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Skill shortages in the Oil & Gas industry

Posted on January 26th, 2010 in e-learning by abhisam

There has been talk of skills shortages at various levels and disciplines in the worldwide Oil & Gas industry. Partly this has been because many youngsters today no longer find a career in Oil & Gas as appealing, as was say, a decade ago. Now it is just one of many options. Despite this, the bean counters at many of these places did not see it coming and went ahead with the “downsizing” schemes that sharply reduced the available pool of talent. Now that the sector is picking up again, it finds serious skills shortages. Instead of blaming anybody, what the industry insiders can do is to consider upgrading their workforce skills by using modern technology, namely e-learning, m-learning and other ways to quickly bring upgrade skill levels of the existing workforce.

The video below says a lot.