Geoscience students missing job opportunities

The petroleum industry has indicated that it will need to replace over 50 percent of its workforce in the next ten years. But few students indicate that the private sector is a career path in which they have interest. Academic advisors are more likely to promote careers in the environmental sector than those in the petroleum industry to their students while only 61 percent of all students would consider an environmental career path. This division is even more striking at the graduate level, where only 31 percent of students would consider entering the environmental industry.

The question becomes, where will industry find applicants to fill these positions? It is most likely that these positions will be filled using foreign-trained geoscientists and more non-geoscience technical workers to replace retirees and to handle the expected growth within the petroleum industry as energy demands increase.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/agi-gsm081706.php

The question becomes, where will industry find applicants to fill these
positions? It is most likely that these positions will be filled using
foreign-trained geoscientists and more non-geoscience technical workers
to replace retirees and to handle the expected growth within the
petroleum industry as energy demands increase.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/agi-gsm081706.php