Shell let go of NTPs now........what a desparate move, management and team leads has failed this company at every front, couldn't manage their capital budget nor their human resources "Your most important asset".....NTPs are Shells expandables when shit hits the fan.........unless you have connections and your dad, In-laws,Big brother....is watching your back.
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When we divest FIVE onshore assets in 2 years and keep only 2 onshore assets, and keep hiring NTPs when our staff is already completely bloated, what do we expect. HRs fault!
Yeah!! Wish I would have known this before I divested the last 2.75 years here. Because now I am not marketable as a new grad and don't have enough experience for anything! I got royally screwed. Even with 1.0+ IPFs. Because if you average that out with my initial first year 0.9 (standard) (1.0 year- 2
1.1 year 3) I fell below the 1.03 3-year average. And that cutoff number I have heard has varied depending on team, need, etc. No MOR for JG5s. Plus my job was mapped in the new org chart! Not really sure how this all worked out. I never got any answers from anyone. At the end of the day all that matters is I am still unemployed. I think someone had a friend in high places and I just got the short straw. Wish I would have known how little I would be valued and ranked as a new technical professional. My performance didn't matter. It was all a numbers game and anyone that had been there long enough to receive an earned IPF but less than 3 years had zero shot of making the cut. Unless you have a friend/ family member in a high place or you are amazing and received the infamous 1.2s and 1.3 as a new hire. Lol. I wish I would have know all this prior to moving my family here so I could have made a more informed decision when I still had options and other offers right out of school. I was under the impression that I would be relatively safer as a new grad in a large company than a smaller one. And shell had a good reputation for development of new employees. Except that's not how this played out. Most of my fellow classmates that I graduated with have not been affected by this down cycle because their companies either protected the new hires or they didn't penalize them for their first year reviews (the 0.9 IPF shell gave me year one was standard and not based on performance and was ultimatly my demise) Now my family is pretty screwed. No job options for geoscience with less than 5 years experience. But companies are still hiring interns??? Hell, shell was still bringing in a new hire (former year intern) onto my team later this year!! Guess I didn't have the right friends and didn't play the social game right. I chose to go home to my wife and kids instead of team outings and drinking. In fairness I do believe it was somewhere above my managers head. I honestly believe he fought for me. But in the end, I wasn't a person; just a number on a spreadsheet. Now I'm stuck with 50k in student debt and the only job prospect I have is a car salesman, Taco Bell etc...... Wish it could have worked out better for me and my family.
With all this being said, I still enjoyed my time with shell. I worked with a very diverse group (70% all expats though!) and learned a lot. I worked with a great group that ALL contributed equally. The potential to grow as a professional and availability of continuing education opportunities was abundant for me. I have no ill feelings with regards to my team or immediate manager ( except the Graduate New Hire still coming on to essentially take my job is total BS) You should take care of your CURRENT employees that have performed well first. Instead of worrying about rescinding a job offer! Unfortunately this whole adventure has really put my family and I in an unfortunate position. What is the most disturbing part is the no rehire process. I had really good reviews. Great referrals from coworkers and managers. But again I am just a number on a spreadsheet. This could all be possibly tolerable if I was rehirable. Then I could just try and ride this cycle out for a while and then try and come back. No oil and gas for upstream in my area except shell or chevron( which is in a worse boat) which means IF ( if being the most important word of this statement) I can be lucky enough to actually get a job I will have to relocate my family and my school age kids again! I just moved here!!!
I am sorry this post is starting to sound quite pathetic. I promise I never intended for it start this way. I have been holding all this in for a while now and the job search is getting more desperate by the day. I am working my resume like a full time job and haven't got a single reply. Right management was a pretty pathetic waste of time. I don't want to vent this to my wife and make her worry anymore than she already is. So thank you guys for being my sounding post and letting me get this all off my chest. And if there is anyone out there that has an honest idea of a job opening I would really appreciate your feedback. Unfortunately I was only lucky enough to snag a few years experience in DW geology. All my thesis work (which has been published) is in unconventionals. I didn't have enough time on the job since getting out of school (and trying to support a family) to hold back enough savings to ride this downcycle out for an extended period of time. I also haven been in the business very long to make many contacts (a short sightedness of mine that I will not make in the future). I know that this is not the right place or right time to ask for help from anyone but desperation makes you do crazy things. I will work hard to make myself of value to anyone that will just give me an opportunity. Thank again for letting me rant.
On a plus note- if you are looking for a house in the Mandeville area then you will be happy to find all the foreclosures that will soon be hitting the market.
Shell! please stop doing your SRD (shell recruitment day) it give fause promises to people, instead just ask management or leads if they have anyone such as family,friends, or high up connection's kidds in mind to bring! Make it explicitly the company's culture.........Otherwise if you don't, they will have no intrest in the poor new hire's future and would treat him like no one cares......speaking about being socially responsible, start by being morally responsable toward NTPs instead of trapping them while they have other career choises........
Shell! please stop doing your SRD (shell recruitment day) it give fause promises to people, instead just ask management or leads if they have anyone such as family,friends, or high up connection's kidds in mind to bring! Make it explicitly the company's culture.........Otherwise if you don't, they will have no intrest in the poor new hire's future and would treat him like no one cares......speaking about being socially responsible, start by being morally responsable toward NTPs instead of trapping them while they have other career choises........
Will we be forced to keep one spoiled brat because "DADDY" is in management? We all know he wasn't hired for his work ethic!
New grads!.....stay away from this company, nothing is tranparent, no sense of direction and you are just a number! Go somewhere you can learn something, not just powerpoints and cheating.....
Especially bad how new grads were initially told they'd be safe, and that turned out to be a big fat lie.
I think it's new technical professionals? Engineers/geologists with less than 3 years experience straight from school.
NTPs = non technical personnels?