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cbrudder84 · Joined: 19 Oct 2013 Posts: 3

Greetings everyone! I was wondering if anyone has experience with direct hire through any Oil and Gas companies through the Gulf? When I was working in Saudi I was often sent to refineries to do intensive courses and I know that there were direct hire options, albeit difficult to obtain.

Obviously the salary for these direct hire positions is substantially higher and I prefer that environment to a chaotic English Institute.

Any advice would be really appreciated. I guess secondly, if anyone has a suggestion for a decent hiring organization in Oman I would appreciate that too. It is hard to discern that info from the enormous content on this forum. It also seems as though the entire industry is trending downwards.

Anywho, thanks again everyone!

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

If there are any such openings, you'd likely find them via an Internet search using: Oman oil gas English instructor job. It seems you'd need other skills specific to the industry.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

I don't recall ever seeing an ad here for Oman, so I agree google is probably your best bet.

If the Omani oil/gas companies hire teachers, it certainly hasn't been a topic here as it is in Saudi. In my years in Oman, I never met anyone who was teaching for them, but it may have been just different social circles. Cool

VS

balqis · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 373

I have no contacts to share. However I remember talking twice to Omanis working as taxi drivers in the weeks where they were not working out in the desert for Omani Petroleum.
I seemed to myself interested in the ESL pure desert jobs so I remember asking them. They told me they had ESL classes, yet since all staff working in the desert must be male, their teachers were also male, a reply that froze my interest.

Conclusion: there must be ESL jobs out there in the desert. Yet how to fathom more, I have no clue.
Advice: ask, seek, knock...

baqis

EFL Educator · Joined: 17 Jul 2013 Posts: 988 Location: Cape Town

I used to work for an oil company in Haima, OH MAN teaching English to their Bedouin Oil workers years ago...back then it was a wonderful job with lots of time off and great benefits! Unfortunately those days are gone.....as most oil companies that I know of don't need EFL teachers but technical trainers. Shocked

balqis · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 373

I can see that GlobNet were recruiting in November this year technical lecturers for Oman Oil and Gas. They might guide you as to ESL jobs in the same field, i.e. if there are any, and if there are, then who manages them. You could get in touch with Edmond from GlobNet, and perhaps you will tell you more.

balqis

Sleepwalker · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 454 Location: Reading the screen

I remember hearing about English teachers in a training compound run by Oxy but that was years ago. Might be worth sending them your CV.

currentaffairs · Joined: 22 Aug 2012 Posts: 828

A friend teaches ESL for an oil company in Oman but they are living year by year in fear of cutbacks and downsizing.

dragonpiwo · Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Posts: 1650 Location: Berlin

A friend of mine is on rotation there 28 on 14 off. The money's shyte, he travels in his own time and pays for his own air tickets. $3,000/month? They are having a laugh.
Nice country though.

ntropy · Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba

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balancedsentiments · Joined: 03 Jul 2012 Posts: 32

I worked in the training dept of one of these companies for many years, but as a contractor. They never did direct-hire, partly for Omanisation reasons. (Contractors don't show up in their figures.)