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Text II
How To Start A Career In The Oil And Gas Industry: What Employers Say
By Katie Weir
From Talent Acquisition Specialist, Campus
Talisman Energy
How to start your career, step by step
Fix up your resumé – take it to your career
centre at your university and they’ll help you.
Write a compelling cover letter that speaks to
your best qualities – save the pretentious language
5 for your English papers.
Join a professional association and attend
their events – if you feel uncomfortable attending
alone, try volunteering at them. By having a job to do,
it gives you an excuse to interact with the attendees,
10and an easy way to start up a conversation the next
time you see them.
Do your research – I can’t stress this enough. I
want students to apply to Talisman, not because we
have open jobs, but because they actually have an
15interest in what we’re doing, and want to be a part of it.
Be confident, but stay humble – it’s important
to communicate your abilities effectively, but it’s also
important to be conscious of the phrase: “sense of
entitlement.” This generation entering the workforce
20has already been branded with the word “entitlement,”
so students will need to fight against this bias from the
very beginning of any relationship with people in the
industry – be aware that you will need to roll up your
sleeves and work hard for the first couple years, and
25you will be rewarded in the end.
Retrieved and adapted from URL: <http://talentegg.ca/incubator/2010/11/29/how-to-start-a-career-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry-what-employers-say/>. Acess on: February 14, 2012.
The fragment that closes Text II, “be aware that you will need to roll up your sleeves and work hard for the first couple years, and you will be rewarded in the end.” (lines 23-25), implies that one must