Oil and Gas Community

Looking for a new change? Found the perfect job? These factors mean nothing without the perfect covering letter to compliment your CV.

Why? Because 9 times out of 10 the first document any recruiter, agency or company will open will be your covering letter. This is your chance to tell your new potential new employer who you are, what you are looking for and what you can bring

Researching the company to find out what they are about and what there company goals are will help you to relate to them and find a common ground this is something any gas recruiter would be delighted to see. Here are 3 helpful tips for writing a great covering letter:

> Start with a brief personal statement. Include information about the role and the place you found it. Shouldn’t take up more than a few lines.

> Don’t be cold! Be personal! Unlike a CV the covering letter must be more personal to you and personal to suit the employer.

> Finish on a positive! Talk about why you wish to work for thecompany and which is the best way tocontact you to discuss the opportunity further.

A covering letter that reflects your personality and how you are likely to work within oil & gas shows the recruiter your passion for the position and show how much you really want it.

Below are a few points to make sure you include:

Your contact information – be sure to have your first and last name. Add your address phone and email address for the company to contact you on.

Date – It’s important to include the date your covering letter was recreated so a recruiter knows how old the covering letter is.

Body – This is the bonus and most important part of the covering letter, It is important you have a clear understanding of the role and you that you can show this within your covering letter.

There is no right or wrong way of writing a covering letter. It is these main facts that make it the Perfect covering letter. If you would like help in creating the perfect Oil and Gas covering letter or would like to apply for any of our roles then email me – charlotte@opussterling.co.uk.

Omega Resources, a leading recruitment specialist in the Oil and Gas Industry has today announced that they will be utilising the services of an innovative new recruitment website, www.oilandgaspeople.com

Omega Resources Director, Sharon Shepherd, said “We are delighted to be working with Oil and Gas People and to be included among the first recruitment companies to be using this fantastic new website. At Omega Resources we are continually developing and looking for new solutions to enable us to offer our clients and candidates the best possible service. We believe that Oil and Gas Peoples’ new model will offer us not only a more efficient service, but also huge cost savings over current oil and gas job sites.’’

Managing Director of Oil and Gas People, Kevin Forbes responded, “Oil and Gas People has seen significant growth over the last six months since we went live to recruiters. We are excited to add Omega Resources to an ever growing list of recruitment companies who can see the benefits our site brings. We offer genuine cost savings of up to 95% compared to other Industry job sites and a much Improved process that saves recruiters lots of time as well as money’’

Kevin went on to say, ‘’It’s sometimes hard to implement change and to introduce something new. Recruiters are used to the current offering of job sites to the point where they accept their flaws and the extra work they create. We are delighted that Omega Resources can see our vision and we look forward to working with them for many years to come.’’

Sharon rounded up by saying “When first approached by Oil and Gas People we were sceptical as we thought they were just another job site. After talking to Kevin about his background in the oil industry and trailing Oil and Gas People first hand, we were extremely impressed. The level of customer service on offer is refreshing and the site has some features that are a dream come true to recruiters”

oilandgaspeople.com allows recruiters to post jobs, view applicants and search a live database of candidates for free. Candidate’s profiles on the site are very detailed and offer a complete insight into the individuals work history, qualifications and requirements. An in-site candidate management system does away with the need for an inbox full of CVs and allows instant screening of candidates. At the final stage recruiters pay as little as £10 to release matched candidates contact details. There are no hidden charges and if recruiters don’t find the candidate they want, they pay nothing.

Oil and Gas People is currently offering free trials to all new recruiters. Contact info@oilandgaspeople.com to find out more or view their Media Pack at http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/media-pack.pdf

Omega Resources website can be found here www.omegaresources.co.uk

A new recruitment website is being marketed as the home for oil and gas jobs in Norway. Oil and Gas People, a UK based site has recently signed up several big recruitment companies in the region.

With the market starting to pick up and a buzz of activity in Europe, dozens of oil and gas positions are being listed in the region every week.

The site which only launched this year is proving a huge hit with candidates and recruiters in the industry. Following a new model, Oil and Gas People has clearly been designed to assist those looking for work in the oil and gas industry.

Oil and Gas People creates a live snap shot of the available work force and offers recruiters a process that allows them to post jobs and be instantly matched to available candidates for free.

Candidates benefit from their own free online CV that they can link to when applying for jobs anywhere on the net. By maintaining a live profile on the site candidates will be automatically matched to suitable oil and gas positions posted by recruiters.

To Search oil and gas jobs in Norway and internationally, visit the site at www.oilandgaspeople.com

A fantastic community site is also available atwww.oilandgascommunity.com which is a great place to network and exchange information with other oil and gas people.

 A new recruitment website is being marketed as the home for oil and gas jobs in Qatar. Oil and Gas People, a UK based site has recently signed up several big recruitment companies in the region.

