't hurt to drop lines to Haliburton and all of the others as well.

Finding any job is hell right now, I was lucky and worked in my field in high school and through college.

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

Have you tried putting in with Schlumberger? They are doing quite a bit of hiring. Just be prepared to relocate. Probably wouldn't hurt to drop lines to Haliburton and all of the others as well.

Finding any job is hell right now, I was lucky and worked in my field in high school and through college.

Yes. And I recently checked my application status and I'm still under review. I've also applied to a few with Halliburton, to no avail. These processes are just very lengthy it seems, and they take forever to try and get people on.

 

[mosin]

Yes. And I recently checked my application status and I'm still under review. I've also applied to a few with Halliburton, to no avail. These processes are just very lengthy it seems, and they take forever to try and get people on.

If you don't get hired on through a college job fair, yes it can take a long time. I know personally someone who got a phone call 2 years after application. Time from that phone call to being on a plane for 3 months of training and relocation was around a month though.

 

[mosin]

Also you should be aiming for Field Specialist, and Field Engineer Positions. Schlum. scooped up every one that applied with them from my class for those positions.

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

If you don't get hired on through a college job fair, yes it can take a long time. I know personally someone who got a phone call 2 years after application. Time from that phone call to being on a plane for 3 months of training and relocation was around a month though.

Yeah, I definitely don't have 2 years lol.

Also you should be aiming for Field Specialist, and Field Engineer Positions. Schlum. scooped up every one that applied with them from my class for those positions.

I applied to the Field Specialist position, and I'm waiting to hear back on that. I was denied for the Field Engineer position. I also have two more positions I've applied to with them as well. They were real quick to tell me no on the Field Engineer position though.

 

[mosin]

Yeah, I definitely don't have 2 years lol.
I applied to the Field Specialist position, and I'm waiting to hear back on that. I was denied for the Field Engineer position. I also have two more positions I've applied to with them as well. They were real quick to tell me no on the Field Engineer position though.

Yeah they are pretty funky about their "engineer" positions. Not suggesting you wait around two years, just don't be surprised to get an offer out of the blue down the road.

I put in for probably 500 jobs when I graduated. That's with at the time 7-8 years of experience in the field working full time and part time on top of my bachelors. Of those i had 3 hits, one interview, one interview with a low ball offer, and then the job I took. Times are definitely rough but better now than they were even in '11 when i was searching.

USAjobs.gov is the site for Fed jobs if you want to look into that. They play pretty fast and loose with what qualifies you for a job in a particular field. Also the system is highly automated so plug in lots of "key words" into your resume. Also you have the option to create several resumes, take advantage of that, pick a couple fields and tailor separate resumes to them, one for chemical engineering, one for maybe environmental stuff, and whatever else you think you can do with your degree.

Monster, Indeed, etc. seemed to be worthless. I'm sure you've caught onto that already. Two of my three interviews came from me contacting the company after googling up companies doing the work I was interested in.

 

[stdreb27]

Another thing you might look at is rigzone.com


And try and find a listing of all the minor oil companies and just email them your résumé.

 

[mosin]

Another thing you might look at is rigzone.com


And try and find a listing of all the minor oil companies and just email them your résumé.

I had no luck there by my field isn't very tied into to oil company work either. I'll offer this piece of advice though, on rigzone there is the carreer center section but also there is a directory of companies. I'd sift through those company websites and dig around to see if they have jobs they are not advertising on rigzone

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

Actually, I use Indeed the most. It allows me to keep up with new job postings. I use Indeed, SimplyHired, Usajobs, WorkinTexas, Monster, and Careerbuilder the most. Every other day, I'll use a general google search with various keywords. WorkinTexas takes the longest, because it's the most "primitive" of the bunch, and I use several different keyword combinations to find the correct positions. The rest, minus Google, allow me to search based on date, which keeps everything organized.

So far, I'm at one legitimate interview and two with staffing agencies, which have been screwing around with me ever since. The one legitimate interview is in limbo right now, and I plan to contact the hiring manager tomorrow or Wednesday to follow up(I can't remember if he said he would contact me last Friday or this Friday, but I don't think it will matter if I just call to follow up). Also, I have (another) position at Chevron to which I applied for and managed to get a referral from within the company, that closed last Friday so I assume I'll receive an email sometime this week with either good or bad news. So far, from them, it's primarily been bad news even with the referral.

I don't really have a good estimate on how many jobs I've applied for. I've been actively applying since May '12, which was before graduation, and ramped it up hardcore in July-August '12 during graduation. I'd give a conservative estimate at easily 600 job applications. I haven't been able to keep up with all of the companies I've applied to, but there are some where I was in application status limbo for several months before the position was canceled. The most noticeable have been GE and Boeing for that.

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

Another thing you might look at is rigzone.com


And try and find a listing of all the minor oil companies and just email them your résumé.

I had no luck there by my field isn't very tied into to oil company work either. I'll offer this piece of advice though, on rigzone there is the carreer center section but also there is a directory of companies. I'd sift through those company websites and dig around to see if they have jobs they are not advertising on rigzone

I've frequented Rigzone, but never thought of that. I'll get on that then. Good idea.

 

[mosin]

I've frequented Rigzone, but never thought of that. I'll get on that then. Good idea.

Look up forums and societies in the field as well, usually you can find long directories of companies that way. It's just a #s game.

I've been actively applying since May '12, which was before graduation, and ramped it up hardcore in July-August '12 during graduation. I'd give a conservative estimate at easily 600 job applications.

I know the feeling, I found a job in about 4 months thankfully, my now wife took over 2 years from graduating with her first bachelors to getting a job in her field of study. Another friend of mine is coming up to the one year mark, working a part time gig in his field. He can't find full time work.

Competing fresh out of college against people with college plus a decade of experience willing to work for peanuts to put food on the table is not a fun time at all for new grads.