Part 1 - Getting the Job Work in Progress
Table of Contents: Part 1: Getting the Job Part 2: Progressing in the Job Part 3: Are we there yet? - Advancements and Pivoting within the Industry Part 4: What's that Smell?... I smell Money. - Pivoting and changing Industries
So, you've decided to work for the Rockefeller or the Saudi royal family of companies? Good for you! But how exactly do you go about doing that with the least amount of capital and time commitment for an initial offer with the maximum starting salary and future fancy title with the corner office job?
Stay tuned as Part 1 of this guide will deal strictly with the hiring process on how you can get to this side of the fence.
Before @differentialequations12" and I unleash the entire Part 1 guide, be thinking about how these following factors affect your chances of making it in and having a stellar career (in no particular order):
- Good ole boys club
- Target Schools for Recruiting
- Program of choice (S&T, Geology, Chemistry, Petroleum Engineering, Management, Supply & Logistics, etc)
- Dating Companies via Recruiters, Online Posting, Placement Agencies - Some are better than others
- Contractor to Full-Time Step-Up
- Intern to Full-Time Offer
- Relative Strength of Alumni Networks
- Significance of Graduate Degrees (MS vs PhD, Ivy League vs Target School, etc)
- Total Compensation Calculation (Straight Base or Base + Bonus structure?)
- How and when Pay Bumps happen
- How and when Reduction in Forces Occur
- Benefits, Perks, and Others (401K, Pension Plan, PTO, Company Culture, etc)
These items determine your starting point in this game which makes the difference between a grumpy person on the "road" program waiting for that lump sum cash-out from their pension plan to getting a tap on the shoulder to be the Secretary of State for the next Administration.
Two crucial factors that determine your outcome in any game but especially in this field:
1. How you start 2. Who you know
Stay tuned!
We will release Part One soon. @differentialequations12" and I need to discuss high level plans on how detailed this guide should be and how soon we should release each part.
In addition to the current strategy to release this guide in parts, we will also release subsections of the parts in each section as we refine each part.
This allows us to do one of two things:
Bear with us, we are getting there and so far this thing is turning into an un-Godly thesis that is the practical version to the book Private Empire.