Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. A survey party chief and an archeologist walk into a bar. Both get high-paying jobs in the oilfield!

But seriously folks, there are hundreds of jobs in this industry you would never associate with oil and gas. This week, we take a look at six of them.

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Positions

Class A or B CDL Truck Driver- Frac Services, Pilot Thomas Logistics – Odessa, TX

Survey Party Chief, Fenstermaker – Midland, Texas

Java Developer, Seneca Resources Corporation – McLean, VA, US

Corporate & Securities Paralegal, Frank’s International N.V. – Houston, Texas

Records Lead, Newfield Exploration – Houston, Texas Area

Archaeological Technician (On-call), Amec Foster Wheeler – Knoxville, TN, US

Mark’s Career Tip of the Week

Every journey is different.

Quote of the Week

Success is not a stereotype. Success is not a Ferrari. Success is not an automobile. It’s not a house. It’s not a place. It’s not money in the bank. It’s not a million dollars. That’s not success. Success is the continual unfolding of the design of your own life and pulling it off. That’s what success is. – Mr. Jim Rohn

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If you’re a senior oilfield oilfield leader who got laid off, you might think your career is over. But oil management jobs are everywhere.

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Positions

Senior Contract Consultant (6842), Statoil – Houston, TX, US

Requirements Management Process Leader, GE Oil & Gas – Houston, Texas Area

Project Accountant, Jacobs – Fort Worth, TX, US

Project Engineer, Jacobs – Sugar Land, TX, US

Voice/Network Engineer, ConocoPhillips – Bartlesville, OK, US

HSE Manager, Dover Artificial Lift – Tulsa, OK, US

Mark’s Career Tip of the Week

Get involved with professional associations, volunteering or consulting.

Quote of the Week

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We’re 34 shows in and everyone’s still convinced there aren’t jobs in the patch. If that’s true, why is this oil services company hiring in droves?

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Positions

Material Handler, Weatherford – Odessa, TX, US

Cased Hole Wireline Junior Field Operator, Weatherford – Odessa, TX, US

Equipment Operator II, Weatherford – Odessa, TX, US

Development Specialist, Weatherford – Houston, TX, US

Global Asset Manager, Weatherford – Houston, TX, US

Mark’s Career Tip of the Week

When networking, keep talking.

Quote of the Week

You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar

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If you got laid off upstream, midstream oil and downstream are still hiring. Here is how to transfer your skills into Kinder Morgan.

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Positions

Operation Specialist, Kinder Morgan – Cropsey, IL, US

Maintenance Manager, Kinder Morgan – Saint Paul, MN, US

Associate Controller/Scheduler, Kinder Morgan – Galena Park, TX

Crew Leader, LNG, Kinder Morgan – Savannah, GA, US

Relief Plant Operator, Kinder Morgan – Iraan, TX, US

Mark’s Career Tip of the Week

Develop abilities that can’t be automated away.

Quote of the Week

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead. – Tom Peters

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You sure there aren’t any jobs in oil and gas right now? Mark found dozens of oil and gas tech jobs in ONE company. Inquire within.

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Positions

Service Desk Technician (Monday – Friday 1st Shift (7:30 AM- 4:00 PM), Seneca Resources Corporation – Alexandria, VA, US

iOS/Android Developer, Seneca Resources Corporation – Richmond, VA, US

Junior .Net Application Developer, Seneca Resources Corporation – Oakton, VA, US

Sr. Sharepoint Developer (Clearance required), Seneca Resources Corporation – Quantico, VA, US

Senior RBAC Architect (Senior Oracle Identity Access Management Architect), Seneca Resources Corporation – Alexandria, VA, US

Mark’s Career Tip of the Week

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Quote of the Week

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first. – Steven Pressfield

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Social Media Expert and LinkedIn Master, Melonie Dodaro, stops by to discuss how to win your oil and gas LinkedIn job search.

Background

Melonie Dodaro is a LinkedIn Expert, Keynote Speaker, Social Selling Evangelist, and CEO of Top Dog Social Media.

Inc. Magazine recently named her International #1 Bestselling book “The LinkedIn Code” one of the Top 10 Sales Books of 2015. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge of LinkedIn and social selling as a powerful lead generation tool to grow businesses.

She shifts gears with us today to share a treasure-trove of tips on how to win your oil and gas LinkedIn job search.

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Resources

The LinkedIn Code

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We’ve spent the past few weeks discussing how to get into the oil industry. Today, we focus on companies looking for senior oilfield leaders.

Correction! We still have the Oil and Gas This Week Podcast. For a strange reason unbeknownst to me I thought I said “This Week in Oil & Gas”, which of course became OGTW 🙂

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Positions

Project Manager – Supply Chain, DistributionNOW – Houston, Texas Area

Global Director of HRMS, Weatherford – Houston, Texas Area

Account Manager, BP – Houston, Texas

Business Development Manager (Advanced Applications – Ingenious), Wood Group Mustang – Houston, Texas

Senior Gas Pipeline Engineer, DeBary, Magnolia River – DeBary, Florida – Decatur, Alabama – Dallas, Texas

Mark’s Career Tip of the Week

Billions of dollars are wasted every year from pointless meetings. Don’t do that!

Quote of the Week

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings. – Dave Barry

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Oil internships are a great way into the industry. Mark gives tips to make it happen. We also discuss positions with Valero, Dow Chemical, Kinder Morgan and more.

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Transportation & Cost Analysis Intern (Summer 2016), Valero Energy Corporation – San Antonio, TX, US

College Co-op (Admin) — Procure to Pay, The Dow Chemical Company – Midland, MI, US

Manager, Completions/Commissioning, WorleyParsons – Houston, TX, US

Mobile Application Developer, Plains All American – Houston, Texas Area

CREW LEADER, Kinder Morgan – Fairless Hills, PA

Mark’s Career Tip of the Week

6 for 5 – Write a five-year plan that answers the following: Where do you want to be? What do you want to do? How much do you want to make? If you saw your ideal job on a website, what would the posting look like? What does your resume look like? Where do you want to be 10 years from now.

Quote of the Week

Nothing happens in the world that does not first happen in human hearts. – Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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For many, the path to a high oil field worker salary starts on a rig. Halliburton, Expro, and Exceed Oilfield Equipment are great places to start.

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Positions

Account Manager, Exceed Oilfield Equipment Inc – Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

US Burleson: A392 Material Coordinator II, Halliburton – Burleson, TX

Asst Operator Well Testing, Expro – Oklahoma

Business Applications Developer, TETRA Technologies, Inc. – The Woodlands, US-TX

FACILITY WORKER, Kinder Morgan, Inc. – Newport News, VA

Mark’s Career Tip of the Week

Jump on every opportunity to speak out and take initiative.

Quote of the Week

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Episodes 25 and 26 were late. Unacceptable! To make it up to y’all, we recorded a show dedicated to FREE resources for your oil careers job search.

Occidental careers offer opportunities like no other oil company, NOV needs a developer is Houston, and 3 opportunities for y’all outside of Texas.

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UC Berkley Webcasts

Swift Worldwide Resources

CSI Recruiting

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Petroplan

Mark’s Career Tip of the Week

Take risks. If you win you will be happy. If you lose, you will be learn. Learning leads to wisdom

Quote of the Week

If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you. ― John C. Maxwell

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