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Career - Interview Advice
Keeping Cool About Career Growth
In the long term, the energy complex of companies continues to grow and jobs are being created. However, the growth is not a straight line, and we go through cycles of job creation and destruction. It’s typical during down times for people to be excessively pessimistic about careers, and in boom times, people feel that they never have to worry where the next job is coming from.
It’s desirable to have a longer-term plan about one’s career plus keep up with current changes and determine what effect they have on your career.
This page provides help on both the strategic and tactical aspects of career growth. It features some perennial advice and some current comments on what’s happening in the job market.
General
The Annual Job Cycle in Energy Firms
“On Finding a Job: When the Going Gets Rough”
Resume Writing Tips and Resources
The 2011 Job Market In Wholesale Energy
Tips for Employers--Recruiting in 2011 and Beyond
Approaching Companies When the Recruiter Can’t Help
The Bermuda Triangle of Resumes, that’s how a recent survey describes the corporate career websites.
Essentially all of our contacts among job seekers have found that sending a resume to a corporate website is useless.
One either gets no response or an automated response with no followup on the part of the corporation.
Read our survey on the topic by clicking on this link and learn how to approach a target corporation after seeing if a recruiter can help you.
Corporate Career Sites Survey
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Analytical Careers
“Getting That First Quantitative Job.”
Risk Management Careers
“What Some Risk Managers Are Looking For In Candidates”
Resources
Global Association of Risk Professionals www.garp.com. Note that GARP now has an Energy Risk Professional designation. Even for those who don’t plan to get the designation, it’s worth a peek at the topics covered in the exams and the core reading materials.
Professional Risk Manager Association http://www.prmia.org. The case studies that one can download are the classic high profile cases of what went wrong. For those of us who have been in the energy business since the 80’s, it’s amazing to think that some firms in the industry keep finding ways to lose money through flawed risk management strategies (or the absence of risk management strategies). These are required reading for serious risk management professionals.
CAREERS IN: Wholesale Power and Natural Gas Retail Energy Renewables
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