Drilling
Drilling Eng, Supt, Tool Pusher, Company Man, Roughnecks, Diesel Tech, Rig Movers, Heavy Equip, CDL Drivers, Mudmen, Welders, Electricians, Cement, Well Logging, Directional Drilling, Geologist
Frac’ing and Completion
Petroleum Engineers, Supervisors, Supt, Foreman, Safety, Site Management, Frac Crew, Heavy Equip, Maintenance Tech, CDL Drivers, Roustabouts, Crane Operators, Environmental Inspection
Compression Construction
Logging, Construction Managers, Welders, Helpers, X-Ray, X-Ray tech, General Labor, Land Clearing, Foreman, Pipeline Inspection, Engineers
Pipeline Construction
Construction Managers, Foreman, Supt, Petroleum Engineers, Pipe Fitters, Welders, Helpers, Inspectors, X-Ray, X-Ray Tech, General labor, Boreing Crew, Environmental Tech-Monitor Reclamation, Operational Landmen, Surveyors, Helpers, Civil Engineering
Water Management
CDL Drivers, Water Haulers, Hydrologist/Water Supervisor, Water Testing, Biologist
Overall
Environmental Technicians, Lawyers, Permitting Technicians, Road Crews, Heavy Equip, CDL, Local Liaison, Safety, First Aid, Security, Calibration Tech, Office Management, Clerks, Data Entry, Financial, Procurement, Inventory, Business Management, Accountants, Office Support, IT/Computer, Purchasing, etc.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Marcellus Shale: Pre-Drilling Phase Employment
Geological
Geologists, Hydro Geologists, Petroleum Engineers, Chemists, Cartographer, GIS Technicians
Seismic
Geophysicists, Project Management, CDL Drivers, Crew
Public Land
Water Management, Forester, Archeology, Biologist, Environmental Specialist
Mineral Rights
Landmen, Lawyers, Paralegal, Title, Lease Acquisition, Lease Admin.,
Permitting
Environmental Technicians, Lawyers, Permitting Technicians
Staking
Roadman, Surveyors, Civil Engineer, Civil Tech, Leasing Agents, Land Clearing, Heavy Equip. Operators & Techs, Logging
Water Management
Water Transfer/CDL Driver, Hydrologist, Techs
Geologists, Hydro Geologists, Petroleum Engineers, Chemists, Cartographer, GIS Technicians
Seismic
Geophysicists, Project Management, CDL Drivers, Crew
Public Land
Water Management, Forester, Archeology, Biologist, Environmental Specialist
Mineral Rights
Landmen, Lawyers, Paralegal, Title, Lease Acquisition, Lease Admin.,
Permitting
Environmental Technicians, Lawyers, Permitting Technicians
Staking
Roadman, Surveyors, Civil Engineer, Civil Tech, Leasing Agents, Land Clearing, Heavy Equip. Operators & Techs, Logging
Water Management
Water Transfer/CDL Driver, Hydrologist, Techs
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Confessions of an MTV Junkie
Last week, I had a nice long drive to North Central Ohio and back. I traded in John, Paul, George and Ringo for the 1980's channel on my XM Satellite Radio. Driving across I-80 (coincidence?), I soon realized that I know the words to every corny, crappy song ever made in the 1980's. How is this possible? When Billy Ocean's, "Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car," came on and I knew every word, the answer was clear. I spent way too much time as a kid watching MTV.
Seriously, if anyone would have asked me about any of the artists or songs from the 1980's, I would have been clueless. Yet, as soon as the sounds of those snappy beats and funky keyboards began to reverberate off the interior walls of my truck, each and every note, chord, word, AND video image came back to me. I can remember the frame by frame images of Europe's, "The Final Countdown," video more clearly than my son's first time on a bike or my daughter's first softball hit. Think about how scary that is!
Let's think about what this has to do with Career Development. Imagine if I, and the millions of other 30-somethings who spent 1000's of hours watching MTV, would have spent that time studying physics or literature or anything else. At a minimum, more of us would vote in the next Presidential Election than for the next American Idol. Don't get me wrong. I was a pretty well-rounded kid having played ball, picked at a guitar and read the occasional book. But I don't think I studied anything as much as I studied MTV videos. No wonder my generation in probably the least informed generation in the history of the USA. With the advent of Facebook, YouTube, Gaming and the myriad of other social media, one has to wonder what our next generation will be like.
My generation and the next should be among the world's most educated and well-informed group of Americans. iPads, WiFi, Cable TV, etc. give us all access to more information than the public library could ever possibly make available. What do we all use it for? I have a very bright...possibly brilliant...teenager who does not know John Wayne or Isaac Newton or even Marilyn Monroe. For goodness sakes! I thought it was a prerequisite for a teenage boy to stumble across Marilyn Monroe photos someplace! All of this really makes one wonder what we are all doing with the instant access to information that technology has afforded us. Is technology just distracting us from what is really going on? Our center was full of job seekers this week who keep telling me that 'nobody' is hiring. Yet, I got out of my dream and into my car, drove around and counted over 100 help wanted signs within a ten miles radius of our career center.
Seriously, if anyone would have asked me about any of the artists or songs from the 1980's, I would have been clueless. Yet, as soon as the sounds of those snappy beats and funky keyboards began to reverberate off the interior walls of my truck, each and every note, chord, word, AND video image came back to me. I can remember the frame by frame images of Europe's, "The Final Countdown," video more clearly than my son's first time on a bike or my daughter's first softball hit. Think about how scary that is!
