We all realize that due to the cyclic nature of the oil and gas industry, job security has become a concept divorced from reality. As a candidate, it is vital to maintain and enhance our skill base, from all aspects; soft skills, technical, managerial, geographical experience and languages.

As an organisation, it is vital to respond quickly to opportunities. All too often, this means the ability to quickly recruit or identify internally the skilled expertise required. Whether you are a service company supplying information management solutions or an international oil company commencing production in a new environment, you need to recruit competent personnel with specific skills and expertise. This is a key Working Smart differentiator – we are the only recruitment company offering “skill-based competency” services.

Our unique system captures a vast array of candidate details, from current work expertise to aspirations and salary expectations to a detailed view of their skills and associated competencies in each. This provides us with a broad knowledge base of current and rare skills in this industry and the capability to search, rank and identify potential candidates to target for a job vacancy. Our online recruitment service provides this capability to our clients, enabling them to perform fast qualitative assessment and skill ranking of potential candidates for their direct marketing.

We do not underestimate the value of the candidate’s personal CV, and used in conjunction with our sophisticated screening technologies, we have greatly accelerated and streamlined the recruitment process for our clients.