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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.

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.

With the present decline in the gas and oil industry along with the recent trend for pay offs and pay cuts, a vast majority of individuals are looking for better prospects. The down turn has resulted in fewer jobs but more people looking for work. It’s a difficult situation for recruiters, now more than ever they are being inundated with CV’s from potential candidates. Recruiters work loads are increasing at a time when they themselves are trying to cut costs. It is difficult for recruiters to cut costs as there is lots of administration work associated with registering new candidates and from reading through masses of CV’s received for the few vacancies that they have.

 

The oil and gas market is already showing signs of recovery fueled by the rising oil price and the announcement of new discoveries and prospects, in countries where the doors have traditionally been closed to foreign oil companies. Recruiters don’t want to be turning candidates away when they could have hundreds of vacancies to fill in a few months time.

 

So how do recruiters cut costs? Traditionally most recruitment companies rely on job boards to find candidates. The current model these sites follow sees a job being posted and candidates asked to send their CV in response. With so many people desperately looking for work these sites make it easy for anyone to send their CV. More often than not most of the CV’s received are irrelevant with the individual not even meeting the basic requirements for the position! It creates lots of unnecessary work for recruiters as each application has to be reviewed manually and logged in their system. The irony is that these recruitment sites charge vast amounts of money for job posts and access to their candidate database. They do very little to assist with the reduction in a recruiters workload and can add to fruitless time wasting and frustration on the recruiters part.

 

Recruiters now more than ever are turning to their own databases to find candidates. This however presents another problem, keeping an in house database up to date is near impossible! How do recruiters know which candidates are actually looking for work?? Lots of time is spent cold calling potential candidates and sending emails. It’s a lengthy process that not only takes time but costs a great deal of money, employees time has to be budgeted for, plus international calls soon amount to huge phone bills. End case scenario is that you will end up paying to place the position on a job site anyway, as a  result of your own candidate database failing to produce the match required for the vacancy.  This in effect doubles the cost and could see you loosing the position as most companies now use more than one recruitment company. Speed in finding candidates is essential.

 

So what’s the solution? How about a site where recruiters can post oil and gas jobs for free? A site where suitable candidates can be automatically matched to positions and recruiters can view their matches for free? A site that offers a better solution and solves all of the above problems while offering a better service to candidates…

 

Enter into the market oilandgaspeople.com A site that has been developed by people in the oil and gas industry and has been designed to solve all of the above problems. Offering cost savings of up to 75% over traditional job sites and a process that makes finding suitable candidates painless and instant. All of the traditional admin work is done away with. Recruiters can post positions for free and then have that position instantly matched to suitable candidates. Candidates detailed profiles can be viewed for free and both sides confirm an interest in each other before an individuals contact details are released. No more cold calling candidates, waiting for reply’s to job ads and sorting through hundreds of CV’s. Just instant matches to suitable and available candidates!

 

oilandgaspeople.com offers recruiters the best possible chance of placing a candidate before we charge a recruiter. Our match process allows recruiters to search every part of a candidate’s profile. No longer do they have to rely on key word searches. Our candidates are required to update their availability every 60 days to stay live on the site. We will never boast about how many hundreds of thousands of candidates we have registered! Just how many up to date candidate profiles we have, who are actually available and looking for work. Recruiters will be able to download a matched candidates edited CV absolutely free of charge. This CV can even be sent over to their client for approval before a minimal fee of as little as £25 is charged for a candidates contact details.

 

Our service means candidates are not constantly browsing for jobs. Positions find them... They don’t get send hundreds of irrelevant job alerts and nor do they receive cold calls about positions that don’t interest them. Our candidate profiles can even be linked to and used as a free online CV. Click to view a sample candidates profile. All of a candidates employment documents can be attached to their profile thus saving recruiters even more time once a candidate is accepted.

 

Through personal experience and essential feedback from over 300 agencies during the past year, we can now offer a more efficient and affordable recruitment service. No other Oil Job site allows recruiters to post positions, match candidates, and access candidates profiles for FREE! We charge a very small fee to release a candidates contact details but only after we have given recruiters the best possible chance of placing that candidate. Our match process is instant and means recruiters can have suitable CV’s on a client’s desk within an hour of receiving the job.

 

Our model aims to fundamentally change the oil and gas recruitment market. Click here for more information on why we are better for recruiters and candidates.

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

Launching a brand new company at such a prestigious event as Offshore Europe would fear even experienced business men, but for Peterhead man, Kevin Forbes, it was the ideal launching platform for his new venture www.oilandgaspeople.com and an opportunity not to be missed!
 

