Oil and Gas Companies Are Now Poaching Employees From Each Other

[TexasTowelie]

The global boom in energy production driven by new technologies like fracking is leading to a shortage of skilled workers. A new report by the human resources firm Mercer says two-thirds of oil and gas companies are now poaching employees from their competitors.

"The industry seems inclined when an individual is trained and developed by a competitor to, especially in the first five years of employment, go after that key talent, as opposed to training and developing their own," says Phillip Tanenbaum, a senior partner at Mercer.

He says, in some cases, the practice has become quite overt.

"An employer simply sends an email to key employees at a competitor with a job offer at a 50 percent salary increase, without a need for an interview," he says. "Not necessarily in the U.S. at this point, but I can see it coming."

More at http://kut.org/post/oil-and-gas-companies-are-now-poaching-employees-each-other .

[font color=green]The companies are following the example set by Governor Perry.[/font]

[FreakinDJ]

1. Texas wages have been depressed for decades

At least now they are going up

[Ilsa]

2. I can't blame the employees for cashing in.

Living in Texas is hard. Any chance they have to get ahead will also help the communities they are in.

[Paladin]

3. There's nothing new about this.

Back during the last energy boom in the early 80's, me and my co-workers were getting multiple calls every day from head-hunters, offering us better employment deals. We all remembered those calls a few years later, when---as it always does---the energy industry tanked and thousands of people found themselves without jobs.

[white cloud]

4. The oil industry has

always been boom and bust. Some year the bust was really bad.
Thanks to Cheney we now have a fine energy policy!!!!!!!!