The new face of oil & gas – recruiting for 2020
The future of oil and gas depends upon recruiting more millennials as engineers. The sector’s failure may be down to perception rather than reality but that still matters, argues Brian Attwood.
The Royal Academy of Engineering’s #ThisIsEngineering campaign highlights, as others have done, the annual demand for thousands of engineers and technicians with core engineering skills, plus many more additional roles requiring an element of engineering skills.
Yet, recruiter Matchtech’s Voice of the Workforce, 2017: A report on the current perceptions and ambitions of the engineering community identified clear differences in the way that ‘modern’ sectors such as recycling were viewed, compared with traditional areas such as oil and gas.
Renewables was seen as a clear growth area by 42%, with power generation scoring 28% in second place. Oil and gas meanwhile scored a mere 14%.
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