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If you are looking for offshore drilling employment, you need HR to read both your cover letter as well as your resume. First, you need to attract their attention. Then you need make them interested enough to read your cover letter. Your cover letter must make them desire to read your resume, and finally, your resume must get them to shortlist you for an interview.

Forget the perfect cover letter. There is no such thing. What turns on a particular HR officer will just bore a different officer. What formats they like best largely depends on which university they got their degree from. However, what can be definitely said is that the first half-page of your cover letter is the most important. It must contain at least one of these three powerful elements.

1. What Is Your Most Relevant Job Experience?

This is one of the major criterion HR uses to decide whether or not to trash your job application. When competition for an oil rig job is stiff, you need to immediately show that you are qualified for the vacancy. You have to put forward your most relevant prior job experiences and tie them to the job scope and qualifications listed in the job advertisement. Keep it clear, short and simple, and direct HR to your resume for more details.

Nothing beats qualified practical on-the-job experience, but if you don’t even have any relevant training then your chances are practically nil. The oil industry is of strategic importance to most industrialized nations, so there are often relevant courses offered by technical colleges. In the US, the Department of Labor’s JobCorps program offers some form of subsidy for disadvantaged youths. Some local state governments may also offer further subsidies. The UK is no different. In addition, ex-servicement also receive subsidies to train for the oil industry.

Training doesn’t come cheap, but it beats submitting a blank resume with no experience. When you go through regular channels, you won’t beat rivals who have relevant real job experience. On the other hand, every chance you grab to put Lady Luck on your side is a step closer to getting offshore drilling employment.

2. What Are Your Outstanding Points

Now that you have persuaded the HR personnel that you are qualified for the job, you need to tell them what makes you special and why they should open your resume. To do this, you need to show either more breadth in your experience, or more depth.

An example of showing more depth is having more years of experience than everyone else. For example, an offshore roustabout position may specify 2 years of relevant experience. If you have 5 years of experience, you’ll clearly beat out quite a lot of your rivals for the vacancy.

Another example would be rig welding jobs. Do you have a “6 GR” certification from CITB (UK) or certification from AWS (US)? Can you provide examples of welding particularly tricky joints that can be found on an oil platform?

How about more breadth? Let’s say you are looking for work in the motor room. Do you also have some experience or training in electrical work? Can you offer a two-in-one deal to HR? If the company hires you to be a mechanic, can you sometimes help out the oil rig electrician?

3. Start Work Immediately

No company likes to wait for a job candidate to become available. Just like you want a job now, they want a worker now! That means if you can start work immediately, you can sometimes trump a rival with better experience.

This isn’t the only point. Working of an offshore oil rig involves a lot of red tape. If you can show HR that you’ve already cleared all the red tape needed to hire you, they are more likely to put your resume in the “Call For Interview” pile. After all, it means you are saving them a lot of work.

So what kind of red tape do you need to wade through? That depends on where you are going to work and who you are going to work for, but here is a sample:

Firefighting
First aid
Helicopter underwater escape training
Offshore survival
Vaccinations
Passport
Visa
Relevant local union membership

You’ll note that some of these hurdles don’t make sense. That’s fine – government rules don’t always make sense, and things only get more complicated when you mix in the unions and trade associations.

Cover letters for offshore drilling employment must highlight your most important points and persuade HR to read your resume. Unless you are getting a job through the back door, your cover letter together with your resume can make or break your job application.

The pre-employment background check is becoming more and more common place. As employers work to protect their places of employment from individuals that aren’t the best for the job or could pose a dangers to others, these background checks happen to be the tool of choice. After all, your past can say a lot about the person that you are and the person that you are likely to be, too. Yet, if you don’t have anything to hide in your past, should you really worry about what happens when a background check is done on you?

You Don’t Want It

Even for many individuals that have nothing in their past to be worried about, this type of privacy invasion is enough to bother them. In most cases, you can refuse to have one done, assuming that it isn’t a legal requirement for the position with the home such as when you are working with children or in the police department. Yet, doing this could potentially stop you from being hired anyway. Someone that refuses a background check is okay, but someone else that applies for the same position with the same qualifications and passes that pre-employment background check with flying colors is more likely to obtain the position.

Another concern that many have is the fact that the information on their pre-employment background check could mistakenly provide the wrong information. Perhaps there is information on your background check that is wrong. You could be suffering without realizing why. Or, perhaps it will uncover something that is potentially harmful but shouldn’t have anything to do with the current position in question. Sometimes, information can be taken out of context by the investigator and it could, ultimately effect your position with the company. Even some information that may be illegal for the investigator to consider in the hiring process could turn up. Although they technically can not use this to not hire you, it may leave them with a bad taste in their mouths, which could sway them the other way for other reasons.

Background checks are a potential nightmare for some individuals. If you have nothing to worry about, or so you think, you should still run a background check on yourself to determine if there are any potential problems lurking there. Doing so can at least give you peace of mind. Everyone needs to know what is in their background check.

Employment Law: Miriam O’Reilly Wins Age Discrimination Case Against the BBC

Miriam O’Reilly has won her age discrimination case against the BBC after she was dropped as presenter of BBC One’s Countryfile.

53-year-old O’Reilly took the Corporation to an employment tribunal over claims that her age was the reason for her dismissal from the rural affairs show, which also let go of three other female presenters in their 40s and 50s.

