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Editorial: Recruiting problems ahead

04/13/2009
The oil and gas industry fretted about recruitment of engineers and scientists while it was scrambling to hire them in the boom years that now are history. Now it’s fretting about the future supply of engineers and scientists as it lays them off by the thousands. At the RMI Oilfield Breakfast Forum in Houston Apr. 8, RMI Pres. Steve Jacobs asked speakers to identify their greatest immediate worry. Three of the four—chief or high-ranking executives of an oil company, a service firm, and a drilling contractor—responded with, as one of them worded the answer, “keeping talented people.” The fourth speaker, an investment analyst, said his main concern was the econ...
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