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TRANSITION YOUR OIL AND GAS CAREER INTO NEW ENERGY FIELDS

OUR COURSE FOR PIVOTING YOUR CAREER

How to Engineer Your Career Pivot

With the energy transition, decarbonization, and the growth from non-fossil fuels, the oil and gas industry is at a turning point that is driving rapid growth for energy professionals while lowering the demand for traditional oil and gas engineers and putting those jobs at risk. Our Engineer Career Pivot course will equip engineers in the oil and gas industry with the skills needed to transition to an emerging energy role.

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A proven framework for a career pivot with methods and tools for planning and executing.

Discover how to position yourself for a new career working outside the oil and gas industry.

Transition into a new role in the energy industries that are in high demand with your current experience.

Gain the skills to effectively communicate your experiences and qualifications.

LEARN HOW TO TAKE THE NEXT STEPS IN YOUR CAREER WITH ENGINEER CAREER PIVOT

The Why Behind Our Course

Why Pivot?

Why Pivot Your Oil and Gas Career?

The World Petroleum Congress estimates that globally 5 million new jobs are appearing in new energy fields, and at the same time, 14 million oil and gas jobs will be slowly eliminated from the industry. There are not enough qualified engineers to fill the new jobs, and paradoxically, those who are in the legacy roles are often viewed as unqualified to take on these new roles. With the lessons taught in the Engineer Career Pivot course, we have made pivots in our oil and gas careers and want to help other engineering professionals in the field do the same.

Course Outline

Our Course

This Engineer Career Pivot course follows the Strategy Cascade method developed by Roger Martin and optimized for use by individuals seeking to pivot their careers.

Overview of the method: the five steps to follow.
Goals and Aspirations: Establish your personal goals and aspirations that underpin your ambition and/or desire to pivot your career. Goals are structured around financial, health, relationships, spiritual, career, family, and other key dimensions. Test to see that your situation is meeting your goals and aspirations.
Industries and Opportunities: Identify promising industries and opportunities within those industries. Use the STEEPLE framework (social, technology, environment, economy, politics, legal, ethical) to build a point of view about how broad macro changes are driving shifts in the energy landscape. Gauge how well positioned your industry, company, and job are relative to these changes. Are you sensing a divergence between how you see the world unfolding and how your company sees the world.
Personal possibilities: Find your spikes (particular strengths or skills) and troughs (experience gaps). Test to see that you in the right role/division/company/industry in light of your spikes. Working from the opportunities, identify personal possibilities that match your spikes. Look out five years.
Identify your gaps: Consider a set of common gaps (storytelling, networking, financial acumen) and opportunity specific gaps (technical skills)
Build your pyramid: Identify the choices and actions that will move you to your dream job. Foundational changes that sharpen spikes and fill troughs.

Suzanna M (Chemical Engineer)

I thoroughly enjoyed it. This made me think about aspects of the industry I don’t normally pay close attention to.

Phil J, PE (Electrical Engineer)

It was really helpful that you included your personal examples. It gave me confidence in the process.

John B (Mechanical Engineer)

I like that it was based on a tried and true business methodology. The instructors were engaging and kept my interest throughout the entire course.

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new jobs are appearing in new energy fields

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oil and gas jobs will be slowly eliminated from the industry

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years engineering and management consulting experience

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Designed for Oil and Gas Engineering Professionals

Communicate Effectively

This course will equip experienced industry professionals with the skills needed to successfully communicate their value in terms that those recruiting for talent can understand.

Highly Structured Course

This course will equip experienced industry professionals with the skills needed to successfully communicate their value in terms that those recruiting for talent can understand.

Holistic Approach

You will learn a range of skills, including effectively communicating work experience, storytelling, and financial acumen. These are not generally required for day-to-day success in the oil and gas industry, but very important when switching career paths.

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Engineering Your Career Pivot

Philip Black, PE (Phil) is an experienced chemical engineer with over two decades of experience in the energy sector. His rich background covers traditional oil and gas, digital transformation, and most recently, the energy transition. Mr. Black has tackled diverse projects for global oil and gas, petrochemical, and power companies. With a background in automation within large EPC companies, his focus has been on extracting operational intelligence from control systems. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas. His specialty lies in identifying and harnessing the potential of emerging technologies to create a disruptive impact within organizations. He has a keen interest in human behavior, particularly in understanding how people adapt to the rapid technological advancements of our time. Based in Houston, Texas, Mr. Black has spoken publicly on digitalization and engineering in over 15 countries, and has published articles for industry publications. He also conducts training seminars. Personally, he constantly pushes his creative edge further by performing improv comedy regularly at theaters.

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Engineering Your Career Pivot

Geoffrey Cann is an international author, professional speaker and trainer to the global Oil and Gas industry. Following an early career with Imperial Oil, he joined Deloitte, where he carried out several hundred consulting assignments around the world, and eventually led a number of businesses, services and industry programs. Today, he specialises in digital innovation, produces a weekly article and podcast on digital issues in energy, and teaches an executive course on digital awareness. He published his first book, Bits, Bytes and Barrels: The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas, in January 2019. He is also a contributing author for Machine Learning and Data Science in the Oil and Gas Industry: Best Practices, Tools and Case Studies, released in March 2021. His latest book, Carbon, Capital, and the Cloud: A Playbook for Digital Oil and Gas, a study of the leading practices for digital in oil and gas, was released in March 2022, and is also being translated for international markets.Geoffrey releases a weekly article under the banner ‘Digital Oil and Gas’ on Substack, and publishes a weekly podcast called ‘Digital Innovations in Oil and Gas’, which is distributed to a number of services, including iTunes, Amazon, Google, YouTube and many others. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (with distinction) from McGill University, and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business.

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