https://jobs.chevron.com/job/Houston-Reservoir-Engineer-Tight-Rock-Unconventional-Texa/370271100/
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The job posting is probably from the EOR unit in ETC. The unit manager and the so-called SMEs are frauds who don't have a clue about EOR. Stay away from that unit...
-3dsh. Your proposal might have some impact, but I think the problem starts earlier.... in k12. Once in college, with the correct background in hand, it is not that hard to encourage kids to go into technical fields...and the saleries that wait are good inducement already. Without strong math and science preparation before college, however, that option is largely closed. The long slow ramp to get up to speed can not be avoided by any but the exceptionally gifted.
How do you get more American students to take the math and science degree route in college, 2ykg? Maybe one solution to try is having the federal government cover half or all their college tuition cost. Requirements are easy: Graduate in 4 years of less with a high grade point average and that's it. One last requirement: You will have to work for an American company based inside the United States within your field of study for at least 5 years. Don't follow these basic requirements and your on the hook to repay the tuition cost to Uncle Sam.
Pretty sure we don't have a business need for this role. After all we just copy he independents
It's an ETC job.
It is true that the PhD is about learning more and more about less and less until you know absolutely everything about nothing. That said, that little bit of nothing may be the critical bit for success and in that case an "off the shelf" engineer does not fill the gap. That you thing such a highly skilled person must be from another country does not speak well for out education system. Very disappointing! ... but supported by what I see walking the halls of university engineering departments. My question is how do we change that dynamic and get more American students into engineering?
I suspect this person is already working in Chevron on an H1B, the posting is part of the legal process to get them a green card for permanent residency. One of the means tests for that is to show that there is no qualified American available to do the (very narrowly defined) job. So this isn't to hire anyone new, it's to retain someone already on staff who has made it through the various rounds of cuts but does not yet have their green card.
Isn't it enough already that our good neighborhoods in Houston are overrun by these third world types which many refuse to assimilate to our ways? Isn't it enough we have to smell their curried or wok stir-fried food every evening when the wind blows in the direction of our home? Christ!!!
100% an H1B Visa job. University Upstream recruiting has been going on since late August... I'm sure they found the perfect candidate for the job but is not a legal US citizen. Take external route of posting job externally, and come to find out... no qualified US citizen can meet the requirements. :( bummer guess we got to look internationally (H1B) for a candidate, and holy smokes they find the perfect candidate!!!! That's the explanation, that's how the system works.
I agree, rrx. Even Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder could see this one a mile away.
Clearly friends and family hire. The "friend" likely supplied the job credentials needed which just happen to match his or hers. Even a blind man could see through this one. I agree whoever came up with this and whoever signed off on it should be fired. Without a severance package of course.
The posting WAS intended for a specific person... one with a H1B visa from China or India. Cheap old Chevron trying to hire a foreigner at half the salary of a natural born American citizen and at the same time, checking the box with our leftist government to exceed the quota of employing as many non-white foreigners as possible.
Maybe the job is written for a specific person on the outside that the job owner wants to hire. Aka friends and family culture at work. I find it hard to believe with chevron's engineering depth that a cedible internal candidate can't be found.
Actually those are MDs
A business need for a PhD reservoir engineer hired externally??? This has to be a joke along with the person that defended the posting. This is a perfect example of the ignorance of Chevron. They are laying off reservoir engineers in one breath and hiring a doctorate level external candidate in another breath. Whoever posted the job should be fired along with the jacka$$ that approved the posting. The only PhD's that are worth a damn are the ones with stethoscopes around their necks.
And do you realize that most PhD's are actually useless in real application because they are so specific in one area that unless the job specifically relates to that one exact topic it doesn't give you any advantage?
Sure you don't. Cause CVX is doing so much drilling these days that no one has time to do anything else.
One of the job's required qualifications is having a PhD in Petroleum Engineering. There are other top flight requirements needed in the candidate. The job is posted because there's a business need and we have no adequate internal candidate available.