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Oil Rig Recruitment agencies, will they work for you or against you? For you most of the time, but they can work against you and you must understand that they are not your friends…

This is a very grey area indeed, you have to be very careful when you dealing with free oil and gas recruitment agencies as the old saying goes, nothing in this life is for free…

I often get asked if recruitment agencies actually do anything to help you? The answer is yes and no…Let me explain.

Recruitment agencies are very slick and professional, depending who you are dealing with they can come across as helpful friends and or jumped up human resource type people who think you should bow down to them. The market place often determines their attitude.

Firstly, let me make one thing crystal clear, there are many, many recruitment agencies who are extremely professional and do their best to help you secure a new role on an oil rig as of course they get paid if they do so.

But in my own experience I can honestly say that on many occasions it is a mixture between being suitable for the job and how cheap or expensive you are. Of course I am mainly talking about being self employed.

Lets say that you have two self employed welders going for the same job, they are both suitably qualified with the same amount of experience, who would the recruitment agent recommend or put forward for the job?

There are a few factors to think about, if the agent has been offered a fixed fee no matter who they would recommend both welders would be put forward for the offshore position.

If the agent was given a figure to get a welder and their commission came out of that figure it may well be a different story…Why? Simply put, the agent would put forward the cheapest person to make themselves more money. It is known as the cheapest bum gets the seat and this is where some underhand tactics could take place.

It is also said that a recruitment agent would also even try and negotiate with the two welders to convince them the rate is not what they would expect. Of course the rate would remain the same, the only difference would be that the recruitment agent would pocket the difference and no one would be any wiser…

So there is pro’s and con’s to using oil and gas recruitment agencies to gain employment, you have to think about things before you speak to them as they will certainly be analyzing you…

There are many free sites out there but the problem is that everyone knows about them and the agents have their pick of who they wish to represent, when oil employment is hard to gain it can be a mine field trying to gain oil rig employment.

You also have to be aware of possible fictional roles, it is supposed to be illegal for recruitment agencies to advertise false jobs, I have heard that it did use to happen but it was clamped down on some years ago.

You can certainly wet your appetite and try the likes of  Rig Worker to test the market place, the only problem you have is time…How soon do you want a job offshore on the oil rigs? That’s a question only you can answer.

It certainly will not hurt to have a browse and list your credentials, I would only recommend that before you set off sending your details out that you do your research and get fully up to date with your resume and understand the playing field you are entering.

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