GE Oil & Gas Tackles the 'Great Crew Change'

'We'll Try Anything to Bridge the Gap'

Whether GE Oil & Gas will be successive in plugging the talent gap remains to be seen but Saunders appeared to be confident.

"Early indications are quite encouraging. Everything has a different incubation time. The academic engagement is a fairly long burn. We're continuing to run apprenticeship schemes and sponsor graduate schemes and bring that population in," he said.

"We're probably seeing the gap close quicker through our conversion program in terms of bringing in mid-career people and making them effective in our business ... We have people who hadn't seen too much subsea equipment 18 months ago and are now managing fairly significant work."

So, through several different approaches, GE Oil & Gas might just pull it off.

"With the kind of gaps we've got in the industry at the moment, any idea is a good idea. We'll try pretty much anything to bridge this talent gap!"

Rigzone Web Content Director Bertie Taylor will be moderating the GE Oil & Gas Young Engineer Panel at Offshore Europe in Aberdeen on Thursday, September 5 at 3:30 p.m.


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Giles Lewis  |  July 04, 2014
Hi Shelly- apologies for the delayed response. I researched and authored the Skills and Capability Challenges piece you linked to, and am currently involved in follow up engagements with the industry on this. Id be very happy to discuss if helpful. Please find me on Linkedin and reach out to me if that would be helpful.
Shelly  |  March 10, 2014
Some very interesting insight from GE here - however, as a recruiter, I will need to delve deeper into understanding the root of the problem before generating ideas on how to solve it. I came across this very interesting article that attempts to address the Skills and Capability Challenges Facing Upstream and Id be interested to get others thoughts on it. What do you think?
Hi Shelly, I think this is a wonderful piece of information that needs to be delved into. Please look for a future feature based on the provided data. Thank you, RZ editor


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