Oil Rig Vacancies – How To Find Out Which Drilling Rig Is Hiring

Are you looking for oil rig vacancies? This is a good time to look for jobs with oil drilling companies because oil is selling above $70 per barrel, hence driving oil companies to drill more oil wells. Obviously, more drilling means a need for more workers on the oil rigs. But how do we find out which drilling rig is hiring?

First, there are the usual ways which most job seekers use – scanning jobs advertisement section of the newspaper, looking on the internet and posting their resume on job boards like Monster. These techniques have the same pros and cons, namely, that you will get the same results as everyone else doing it. In good times, everyone will get the same above average results and most job seekers will eventually get hired for oil rig vacancies. In tough times, everyone will get the same mediocre results and most job seekers will remain unemployed. If you are happy getting the same results as everyone else, you can stop reading here.

Second is networking, i.e. talking to anyone and everyone you know. Open your mouth and tell them that you are looking for drilling rigs jobs. Job seekers who need to be told this probably do not have any connections with someone in the oil and gas drilling industry. Nevertheless, if you put in enough work to talk to enough people, someone will know someone who knows which drilling rig is hiring and will be able to give you a reference or recommendation. If you cannot find at least a hundred family members, friends and acquaintances to talk to, you probably do not want to find an oil rig job badly enough. On the other hand, it is also fair to say that if you like talking so much, maybe a career in sales or politics may also be suitable for you.

Third is a bit special. If you only want oil rig employment on dry land, then go fishing for oil rigs. An important point is that you need to be living within driving distance of oil fields. If there are no oil fields in your state, this method does not work. Anyway, what you need to do is get a detailed map of your state. Draw up a search grid on the map and start driving around. If you already know the location of some oil fields, visit them first. If not, search each grid on the map one by one. When you find an oil field, go to the person in charge of each oil rig and talk to him. Ask him if he has any oil rig vacancies. Note that on some oil fields, every oil well is owned by or operated by the same company, so you may only need to talk to one person. On other oil fields, there could be more than one owner or operator and you could have several chances to find oil rig roustabout jobs. This is really a brute force method, but it often lets you find oil rig vacancies before they get advertised.

Fourth is another brute force method – mass submission of your resume to oil companies and oil drilling contractors. There are businesses which have a large list of the contact numbers and email addresses of the rig managers and HR officers of the oil companies and oil service contractors (or so they claim). Basically, you pay them to submit your resume to all the companies that may be hiring for drilling rigs jobs. They do not normally charge very much – their rates usually range from $20 to $100 depending on the company and the exact services you pay for. On the down side, while there are some companies which are effective, others are either incompetent or outright scams. Using these resume mass submission services is easy and can definitely work, but unless you are lucky you could blow a whole lot of cash before finding a reliable company.

Fifth is to cold call. To do this well, you need to find the Yellow Pages for each state and look for the contact numbers of all the oil companies, drilling contractors and service companies. Pick up the phone, call the company and find out how to reach the HR department, then call HR and ask if they are hiring for oil rig roustabout jobs or any other job on their oil rigs. It is a brute force method much like the fourth method above, except that you are doing all the work yourself. On the other hand, all you pay is the phone bill. You should be able to get your state’s Yellow Pages for free (or cheap). Your local library should be able to help you get the Yellow Pages for other states (if no one in your state is hiring).

Finding oil rig vacancies is not rocket science. However, if you want to get extraordinary results and find (roustabout) job vacancies that have not yet been advertised, it can require brutally hard work. Nevertheless, those prepared to put in the effort will find an honest job that pays as well as many white collar jobs.

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