What is the best group to develop transferable skills in to enable a change in industries?
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Global projects. All our ppl are leaving for FB, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Learning how to execute a major capital project is very transferable.
Best idea:
- Get involved with a high-cost tech project with most of the work externally contracted. Even an 'off-the-shelf/customizable' provider.
- Get friendly with the 'Externals'. Mentor and consult with their junior staff. Make sure their managers are aware of your helpfulness throughout the planning/implementation/etc.
- Maybe a month into the 'warranty' period, as the project is winding down - offer your services to the external do-er on an ongoing basis. As their employee.
I've seen this work.
Can say no more at this time.
OP if you're non-technical coming from the business, your best bet is to try to become a Product Owner/Business Analyst for a solution in EMIT. That will let you leverage your business knowledge + learn the IT side of it.
If you're technical a lot of software development and analytics uses similar logic you're used to in your business software (eg conditional statements), it'll just be...more complex than that lol. I've seen a lot of people also enter solutions architect type roles at tech companies from O&G esp for the big cloud companies that are trying to move O&G to the cloud because they need the business knowledge.
All the managers have excellent transferable skills valued by the world….professional ko-k $uxkers
Janitor
You are EM, right?
There are really no fields outside O&G-specific that are transferrable outside EM.
Even in Accounting, most companies only keep 2 sets of books. Not 4 or 5.
In IT field, while it sounds promising, most companies won't pay for training to bring you up to speed.
Stay with what you know already. Posting here.
Some roles are easier to make the case and see the transfer but all jobs have skills which are transferable.
Supply chain is a very marketable skill for all companies
EMIT- software development, data/analytics, or cloud. No coincidence that those are the areas that have had the biggest attrition. Non-IT, maintenance engineering is always in demand as are corporate functions like finance, facilities, etc. As long as you’re not a Geologist or Petroleum Engineer it’s not super difficult to get out.