This document discusses trends in recruiting and staffing professionals in the oil and gas industry. It argues that recruitment is moving away from traditional "job board" models where candidates passively wait to be found, and toward social networks and digital platforms that allow professionals to actively promote themselves. The document also advocates for staffing companies to shift their focus from internal processes to providing excellent personalized service experiences for candidates, using digital tools to gain insights into each professional. If staffing companies modernize their approach and prioritize candidate convenience through digitalization, the summary concludes, they will be able to better serve senior oil and gas professionals.
1. Mikko Marsio
SVP, Marketing and Business Development
Dovre Group plc
HowtoattractandSourceOil
&GasProfessionalsinthe
21stCentury
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Dovre Group
Global Reach – Local Presence – PersonalTouch
The most advanced provider of specialized project
management services in the energy sector
Dovre Group plc
• 1-9/2012 Net sales EUR
68.4 million, Y-on-Y
growth 27%
• Employees over 500
• Project Personnel offers
high quality project
professionals in Oil &
Gas and large projects
industries in general
• Consulting offers
management and project
management consulting
services for major
investment projects
• NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
(symbol: DOV1V)
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Referrals remained on the top 2011/2012
Social Media score – Lack of competence or current still early development stage?
CareerXroads, 2012, 2139 responses from staffing experts
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Employer and Employee driven - Both most effective and most liked
Referrals – Foundation in human behavior and traits
On average we can
know 150 people
Employer and Employee
driven model: Our social
capability to know
people
Limitation: Our own
capacity to know people
(and care about)
Original model
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Employer driven recruitment
Industrial age created methods of mass recruitment
Mining.com
Efficiency driven: Minimizing time,
costs, efforts and maximizing
coverage… once newspapers
started to advertise jobs
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Tradition of hundred year old newspaper job advertisementsis about to end
In U.S. Internet surpassed newspaper in 2010
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Are job boards ”old school” thinking?
Job boards updated old newspaper ads to internet age
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Global HR community believes job boards are critical
ResearchalsoindicatesthatHRcommunityisveryconservative
Source: Boston Consulting Group, World Federation of People Management Associations, 2012
Online survey 4288 executive level answers, 63 indepth interviews, 102 countries, numerous industries
Employee referral marketing
Company website
Job portals
Partnerships (e.g. universities)
Online advertising
Support programs for targeted groups
Social media pages
On-campus advertising
Friends and families
Headhunters
Job fairs
Company-sponsored events
Temporary workers
Work agencies
Newspaper advertising
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The state of job board industry, March 2012, Job board doctor
Job boards are afraid of Linkedin
48 %
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Candidate is still in passive role despite larger audience
Job boards are on employers’side like old newspaper
Industry job boards have x00,000 resumes
Same candidate in all databases
Database quality benchmark from CRM
91 % of CRM data is incomplete*
Old rule of thumb: Annually 25 % of
profiles get outdated
Candidate…
Applies to a particular job
(=newspaper model)
Leaves resume to be found – Huge
effort to keep all job boards up to date!
How many experienced professionals
really likes this old job hunting model?
*salesforce.com
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Old school treats Linkedin as a job board
Linkedin utilizes human behavior and traits
2 new members every
second
202 M members (1/13)
93 % recruiters use
Linkedin (2012)
Far too many seem to
understand it as a new
job board
Source: Linkedin
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Summary: Future of recruiting ”to really know me” driven
Onlyuncertaintyinrecessiontimeskeepthepoweronemployer’sside
PERSONAL
NETWORKS
(=REFERRALS)
Knowing people…
networking with people who
we like, work with and think
are useful to know
Promoting myself, self-
branding, networking
STAFFING
AGENCY
*
*Linkedin is current dominating operator, who will be next and when unknown
Business role?
Offered services…
personalized service?
Digital presence?
Other technology utilization?
Big data
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Two ways to look at staffing processes
Firstonetakestheinternalview,secondtakesexternalserviceexperienceview
STAFFING
PROCESSES
Relocation
Payroll
Insurances
Time management
Etc.
SERVICE PROCESSES
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Very few of us receive exceptional service
Costcuttingdrivencompaniessettheexpectationstousratherlow
Fewer than one in ten
consumers across all
markets believe
that companies generally
‘exceed their
expectations’ for
customer service
5700 responses* from U.S. and Europe – top priorities
Getting my issue resolved quickly (82 %)
Getting my issue resolved in a single transaction (56 %)
*2013 LivePerson Connecting with Customers report
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Digital services are integral part of our daily lives
Many of them provides access and easiness we earlier didn’t have
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Heavy industry is a global digital laggard
WorkinginOil&Gasdoesnotsupportideasofinvestingintodigitalopportunities
MIT Center for Digital Business & Capgemini Consulting, 2012
OIL & GAS
26 % MORE PROFITABLE
THAN INDUSTRY
COMPETITORS
CONSERVATIVESBEGINNERS
75 % of Internet
impact arises
from traditional
industries*
Heavily web tech.
utilizing SMBs
grow 2x as much
as others*
* McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011
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Global HR community is also a global laggard
Managingtalentisseenastoppriority–Lackofunderstandingcausinglogicerror
Online survey of 4288 executives from 120 countries, numerous industries, 2012
Boston Consulting Group, World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA)
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Millennials will be 50 % of global workforce in 2020
Oil&Gashasaseriousimageissueandformillennialsdigitalisnaturalpartoflife
4,364 graduates, across 75 Countries, 2011 October , PWC
75 % believe that access
to technology makes
them more effective at
work
46 % thought that their
managers did not always
understand the way they
use technology in their
work
41 % say they prefer to
communicate
electronically at work than
face to face or even over
the telephone
Millennial = Born 1980 - 2000
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Staffing will follow other industries development trends
Convenience,easiness,lesshassle–allindustriesgetsameexpectationsfromus
28,500 banking customers in 35 countries, gathered in March 2012
Ernst & Young Global Consumer Banking Survey 2012
Digitalization
is just the
enabler
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Bank services – One benchmark for digitalized service
Banksareabenchmarkforservicedigitalizationbutnotforservicemindset…
Numbers from U.S. banking sector which is way behind many other countries
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More you know about me – better service
Bankresearchresultsapplicabletoothersectorsaswell
28,500 banking customers in 35 countries, gathered in March 2012
Ernst & Young Global Consumer Banking Survey 2012
Big Data!
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Whatever number you look – Internet’s growth is huge
Mostcommonwaytousedigitalserviceswillbemobilegadgetwecarryalong
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Summary: Better service with digitalization
I am a senior professional – I
am entitled to receive
personalized service
Convenience & Easiness
focus – Not IT
Data – Merging internal data
with external data… analytics.
Love the data!
Benchmarks reside in other
industries