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biffinbridge
Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:51 am Post subject: Marathon Oil |
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Marathon Oil,Equatorial Guinea....any info?I've got an interview. |
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lozwich
Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Never heard of them, but good luck and let us know how you go. I'm interested in those types of jobs in Equatorial Guinea myself. |
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biffinbridge
Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:31 pm Post subject: oh well |
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Had what I thought was a good interview,but didn't get the job.Very surprised.12 hour shifts,42 on 21 off,compound with pool etc.Gutted really....could have done the job in my sleep.Oh well........ |
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ntropy
Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Well, Biffinbridge, you at least proved they do more than just post these mythical EG jobs. Funny how we never hear about anyone ever hired there.
Come on, let us know what it's like. |
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basiltherat
Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 952
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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yes. Signs of life out there from EG.
On another point. Biffinbridge, you mentioned that you would have been able to do the job in your sleep.
I would guess that if (and I stress .. IF) you had made that obvious or gave any indication of that to the people at the interview, that that could have contributed to you not being accepted.
Since it would be a 12-hr working day (and my guess is, one wouldn't be actually training for that length of time. Perhaps 6 hours teaching and the rest preparing etc. Anyway, yud know more about that), I would guess that they would appreciate someone who was going to occupy those non-training hours fully committed to preparation and the like.
I have seen many examples of those teachers / trainers who could do the job with their eyes closed (and they really could, no kidding !) spending allotted preparation time getting into all kinds of skullduggery, backstabbing and generally getting miserable and bored which can affect overall functioning of the program.
I'm not, by any stretch of the imagination, referring to you as being such an individual but i do think recruiters have to be careful not only to recruit those who can perform the job (whether in their sleep or otherwise) but also to hire those who are going to be able to deal with the environment / circumstances that exists there and keep themselves busy.
Just my thoughts
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biffinbridge
Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: sleeping/teaching |
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I didn't mean it literally and I certainly didn't imply that in the interview-it's just that having done the Libya gig,this was heaven in comparison.
12 hours shifts 6 days a week.6 contact hours a day the rest of the time preparing,report writing and acting in a supervisory role.Using 'Headstart'.Salary starting at 200 quid a day gross.Nice flat, pool, club house etc.It sounded just like the Q.P. experience repeated but with students who wanted to be there and home more often.It is a good job.
I was keen as mustard!!Good luck to 'em.One of the men who interviewed me had been there 9 years and there are only 6 teachers..go figure. |
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kirez
Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Iraq
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: 9 years in Eq Guinea? |
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In what capacity had he been there 9 years? Oil-related? How can that be? Teaching English? Also doubtful.
I just sent in resume & docs applying to this job through WoodGroup, no response yet.
I can't fare well in a mosquito environment though --- the only aspect of the job that is potentially negative enough to turn me away. I'm attracted to traveling in the area, Gabon and Cameroon, and some water recon off the coast. (Because of an unusually high metabolism, and really dense muscularity, my body heat is higher, and mosquitoes are drawn to this ---- put me in a crowd of a hundred people and the mosquitoes all come to me. It sucks big time.)
Did you have a machine to do laundry in Libya? I'm sure it sounds a nutty question, but maybe you know it's relevant... |
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biffinbridge
Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: washing |
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In Brega there was a laundry service and it was the same in the desert.Smalls were hand washed though.No mozzies, so you'd be ok. |
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cummings
Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Away
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:13 pm Post subject: Wood Group |
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As I understand it, The Wood Group recruits for 4 different entities in Equatorial Guinea. The conditions and personnel involved are different for all of these entites. ExxonMobil has been in EG since the mid nineties so it is entirely feasible for someone to have worked there for over nine years. |
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Sheikh N Bake
Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: |
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Wood Group offers me an interview in London for EG. They say it's four weeks on, four off, $59,000 a years plus rotation tickets home and even food. I bet the weeks go by fast... |
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kirez
Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Iraq
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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Sheikh N Bake wrote: |
I bet the weeks go by fast... |
HA! I'd take you up on the bet, except I don't want to add to your suffering. |
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