Let's think about what this has to do with Career Development. Imagine if I, and the millions of other 30-somethings who spent 1000's of hours watching MTV, would have spent that time studying physics or literature or anything else. At a minimum, more of us would vote in the next Presidential Election than for the next American Idol. Don't get me wrong. I was a pretty well-rounded kid having played ball, picked at a guitar and read the occasional book. But I don't think I studied anything as much as I studied MTV videos. No wonder my generation in probably the least informed generation in the history of the USA. With the advent of Facebook, YouTube, Gaming and the myriad of other social media, one has to wonder what our next generation will be like.
My generation and the next should be among the world's most educated and well-informed group of Americans. iPads, WiFi, Cable TV, etc. give us all access to more information than the public library could ever possibly make available. What do we all use it for? I have a very bright...possibly brilliant...teenager who does not know John Wayne or Isaac Newton or even Marilyn Monroe. For goodness sakes! I thought it was a prerequisite for a teenage boy to stumble across Marilyn Monroe photos someplace! All of this really makes one wonder what we are all doing with the instant access to information that technology has afforded us. Is technology just distracting us from what is really going on? Our center was full of job seekers this week who keep telling me that 'nobody' is hiring. Yet, I got out of my dream and into my car, drove around and counted over 100 help wanted signs within a ten miles radius of our career center.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Community Development Creates Jobs, But Who is Applying?
My company runs an employment center in McKees Rocks, PA, which is just outside of Pittsburgh (learn more at www.thealbertinstitute.com.) McKees Rocks is a small town; in fact, a walk from one end of the main street to another is just about 1.5 miles. There are just over 6000 residents. About 19% of those residents are documented as unemployed.
Now, you can probably guess by those unemployment numbers that McKees Rocks is a small, poverty stricken town where crime is high and resources are low. Lack of education, limited transportation and just general disenfranchisement probably lead to high unemployment, right? To some degree this is true, but let me tell you what is really going on in this Small Town, USA.
We partnered with the McKees Rocks Community Development Corporation (CDC) in October of 2006 to open the employment center. The center serves about 150 job seekers per year, but those job seekers come from all over the Pittsburgh-area; they are not just McKees Rocks residents. Simultaneous to the employment center's efforts, the McKees Rocks CDC has made tremendous efforts to stabilize and revitalize the community. Those efforts include transformation of the neighborhood's shopping plaza, which drew in a new Rite-Aid, Aldi's and Subway. The CDC has recently been involved in helping advocate for and advertise the opening of a Bottom Dollar store. Now, the McKees Rocks CDC is helping to spearhead the development of an industrial park that will result in approximately 1000 new jobs for the town.
These efforts have generated 100's of new jobs. So many businesses in McKees Rocks are hiring. The steel fabricators and machine shops are seeking skilled and unskilled labor; the stores are filling retail positions. A temp-to-perm staffing agency has opened to help fill these positions. The community development efforts have, without a doubt, helped to generate new jobs. McKees Rocks is a great case study to prove that community development and employment go hand-in-hand. Yet, the unemployment rate is higher in McKees Rocks than in most areas around Pittsburgh.
So, we start this month's discussion around community development with this question: If community revitalization efforts and the trend for young professionals to live in small towns near big cities is happening all over the country, why aren't local residents taking advantage of the new jobs? I drove through my small borough on Saturday and counted over 30 different 'Help Wanted' or 'Now Hiring' signs. Everything from the local Midas to Pizza Hut to the small mom & pop coffee house is seeking workers, but cannot find applicants. The efforts to rebuild small towns seems to be generating jobs, but who is taking advantage of these employment opportunities?
Now, you can probably guess by those unemployment numbers that McKees Rocks is a small, poverty stricken town where crime is high and resources are low. Lack of education, limited transportation and just general disenfranchisement probably lead to high unemployment, right? To some degree this is true, but let me tell you what is really going on in this Small Town, USA.
We partnered with the McKees Rocks Community Development Corporation (CDC) in October of 2006 to open the employment center. The center serves about 150 job seekers per year, but those job seekers come from all over the Pittsburgh-area; they are not just McKees Rocks residents. Simultaneous to the employment center's efforts, the McKees Rocks CDC has made tremendous efforts to stabilize and revitalize the community. Those efforts include transformation of the neighborhood's shopping plaza, which drew in a new Rite-Aid, Aldi's and Subway. The CDC has recently been involved in helping advocate for and advertise the opening of a Bottom Dollar store. Now, the McKees Rocks CDC is helping to spearhead the development of an industrial park that will result in approximately 1000 new jobs for the town.
These efforts have generated 100's of new jobs. So many businesses in McKees Rocks are hiring. The steel fabricators and machine shops are seeking skilled and unskilled labor; the stores are filling retail positions. A temp-to-perm staffing agency has opened to help fill these positions. The community development efforts have, without a doubt, helped to generate new jobs. McKees Rocks is a great case study to prove that community development and employment go hand-in-hand. Yet, the unemployment rate is higher in McKees Rocks than in most areas around Pittsburgh.
So, we start this month's discussion around community development with this question: If community revitalization efforts and the trend for young professionals to live in small towns near big cities is happening all over the country, why aren't local residents taking advantage of the new jobs? I drove through my small borough on Saturday and counted over 30 different 'Help Wanted' or 'Now Hiring' signs. Everything from the local Midas to Pizza Hut to the small mom & pop coffee house is seeking workers, but cannot find applicants. The efforts to rebuild small towns seems to be generating jobs, but who is taking advantage of these employment opportunities?
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