With the market starting to pick up and a buzz of activity in the Middle East, dozens of oil and gas positions are being listed every day.

The site which only launched this year is proving a huge hit with candidates and recruiters in the industry. Following a new model, Oil and Gas People has clearly been designed to assist those looking for work in the oil and gas industry.

Oil and Gas People creates a live snap shot of the available work force and offers recruiters a process that allows them to post jobs and be instantly matched to available candidates for free.

Candidates benefit from their own free online CV that they can link to when applying for jobs anywhere on the net. By maintaining a live profile on the site candidates will be automatically matched to suitable oil and gas positions posted by recruiters.

To Search oil and gas jobs in Qatar and internationally, visit the site at www.oilandgaspeople.com

A fantastic community site is also available at www.oilandgascommunity.com which is a great place to network and exchange information with other oil and gas people.

The Official Launch of Oil and Gas People has been scheduled. From Tuesday the 9th of Feb Recruiters will be able to post oil and gas jobs for free and be instantly matched to suitable and available candidates.

Oil and Gas People aims to be the number one recruitment site for the industry by providing a better service to both candidates and recruiters. If you are looking for your next Oil Job then join today at www.oilandgaspeople.com and create your free online CV.

Welcome to our first news letter.

Our community site is really starting to take off. As we prepare to welcome our 1000^th member I thought I would give some updates on some very exciting recent developments.

As most members know the site is part of www.oilandgaspeople.com our new oil and gas job site, offering recruiters and candidates a brand new recruitment solution. Oil and Gas People will go live during January and we expect to be welcoming thousands more members to our community then.

We have added some cool new features to the community site and there are lots more to come over the coming weeks and months. Our new contact importer enables members to invite there contacts from popular social networking site LinkedIn and from email clients such as Hotmail, Yahoo Gmail and AOL. A lot of members have come to the site through LinkedIn so why not invite your contacts to join you on Oil and Gas Community. The bigger the network grows the more we will all benefit. If you are not already a member then join our LinkedIn group also.

This week we have added a feature called Twitter Connect. Any site member can link their profile on the site to their Twitter account and have there status updates on the site sent automatically to Twitter. New members can also join the site using their Twitter login and password. This is also a great way of driving traffic to the site so add your account today it only takes a second. Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with all site developments

Now that the site has plenty of members we have added a new chat room feature. This is in addition to the sites instant messenger and video chat feature. Anyone signed into the site can join the general chat room. It’s just another way to network with people in the industry.

We are in the process of building up a business directory on the site. If you own an oil and gas company or recruitment company, you can have a free listing in the directory by linking to www.oilandgaspeople.com from your website or blog. If this is of interest to you drop us a an email to info@oilandgaspeople.com

As the community site develops we intend to add lots of information pages for new starts and graduates to the industry. Soon we hope to introduce a document library where members can upload and download documents such as safety alerts, lessons learned, procedures, presentations etc. We hope this will become a really useful resource and enable the free sharing of information across the industry.

Finally and this is our most exciting announcement. From Monday this week, all candidates registered on www.oilandgaspeople.com our jobs site, will be able to use their profile on the site as a free online CV. You will be able to link to your edited profile from social networking sites, blogs, email signatures etc. Your edited profile contains no contact details or personal information. It will be fully optimised to appear in search engine results and it will maximise your exposure on the web.

A special link will be available that you can use when applying for jobs on other sites that will give recruiters free access to your full profile including contact details and documents. This is a first for any Jobs site and we expect it to be a very popular feature. The feature will be available to all candidates on www.oilandgaspeople.com whose profile is more than 60% complete.

Now is a good time to log in and complete your profile on the site. Remember recruiters don’t see your CV until the final stages. The more information in your profile, the more chance we will have of accurately matching jobs to you and the more information, the more keywords you will be found for in search engine results.

We hope you enjoy our new features. We thank you for being an early adopter of our sites and we look forward to matching jobs and networking with you in 2010.

Best Wishes for the New Year

Kevin Forbes
www.oilandgaspeople.com
www.oilandgascommunity.com

Marske’s Recruitment Business Manager for the UK, Lee Grimes said, ‘’We are delighted to be working with Oil and Gas People and to be included among the first recruitment companies to be using this fantastic new website. At Marske we are continually developing and looking for new solutions to enable us to offer our clients and candidates the best possible service. We believe that Oil and Gas Peoples’ new model will offer us not only a more efficient service, but also huge cost savings over current recruitment and job sites.’’

Managing Director of Oil and Gas People, Kevin Forbes responded, ‘’As a contractor who has worked for the last 6 years within the Oil Industry, I became frustrated at existing recruitment sites. They offer candidates very little in the way of service and only add to a recruiters work load, in that they have to spend a lot of time sorting through irrelevant CV’s, often received in response to traditional job ads.’’

