With all the layoffs, why is there hiring happening? I’m not even talking about hiring cheaper folks abroad, but right here. How do layoffs and hiring at the same time make even a lick of sense? Inquiring minds want to know.
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I’ll say this with Chevron since that’s where all my experience has been since I left the company, but we would do big layoffs in the field and within a few months springing in a whole new crop of trainees for the fields specialist position.
The layoffs were for a very short downturn in the market and then it would pick right back up usually within a couple of months and then we need people (a good example was 2020 for the Covid),but they also did it to get rid of the people they didn’t want and hire all new people to retrain.
It was a terrible system which caused a lot of headache and stress when the whole team was told that might be laid off and just not get rid of the poor performers. A lot of good people got let go or quit for no good reason due corporate America antics
@gy Agree with you (for the most part), but EM and similar companies do hire for specific skills from time to time. It’s usually for a niche technical skill and/or expertise in a legacy system that has a special application. It’s often cheaper for a company to hold its nose and pay what it takes to keep this type of person on staff than it would be to pay for their services by the hour.
I’d also say that people like this are very rare, very talented, and can more or less set their working conditions, so it probably isn’t anyone hanging around on this board.
I was interviewed for a project engineering position in Houston. They said there was an exp gap of 6-12 years.
No result yet, but it seems like the offer won't be sweeter than my place in my current major.
People keep assuming Exxon hires because it “needs” your individual brilliance. It doesn’t. It hires to move money, shift capital, check geopolitical boxes, and keep the dollar in motion. Sometimes that means hiring in America because this quarter’s political or economic commitments happen to land here. Meanwhile, another business unit gets told to “find efficiencies” to keep shareholders calm. Exxon isn’t one company. It’s a federation of companies and sub organizations under one logo, each with its own budget, targets, and metrics to make a powerpoint slide look good for someone named Kathy. One team hires, another trims, all in the same week. This is a half-trillion-dollar, oil-powered money-moving machine, not a family business.
And you need sound and say like a Asian Engineer working in Midland. “It’s amazing”. Lol
Get rid of the old geezers and rotate in a fresh crop so business does not get stale.
I can say that Carlsbad has plenty of openings in the field because it is a terrible place to live so it is hard for them to hire anyone.
Plenty of functions hiring for niche skills like AI, operational cyber security, etc. Things that aren’t developed well internally.
Out with the old and in with the new. It is the vicious cycle. New meat for the grinder. I love how the newbies look when they first start. Bright eyed and told they have unlimited potential. The truth is eventually revealed to them after a few years. The smart ones leave on their own and the d-mb ones get piped out. Exxon needs new players for thier hunger games. We the the old know the truth.
New hires are cheaper and not jaded, the goal is to replace the old and jaded employees. NSI and give them 3 months to leave.. it is just business.
I don’t teach the new employees well any more. Better to hold back and let them learn it by themselves…
No, the jobs are in America and India. AI. ROW doesn't exist in Exxon anymore.
Yes. Go to exxonmobil.com and look at job postings. Locations are in every region.