Kevin a contractor, who works in the Oil and Gas Industry, became frustrated at the existing Oil and Gas recruitment sites and came up with the idea for Oilandgaspeople over a year ago. He says: “The launch at Offshore Europe was the result of over a years worth of research and months of web design work and testing. We consulted with lots of recruiters and agencies, to tweak the initial idea into what we have now. A solution that challenges the format followed by traditional job sites and offers a better more efficient service for Recruiters and Candidates.”

 

Oilandgaspeople allows candidates to build a profile. Essentially a complete insight into that candidates work history, qualifications, experience, training and requirements. Recruiters upload positions to the site for free and are automatically matched to available candidates. Candidates have to confirm they are interested in the position before a recruiter receives their edited CV for free.

 

This allows recruitment companies to put CV’s across to clients totally free of charge. The site even formats the CV and adds the recruitment company’s logo automatically. When a candidate is accepted for a position the recruiter simply logs in and pays a small fee for that candidates contact details. An unlimited access option is even available to larger recruitment companies that allows access to candidates contact details at an earlier stage.

 

Kevin says: “For years agencies have paid huge fees to other Oil Job sites, for access to what is essentially just a CV data base, and for posting job ads. Recruiters get very little for their money. Often the data base is out of date and recruiters still have to cold call potential candidates to find out who is available and who isn’t. When posting jobs, recruiters have to wait for candidates to reply and then sort through hundreds of CV’s, to root out the ones that meet their requirements. It’s a lengthy process and one that relies on the right candidate coming across their job posting in the first place.

 

Oilandgaspeople is essentially a dating service for candidates and recruiters. We ensure that candidates never miss out on a job that they meet the requirements for. Likewise for recruiters in that they find candidates instantly who meet their exact requirements. No more waiting for candidates to reply to ads, no more sorting through hundreds of CV’s and cold calling potential candidates. Just instant free matches and a very reasonable fee at the final stage, if the candidate is placed!

 

www.oilandgaspeople.com is live to candidates now and will go live to recruiters from the 5^th of October 2009. The site has many advanced and innovative features that genuinely make’s it better for recruiters, better for candidates and better for oil and gas people. As part of Oilandgaspeople, a new social networking and community site specific to the Oil Industry has also been launched. Join today for free at www.oilandgascommunity.com

                                                                           

A new recruitment site designed specifically for the oil and gas industries is set to revolutionise traditional employment resources and searching. Aberdeenshire based business - www.oilandgaspeople.com - aims to fundamentally change the oil and gas recruitment process by providing an accurate snap-shot of current vacancies, the workforce and its availability.

Oilandgaspeople.com provides a central point where recruiters can advertise the latest job vacancies and candidates upload their CVs.  The site, which goes live on 7^th September 2009, will fast-track and facilitate the process of matching the right person to the right job benefiting the recruiter, the candidate, and the employer. 

Having worked in the industry for over six years, oilandgaspeople.com developer, Kevin Forbes, used his experience of the sector and his frustrations with existing recruitment methods to devise and deliver a new alternative that aims to save time and money and increase candidate matching success. 

He says: “I found the system of using numerous job sites to search for vacancies fragmented and frustrating.  I would regularly spend hours at a time searching for positions which became even more difficult when I was working offshore or abroad with limited internet access.   

“I decided to take the issue into my own hands with a website to present my CV and background to potential employers and agencies directly.  As I saw immediate impact I expanded on the idea and www.oilandgaspeople.com is the end result.

“The launch of www.oilandgaspeople.com is good news for the industry during the economic downturn – it is a cost effective solution for recruiters at a time when reducing costs is of the utmost importance and it will also help those looking for work as they benefit from an efficient, free recruitment service.”

Oilandgaspeople.com is a cost effective means of advertising for recruiters.  There is up to a 75% cost saving over traditional job sites and if a match is not made, there is no fee to pay. 

When a new position is advertised, the site automatically matches candidates to the job, referring to the high quality, accurate and current candidate information it holds.  Recruiters then review candidate profiles, shortlist suitable candidates and ascertain who then wishes to be put forward for the job. 

For candidates, using the site is completely free.  They build their own profile on the website and their personal details remain secure, only to be released when they agree to a recruiter recommending them for a position.  An additional feature of Oilandgaspeople is the Oil and Gas Community, where site members can chat in the forums; create events, form groups and network with other oil and gas people from all over the world.

Oilandgaspeople will be launching at Offshore Europe and can be found in the Boyd Orr Hall, stand number 1658 from 8^th – 11^th Sept 09

Kevin Forbes is also behind the website www.hsepeople.com which was launched earlier this year, giving health and safety professionals from around the world the opportunity to network and exchange information.

 

For more information, please contact Kevin Forbes:

Email:  info@oilandgaspeople.com

Web:    www.oilandgaspeople.com