re: Oil aand gas needs experience

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Working in the industry, the part that worries me is the lack of knowledge transfer and structured transition. The experience is walking out, and very little is done to retain the knowledge base, or transfer it to the younger guys.

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this

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this, not too many companies want to hire a new engineer , pay him 65-75K starting out, only to have him "train" under a seasoned vet. It sucks cause we need this knowledge to be passed down.

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bingo.

i see this in at my company too. there is a large age gap from top to bottom which means large experience gap as well.

we do hire a lot of engineering interns starting around their 3rd-4th year in school so when they graduate they can continue working on the projects they were already working on which seems to work really well. it somewhat eliminates or reduces that training period