Hiring is restarted including campus recruiting. How can this be when we have not met our headcount reduction targets? If you are midcareer or late career watch out. Big push coming to get rid of you. Prepare for minimal raises. The beatings will continue until you see the writing on there wall and find a different job. Things aren’t improving because they want you to leave. HR did a study and found younger workers are more willing to accept WE3 than those over 35. Lightbulb moment for management. Use WE3 to get rid of targeted demographic and replace with younger new workers who don’t realize how far downhill the company has gone.
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@2zjc+1izj1Laa By now you should know we are all 1 year contractors at Exxon. There is zero job security.
Weirdest thing related to this is that we are having trouble hiring experienced folks to fill FTE spots in Product Solutions. We have a candidate lined up to fill a vacancy from someone leaving and they want to convert the role to a contractor position. It’s going to cost 2x with half that money going to the contracting company. Makes absolutely no sense. Fishy.
@2kly Are you new to TX? If not, then you shouldn’t be surprised.
Sure, TX is better to live in than CA, but that’s not saying much these days.
Watch LinkedIn carefully and notice all of the Business Center people visiting Campus and sites. They’re not here for sightseeing, they are job shadowing to move jobs back. All the id--ts showing them a great time while training them to take work back should be NSI immediately. No offense to the GBC folks, but what a cr---y way to treat working professionals in your home state of Texas!
They want fresh blood....muhahahaha!!!!
And EM started recruiting New Hires at Senior Executive level also.
Let’s just put ignorant people at every level and see how that works out.
Crazy 8 Ball could make better more consistent decisions.
@1uzv Plenty of ways around that, starting with the fact that your “know-how” consists largely of dated information.
See, since nothing new has happened in the industry for more than ten years, it’s a simple exercise to procure the relevant documentation/standards and hand them over to the new hires, since all you old-timers really do is look up the answer in the documentation/standards anyway.
We can take it even further: upon showing you the door (since you couldn’t find it yourself), they bring in a consultant to train the new hires on the applicable standards, certify them, then put them to work for 1/3 of what it cost to keep you on the payroll. They can look up the answer faster/cheaper than you can.
Don’t forget that a lot of processes are being automated.
So, you and your like-minded peers can continue to be as recalcitrant as you want, but the fact is that you’re not going to change the outcome, and neither EM nor Johnny Sniffles who’s fresh from college really needs you to train anyone or cares if you do; that’s why god invented consultants.
BTC has never stopped hiring with hundreds more coming, if that does not tell you the company’s direction nothing else will..
@lbf+1izj1Laa That's exactly what I am doing. I am not training anyone even though I say I do. When I'm gone, all my know-how goes with me.
@epe That “college kid” doesn’t care.
He knows that Exxon is going to throw him under the bus, and he’s taken the job with that in mind. He’s going to do the bare minimum, bank his paychecks, take courses to develop marketable skills, and in 2-3 years, he’s going to jump to another company to the tune of a 30% increase in base salary.
In other words:
That college kid is smarter than most of you EM lifers.
@OP This isn’t a complicated question.
Exxon has been conducting targeted hiring for specific roles at specific locations since at least the second half of 2021.
What Exxon isnt hiring are more self-identified white collar employees with 200 years of “experience” who slurp up sizable salaries to spend an hour a day on Zoom then spend the next seven complaining about it.
How can recruiters tell (with a straight face) a college kid that XOM is a great place to work at???
The only way to stop this recycle wheel is that old people start the following procedure: Do no train new people or make it like you are training people but don’t.
OP, within 5-10 years, about 50% of the work currently being done at EMHC will be done from BTC. Expect supervisors and managers sitting in BTC coordinating work being done at the Spring campus. A lot of the work we do here is work we make for ourselves.
Who did you think was going to replace all the expensive 10-20 year career employees that are being shown the door?
Exactly.
The ranking system is working perfectly as designed.
A machine to get rid of the old and replace them with the new, until the new of today become the old of tomorrow and disposed themselves.
Employees are a disposable commodity, like toilet paper that is acquired, swept down management's a$$ to clean up for their ex------t, and flushed down the toilet when it can't accommodate any more cr-p.