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Monday, 4 February 2008

A career change to Energy Consultancy

Ahmad wrote:

Hello!

I am a Petroleum engineering graduate and I have been working in an oilfield service company (Halliburton) for last four years. My experience is quite thorough in the Upstream side of the business. Is my profile suitable to join as an Energy Consultant? I am seeking a career change at the moment.

Ahmad


A consultant in Marks Sattin's management consultancy team replied:

Ahmad,

As a result of the ever-present desire for top management consultancies to remain competitive within the energy sector, individuals working within many service companies and Super Majors are successfully making the transition into the industry. As a management consultant within the energy sector, you will be required to fully utilise your technical competencies, whilst at the same time further your business acumen on a largely international platform. Please feel free to send me an e-mail with your cv and a good time for me to call, and I will certainly be in touch to discuss potential opportunities.


Please forward your CV to jobdoctor@markssattin.co.uk and it will be passed to me.

Best regards

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi

I am a 41 year old Solicitor in Family Law. I have a 2:1 degree in Law and Postgraduate Diploma in legal practice.

Older qualifications include AAT/BTEC in Business and Finance. (22 years ago!)

I want to change career and Corporate Banking is of interest to me. Relationship Manager.

I realise I will need to send some speculative applications, I have the transferable skills but will need Finance Training.

What are the prospects of such a Career Change? How on earth do you send speculative applications avoiding HR to the large banks eg. RBS and Barclays. Their websites are geared up to online applications which I assume will go straight to HR.

Your advice would be very much appreciated.