If you want to start your careers as a Roustabout on offshore oil rig platform you will want to get the best possible start and find out how to get promoted on the new oil rig job. Have you ever seen how some of the people that are not necessarily the best at the job, still get promoted? It is much likely that they have a natural ability to influence people and be their friends at the same time.
Everybody is watching you particularly in the early days of employment. A good example of this is a Driller, that is searching for a Roughneck, and he is going to watch the Roustabouts when he gets the possibility and talk to others about the Roustabouts. He is also going to ask people he meets as he does his oil rig job, or in the 'smoko shack', he is also going to ask your direct boss.
The following goes for everyone that is searching for promotion into a different department in the oil rig industry. Whether it be a Roustabout who is searching for an oil rig job as a Roughneck or a qualified oil rig mechanic who is employed on the drilling rig platform as a Roustabout searching for a motorman's job.
If you want to get into the department you are skilled in, it isn't enough to present your certificates to the oil rig staff supervisor and hope they will think of you automatically when the next position for oil rig employer comes up. You must put great effort into pursuing the oil rig job you want, you have to constantly remind them of your skills and intentions.
You have to do whatever it takes, for example go and talk to each person in that oil rig department, get to know them on a friendly basis initially, but do tell them of your trade. Some employers are going to be wary of helping someone who maybe after their job on the oil rig.
So go carefully, try to make some friends and do not be too pushy. If possible arrange it with the head of the department you are interested in and the head of the department you are currently working for, for you to take some time off your present work to work in your skilled area.
A word of warning however, you are probably going to be on 3 months probation for your Roustabouts job on the oil rig platform, and it is up to your direct supervisor whether you stay or leave. So your 1st priority is to your present job, doing it well and waiting for the right chance to arise.
Everybody is watching you particularly in the early days of employment. A good example of this is a Driller, that is searching for a Roughneck, and he is going to watch the Roustabouts when he gets the possibility and talk to others about the Roustabouts. He is also going to ask people he meets as he does his oil rig job, or in the 'smoko shack', he is also going to ask your direct boss.
The following goes for everyone that is searching for promotion into a different department in the oil rig industry. Whether it be a Roustabout who is searching for an oil rig job as a Roughneck or a qualified oil rig mechanic who is employed on the drilling rig platform as a Roustabout searching for a motorman's job.
If you want to get into the department you are skilled in, it isn't enough to present your certificates to the oil rig staff supervisor and hope they will think of you automatically when the next position for oil rig employer comes up. You must put great effort into pursuing the oil rig job you want, you have to constantly remind them of your skills and intentions.
You have to do whatever it takes, for example go and talk to each person in that oil rig department, get to know them on a friendly basis initially, but do tell them of your trade. Some employers are going to be wary of helping someone who maybe after their job on the oil rig.
So go carefully, try to make some friends and do not be too pushy. If possible arrange it with the head of the department you are interested in and the head of the department you are currently working for, for you to take some time off your present work to work in your skilled area.
A word of warning however, you are probably going to be on 3 months probation for your Roustabouts job on the oil rig platform, and it is up to your direct supervisor whether you stay or leave. So your 1st priority is to your present job, doing it well and waiting for the right chance to arise.