Comments on: Are we facing a green skills shortage? http://www.renewableenergyjobs.com/greenleader/green_jobs/are-we-facing-a-green-skills-shortage/ The issues that matter Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:47:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: James Bates http://www.renewableenergyjobs.com/greenleader/green_jobs/are-we-facing-a-green-skills-shortage/comment-page-1/#comment-162 James Bates Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:24:02 +0000 http://www.renewableenergyjobs.com/greenleader/?p=550#comment-162 Well that is the future we are looking. I myself feel as though my working life has just come to an abrupt stop. I have been trying to get a foot in the door in the ROV industry with as of yet no success and now with the big oil producers profits down things look worse. I have been involved in conservation since my teens but wnet on to explore other things. I have travelled a bit working where ever I went mainly fixing repairing most things that I came across. I am very mechanically minded but this does not count for much when it is not in the form of paper from university or college. I have been hearing of the state of new employees in the industry with the required background (paper qualifications) who when it come to the practical side of the job are worse than useless. I would love to be able to attend an interview or get a phone call/ e-mail and make arrangements for practical testing as opposed to just reading some text that turns out to be of no use. The world is short of good quality practically capable people who when it comes down to it can actually do the job, not just talk the job. So the skills gap is only going to get wider as the people who can do and care about doing it right and improving there skills get older and fewer and fewer. Good luck with your search; I would love to help but I am afraid I do not look good on paper and I will probably be busy the rest of my life fixing other peoples mistakes and not really getting paid or thanked for it. james.w.bates@gmail.com Well that is the future we are looking.
I myself feel as though my working life has just come to an abrupt stop. I have been trying to get a foot in the door in the ROV industry with as of yet no success and now with the big oil producers profits down things look worse. I have been involved in conservation since my teens but wnet on to explore other things. I have travelled a bit working where ever I went mainly fixing repairing most things that I came across. I am very mechanically minded but this does not count for much when it is not in the form of paper from university or college. I have been hearing of the state of new employees in the industry with the required background (paper qualifications) who when it come to the practical side of the job are worse than useless. I would love to be able to attend an interview or get a phone call/ e-mail and make arrangements for practical testing as opposed to just reading some text that turns out to be of no use.
The world is short of good quality practically capable people who when it comes down to it can actually do the job, not just talk the job.

So the skills gap is only going to get wider as the people who can do and care about doing it right and improving there skills get older and fewer and fewer.

Good luck with your search; I would love to help but I am afraid I do not look good on paper and I will probably be busy the rest of my life fixing other peoples mistakes and not really getting paid or thanked for it.
james.w.bates@gmail.com

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