Kevin went on to say, ‘’It’s sometimes hard to implement change and to introduce something new. Recruiters are used to the current offering of job sites to the point where they accept their flaws and the extra work they create. We are delighted that Marske can see our vision and that they are prepared to support the site from the offset.’’

www.oilandgaspeople.com aims to offer a more efficient service by allowing recruiters to post jobs for free on the site. Jobs posted will be automatically matched to suitable and available candidates and both sides will be required to confirm their interest in each other, before any candidates contact details are released. It’s a process that is totally free and allows recruiters the best possible chance of placing a candidate before they make a small payment to release matched candidates details.

Candidate’s profiles on the site are very detailed and only candidates who are actually available and actively looking for work will be shown. Candidates can link to their profiles using them as a free online CV and as a place where they can store all of their employment documents.

By removing the processing of hundreds of irrelevant CVs from a recruiter’s workload, Kevin Forbes hopes that candidate plus in essence, recruiters, shall once again be offered a more personal, direct and less time consuming service.  The old complaint regarding recruiters never getting back to candidates shall be placed in the past, along with the old-fashioned traditional job board models.

Each candidate selected for a position will receive regular updates through the site and they can be safe in the knowledge that they have full control over their personal details and will no longer be bothered with cold calls about irrelevant jobs.

More details about Marske Site Services can be viewed on their website www.marske.com and more details on why Oil and Gas People is better for recruiters and candidates can be found here http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/about.asp

Oil and Gas People is different from other oil and gas recruitment sites. We follow a totally new model that has been designed from the offset to offer a better solution to candidates and recruiters. The site has been developed by people who work in the industry and have a real understanding of the frustration often felt by job seekers and recruiters, when using existing recruitment sites.

Traditional oil recruitment sites charge recruiters an arm and a leg, for access to their candidate databases and for job postings. They are inefficient and out dated, often creating lots of extra work for recruiters as they have to manually sort through hundreds of CV’s many of which wont even meet the basic requirements for the advertised position. When searching candidates it’s impossible to know which are available and which are not. Many hours are spent cold calling candidates and screening people by email and phone. It’s a process which is expensive, frustrating, time consuming and thanks to www.oilandgaspeople.com, now outdated!

From a candidate point of view, just how frustrating is it? having to search through job sites every day, looking for the latest positions, filling out cover letters and applying for jobs. Often you won’t even receive a response or acknowledgment. How about all the irrelevant job alerts that fill your inbox and cold calls you receive about positions that are of no interest to you.

Oil and Gas People solves all of these problems and more! With our site, recruiters post positions for free and are then automatically matched to suitable candidates who meet their exact requirements. Candidates build detailed profiles on the site that offer a complete insight into their requirements, training, qualifications, availability and work history. A sample candidate profile can be viewed here

These profiles are visible to recruiters minus a candidates contact details, totally free of charge. After posting a position on the site, recruiters can instantly view all the candidates profiles who most closely meet their requirements. They then click just one button to send there job description to their chosen candidates. Candidates contact details are safe until they view the position and decide to be put forward. After accepting a position all candidates contact details and certificates will be available to the recruiter. They even receive an edited CV which they can forward to the end client totally free of charge!!

Recruiters will only ever pay a fee when a candidate is matched to a position and accepted into the role or for an interview. We give recruiters the best possible chance of a return for their money before charging them. By the time they need to pay a fee they will have confirmed their interest in the candidate, the candidates will have confirmed their interest in the role and the job will have confirmed their interest in the candidate. It’s a unique three match process that is instant and totally free to every recruiter and candidate.

Other sites constantly publish figures about how many candidates they have in their database. What use is hundreds of thousands of registered users, if only ten percent of them are actually available at any given time? Why should it be up to the paying customer to work through the database and find out who is available?

With www.oilandgaspeople.com candidates will be required to log in and update their profile and availability at least every 2 months or they won’t automatically appear in search results. We will never boast about how many outdated CV’s we have. Just how many high quality candidates profiles we have, who are actually available for work and actively looking!

Candidates can also benefit from our social networking site http://www/oilandgascommunity.com which allows members to exchange information and network with oil and gas people around the world

There are many more reasons why we are better for recruiters and candidates. Don’t just take our word for it though. Sign up today and see for yourself!! www.oilandgaspeople.com

A new website is set to change the way oil companies and agencies recruit employees. Launched to candidates at Offshore Europe and due to go live to recruiters soon, http://www.oilandgaspeople.com raises the bar to new levels with their bold and very unconventional recruitment model that is the cause of much concern to existing oil and gas job sites.

