subject: 4 Ways To Get Higher Paying Offshore Drilling Rig Jobs [print this page] When you go looking for high paying jobs in offshore oil rigs, you will observe that most of them are in foreign countries and six-figure salaries are only given by those companies after careful consideration of the worker's worth and skills. How then do you prepare yourself to land such a lucrative job?
*Start by enlisting yourself with some professional recruiting agencies that specialize in the oil sector. They carry exhaustive lists of all current openings and will go that extra mile to push your CV to their client's HRD department if they find it suitable. After all, your recruitment only ensures their revenue income.
*Use the most powerful search engines when searching online for highly paying jobs. You will be flooded with information but try and concentrate on the first few pages which usually carry the current openings. Also keep an eye out for recruiters who charge their clients and not the applicant and this could result in substantial cost savings for you.
*On the flip side, those companies that charge a fee are usually the more well known ones and you will have to fill in your details online. Just ensure that all your details are filed without any omissions. Your previous experience counts a lot as also a short note on why you should be hired acts as an additional factor in the recruitment process.
*Also remember that perseverance is the secret to finding that lucrative oil rig job. Enlist with as many reputed recruiters as possible so that even if one fails, the other might just back you up.
There is however, a popular misconception that every offshore oil rig job is well paying, no matter what your qualifications and experience are. On the contrary, most oil companies, small, medium or large have an elaborate screening process which takes various factors like education, hands on experience and crisis handling qualities into consideration first before offering a high pay packet to a candidate.
As an aspirant, therefore, you need to be aware of the latest oil rig operating procedures, laws and by-laws and technicalities of running an offshore platform. As a senior appointee at a much higher salary, moreover, you may have to take additional charge of the administrative procedures of day to day operations and your man management skills are of vital importance here. Just keep these few basics in mind and that dream job could just be yours.
