What it says: Occidental is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, s-x, age, marital status, political preference, se-ual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
What it means: Because we have to say it, but don't really mean it.
What it says:
Desired Qualifications:
- Ability to work with multiple disciplines and cross functionally
- Prepare and maintain project timeline
- Evaluate, organize and prioritize workload
- Can make decisions with little information and is comfortable with change
What it means:
- Work with a lot of different people because there will be a lot of reorgs.
- Because your manager won't tell you what it is.
- Because there are two other teams you'll be "working with" (competeing against) to assert your position.
- Reorg, reorg, reorg, reorg. You may end up not doing what you got your degree in. We may lay you off when we make wrong decisions. But definitely won't do that if we can't find a way to fire you first. Better get a higher up to support you when we are shedding employees.
What it says:
Required Qualifications:
- Recent graduate
- Minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale
- Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work as part of a team
- Excellent verbal/ written communication and presentation skills
- Team player and able to interact with employees at all levels of the organization
- Desire to pursue career in Oil and Gas Industry
What it means:
- We need young, gullible workers that we can pay less than most employees and command more work from
- Being a team player: doormat to walk on
- Desire to pursue oil and gas even though we are really into carbon storage
What it says:
The Early Career program is designed to provide a significant breadth and depth of experience in a variety of oil and gas provinces within the first few years of employment, and a quick progression to maturity as a professional.
What it means:
- Btw we have a sh---y training program that will not prepare you for anything, but you better learn fast from the few experienced professionals left (on the job training)
- All your learnings will be in the Permian Basin for the first five years