Working Smart exhibiting at PETEX 2010
Working Smart will be exhibiting at the forthcoming PETEX Conference held in Earls Court 2 in London on 23rd – 25th November 2010.(more...)

The first Graduate Career Centre PETEX 2010, 23-25 November Earls Court 2

To attract students and graduates into the oil and gas industry the PESGB and Working Smart Limited are delighted to announce for PETEX 2010 the first dedicated Graduate Career Centre at a UK industry event.

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Working Smart forms new consortia linking academia and industry
Since 1996, Working Smart has been actively involved in several initiatives to improve collaboration between academia and the oil and gas industry with the objective of securing the future supply of geoscience and engineering graduates. A recent initiative was the launch of the specialised petroleum graduate recruitment site www.graduate-smart.com.(more...)

Working Smart launches specialist graduate recruitment web site
14th May 2008 – Working Smart ltd has launched the first specialist graduate recruitment web site for the upstream oil and gas industry. www.graduate-smart.com connects students and graduates to a world of geoscience and engineering employment opportunities and much more. Support for this new site has already been received from leading universities, international industry institutions and E&P societies.(more...)

First Break Recruitment Article
An article entitled “Graduate Recruitment: addressing the challenges” by Deirdre O’Donnell, Managing Director, is in the May 2008 edition of “First Break”, a publication of the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE).(more...)

Recruitment Scam Warning
Working Smart has recently received two bogus requests for registration as “Employers”, one posing as a representative of an oil company and the other as an engineering company. In both cases, Working Smart immediately contacted the companies involved, and both confirmed that the persons attempting to register were not employees.(more...)

Graduate Recruitment Survey Results
London, 18 September 2007. Many thanks to the Companies that contributed to our research into industry policies, preferences and processes for recruiting University graduates. The results were presented at Careers Workshops during the Geological Society Bicentenary Conference, 10-12 September 2007. These workshops introduced A-level students and undergraduates to the prospects on offer for a career in Earth Sciences and provided encouragement and practical advice on how best to secure a position in E&P related companies.

The results are available at Graduate Recruitment Research (109kb pdf).

New Recruitment Services
After 11 successful years specialising in delivering recruitment services to the oil and gas exploration industry, I am pleased to advise that Working Smart is extending its recruitment services to cover oil and gas design & production engineering activities. This is as a result of a substantial number of related candidates on our books actively seeking new job opportunities in this arena.(more...)

First Break Recruitment Article 2007
An article entitled “The Real Challenge: a viable business needs an effective workforce” by Deirdre O’Donnell, Managing Director, is in the May 2007 edition of “First Break”, a publication of the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE).(more...)

Staff mobility increasing
A hot month for the E&P recruitment market
London, 1 August 2006 – For Working Smart, July 2006 was a record month, with a greater number of new candidates registering on the company database than in any month of its 10-year history. The system now contains details of the skills, competencies and work preferences of over 17,000 E&P professionals from more than 158 countries actively seeking new employment opportunities. (more...)