I know update the resume and hit LinkedIn. Any advise from others who have applied? I am a hands on IT engineer in the HPC (high performance computing) team. Linux, Python, Kubernets, monitoring, etc.
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people with technical skills at shell should only stay for 2-3 years
this is because shell underpays and under utilizes these skills
more importantly, shell promotion works by applying for open roles that are one job grade higher. but technology skills are basically thrown away if you apply to other jobs one grade higher. and so technical skill pool is essentially banned from applying to non technical roles
the net effect is that it’s impossible to get promoted as a technical here, and at the same time, non technical people can get mapped to the limited open roles that you can apply for
so then the business ends up using consultants because most of the supposed technicals su-k
it’s a joke system
since they are 10 cents on the dollar they just hire rooms of them and eventually it works like the monkeys with typewriters experiment and something kinda useful results
@k0
Shell just wants cheap.
@je Technical IT jobs are 100% for India because Shell thinks they are better than you. Better look for your IT carreer next door
Appreciate everyone's advice. LinkedIn and resume update will be done soon. I will start applying next week. Started studying cloud and system design to help with interviews. Also going over Amazon's architecture pillars to keep that as a reference.
One issue with Shell US IT is people dont move much. So technical positions hardly open up. So it's difficult to jump between jobs.
I would highly question the skills you are believing to have. If you spent more than 2 years at shell your are at best a turtle 🐢 and a dinosaur in any tech skill. No one will call you if So. So try to do something else very soon even as a volunteer to clean that resume and pretending to know some tech.
Sorry mate, shell is a place where people go to become useless and just get a paycheck.
This is the wrong place to ask. This forum is mostly trolls and old fogies who don’t know how the world or company work anymore but pretend they do. They’ll probably tell you to just look someone in the eye and ask for a job after going to college because that’s all that they did to get 40 years at Shell.
My advice is to list as many skills and projects as you can on as many pages as needed, and then to refine that into a one page main resume for use. You can revisit your full project and skill list as needed and tune a one page resume for job apps if something is important for it. If you’re still employed, purchase linkedin premium so that you can job search without alerting your current employer. It’s worth it for that alone.
Good luck
Bestie if you asking this question in this type of forum, let’s do some self reflection