Excerpted from the Canada Career Guide
Canada’s oil patch is one sector that
is seeing a huge surge in demand for engineers and geologists. A
headline in one of Canada’s leading newspapers, The Globe and
Mail, paints the picture vividly: "Oil Patch Turnaround
Uncorks a Gusher of Jobs; Active Recruiting Has Taken the Place of
Cyclical Job Cuts." Against a backdrop of rising oil and gases
prices, Canadian employers in this sector are expected to increase
salaries and compensation. "There has been quite an increase in
salaries and compensation levels," says Scott Saxberg, president of
Crescent Point Energy Trust, whose properties involve oil and gas.
He also noted "a real shortage" of engineers with eight to 14 years
experience. "People are getting over $100,000 a year now, versus
probably $75,000 to $100,000 in the 1990s,” Saxberg stated.
Analysts are predicting huge job
growth in the oil and natural gas industries over the next ten
years, and this translates into the need for skilled workers – power
specialist engineers, project engineers, geologists, chemists,
geologists, technicians and managers.
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