Designed from the very offset to offer a better solution for recruiters and candidates, www.oilandgaspeople.com will minimize a recruiter’s work load whilst speeding up the process of finding suitable candidates. No longer will recruiters need to advertise positions online, wait for candidates to respond and then have to spend days sorting through masses of CV’s often received. Oilandgaspeople will instantly match suitable candidates to positions uploaded by recruiters.

Candidate matches will be instant and very accurate, due to the vast amount of information held on each candidate. We can match candidates based on their experience, qualifications, training, location, personal requirements, visas held, salary expectations, previous companies worked for, job title, availability, project experience, industry experience and more… Recruiters can even prioritise each requirement to get supper accurate matches!

Candidates no longer have to continuously search job sites, they are safe in the knowledge that if a suitable position is posted that meets their requirements then they will be automatically put forward. Candidates will maintain complete control over their contact details by having to confirm their interest in each position, before the recruiter receives their contact details. This process means candidates no longer receive cold calls about irrelevant positions and recruiters can instantly find suitable candidates.

What makes oilandgaspeople.com really different is that the above process is completely free! Recruiters no longer have to pay thousands per year to access a data base of candidates, nor do they have to pay hundreds of pounds each time just to advertise a position. Oilandgaspeople.com will only ever charge a fee when a candidate is placed in a position or accepted for an interview.

Recruiters can confirm a candidate’s interest and carry out pre screening through the site before receiving their edited CV for FREE. If the candidate is accepted for the position then recruiters pay a small fee for that persons contact details at the final stage. For convenience candidates can also upload all their certification, qualifications and employment documents to their profile, these will automatically be sent to the recruiter once a match is confirmed.

Oilandgaspeople.com aims to go beyond the services of other job sites. We hope to be announcing some key partnership agreements in the near future that will allow us to offer contractors and consultants in the industry, a complete solution for their business management. LTD company insurance will be provided through the site at very competitive rates and exclusive offers will be available from accountancy and pay role firms.

To show our commitment to the industry we have recently launched www.oilandgascommunity.com which is a social networking site aimed at improving networking and communication between oil and gas people worldwide. The site will allow the sharing and free exchange of lessons learned, incident alerts, lateral learning and safety bulletins. A safety document library will soon be offered along with lots of information pages for new starts to the industry.

More information on www.oilandgaspeople.com and why we are better for recruiters and candidates can be found here - http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/about.asp

With the current down turn in the oil industry and a recent trend for pay cuts and pay offs, a record number of people in the industry are now seeking employment. The decline in oil prices has lead to projects being put on hold and some projects being cancelled altogether. Major oil companies are looking to reduce costs, and in doing so are cutting their work force.

This has an immediate impact on the recruitment industry, with some recruitment companies reporting half the amount of positions and double the amount of available candidates, compared to this time last year. With the market even more competitive than ever before recruitment companies are also looking to cut costs. Unfortunately this isn’t so easy as in a down turn, recruitment agencies work loads actually increase, as more people seek employment.

Most recruitment companies covering the oil and gas sector use sites like oilcareers and oilandgasjobsearch to find candidates and advertise positions. These sites are so well established that they are a must have resource for recruitment companies. They charge extortionate rates and do nothing to help recruiters cut costs. They know there model works and they know recruiters have to use them, as there is no alternative! Until now…

www.oilandgaspeople.com is a new recruitment site developed by Kevin Forbes, a contractor who works in the Oil Industry. Kevin seen the problems faced by recruiters and also the frustration faced by candidates seeking work. He says: “Oilandgaspeople fills a gap in the market and offers a solution that is genuinely better for recruiters and candidates”.

No longer do recruiters have to pay for job postings and access to a database. Candidates benefit by being automatically matched to positions that they meet the requirements for. Candidates don’t have to browse for new jobs every day and they will never miss out on suitable positions. Recruiters don’t need to wait for candidates to reply to job postings and no longer have to sort through hundreds of irrelevant CV’s often received in response to job ads.

The best thing is the above process is totally free, with recruiters only ever paying a fee when they have a candidate match. There are no hidden fees and the site includes many features that other job sites charge for, for free!

Oilandgaspeople has been created from a clean slate; the site follows a new model and has been designed to offer a better solution for candidates and recruiters. We aim to be the largest oil and gas job site, which we will achieve by working with recruiters and candidates, listening to feedback received and building a site that works for Oil and Gas People and not for the media companies profiting vastly from other sites!

To prove our commitment to the industry we have also launched a community site that will allow oil and gas people the world over to network and exchange information. www.oilandgascommunity.com aims to create safer work environments by allowing oil and gas people world wide to learn from each others experiences, mistakes, lessons learned and to share advances in technology and improved work methods.

www.oilandgaspeople is live to candidates now and will be live to recruiters soon.

More information on how the site benefits recruiters and candidates can be found here http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/about.asp