Ms O’Reilly claimed she was axed from the show in April 2009 because she was -a woman of a certain age-, and furthermore, she claims she was -hounded out- of her other work commitments due to the negative publicity her departure from Countryfile had attracted.

The tribunal heard that a Countryfile producer had said to Ms O’Reilly: -You’re going to have to be careful about those wrinkles when High Definition comes in.- It was also claimed that a Countryfile cameraman had offered Ms O’Reilly a can of black hair dye whilst filming on location in June 2008.

Countryfile bosses insisted that the dismissal of four female presenters, one of them being Ms O’Reilly, was because the show needed a -refreshed- look as it was being moved to a prime-time slot on BBC One.

The tribunal upheld Ms O’Reilly’s claims of age discrimination and victimisation, although her claim for sex discrimination was dismissed. She is now set to receive a six-figure sum in damages from the BBC.

The BBC has apologised to Ms O’Reilly, who had worked for the Corporation for 25 years, in a statement, saying: -We accept the findings of the tribunal and would like to apologise to Miriam. We will be speaking to her.-

The statement also said that the BBC was -committed to fair selection in every aspect of our work-, and that their senior editorial executives would be receiving additional training on appointing TV presenters, as well as producing new guidelines on fair selection.

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The Guardian newspaper has reported that in 2009 almost 85% of nursing degree graduates found full-time employment, with 94% of those finding jobs as healthcare professionals.

Just over 74% of those nursing degree graduates working in healthcare went straight into nursing, while the rest took other roles supporting the delivery of healthcare, according to the report.

Of the nursing degree graduates who did not enter full-time employment: some opted for extra study, whilst others combined further study with work. Only 1.7 % remained unemployed.

Journalist Angela Foster wrote: Work placements give an insight into what it is like to work in a busy department and the skills needed. And a degree rather than a diploma puts you a step ahead on the employment ladder.

With this apparently high level of employability, particularly in the current economic climate, enrolling on a nursing degree has become an attractive option for many.

Margaret Holbrough, a careers adviser with Graduate Prospects, said:”Nursing graduates are trained to work within the health sector and other related environments with all types of patient, but often specialise in caring for particular types of patient, such as adults, children or people with mental health or learning disabilities.”

In addition to good career prospects, nursing degree students also benefit from a government funded bursary to help them meet the cost of studying.

The University of Southampton is just one higher education institution that is routinely flooded with applications to study for a nursing degree. It was the first university in the country to win accreditation for its Bachelor of Nursing, or BN, nursing degree courses in 2011.

Southamptons employability rates for nursing degree graduates in 2009 were an impressive 8% better than the average national statistic of 85% reported in the Guardian.

The government led by Maria Dolores Cospedal has provided more than 3.1 million employment workshops in the province of Ciudad Real

Spain, July 19, 2013 – The Minister of Employment and the Economy of the regional executive, Carmen Home, said that the center of excellence that the Government of Castilla-La Mancha launched in Tomelloso by the School of Industrial Organization, will help empower businesses of mechanical and metal sectors.

Home, during a visit to Tomelloso employment workshop on home help, recalled that the development of the seven centers of excellence in our region have a funding of 2.5 million euros and help to encourage innovation in our region in each of these sectors.

Future Center of Excellence, according to the minister, is based on the Youth Employment Plan and will be dedicated to the metal sector where the province Tomelloso Real City have a very important role. In this way, noted, new companies setting up in Tomelloso will be more competitive and make the business continue to give good news to the region.

In another vein, the Minister of Employment and the Economy has stated that the program Castilla-La Mancha region of entrepreneurship, has a budget of five million euros to promote entrepreneurship projects in our region.

In this regard, he announced that the government led by Maria Dolores Cospedal launched in Tomelloso – in collaboration with the city-one of the 48 courses of senior management for entrepreneurs, with the aim of contributing to economic recovery and employment in the province, Castilla-La Mancha.

Employment and Entrepreneurship workshops

During his visit to the workshop home help that is being developed in Tomelloso (Ciudad Real), the minister said that our goal is that the ten students who are conducting this training can carry out a business initiative.

In this regard, he said employment workshops and entrepreneurship that are developing throughout the region, 25 of them in the province of Ciudad Real by 3,115,000 euros investment made by the Government of Cospedal do not end in the formative period as a Upon completion of the classes, students will receive extensive tutoring they can use to turn your business venture into a thriving business capable of generating employment.

Home has insisted that the goal from day one we set in employment workshops and entrepreneurship is to be projects that trigger the development of the regions, generate wealth and therefore jobs in our region.

He highlighted that we have always prioritized the development of services that have a career in our towns and cities, such as the case in Tomelloso home help, for which we have contributed financially with funding of 112,246 euros.

Also pointed out that education is a priority to ensure that our young people can join the labor market to achieve success from self-employment as well as the investment of more than 352 million active employment policy, in order to ensure that our region can look forward to a more promising than it did in the past.

Finally Home stressed that Tomelloso is a city of entrepreneurs being able to make the best of herself to gradually continue creating jobs and accelerating recovery in our region.

Press Contact: Consejeria de Empleo y Economia Media Relations Consejeria de Empleo y Economia Address: Avda Ireland No 14 512-212-1139 http://www.castillalamancha.es/gobierno/empleoyeconomia