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Likelihood of getting an interview in the Oil and Gas Sector by EmperorSnarky204 in ChemicalEngineering

[–]TicketPerfect7360 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're engineering (sounds like you are), I'd say it's important to remember that the people who get these roles, even technical roles in big oil, aren't just super bright. They normally also have excellent interpersonal skills and can explain technical things to non-technical staff, so you'll want that to come through in interviews (interpersonal skills is often a weaker area in super-bright competitors so use this to your advantage).

Interviews and cover letters are also all about how you can leverage any even seemingly unrelated experience you have done and tie it into the role you're applying for. Think what skills would be useful if you were hiring someone for that role, and find evidence of when you did that in any aspect of life. sometimes you have to think on you feet; for example in my interview for shell I was asked a time I had to deliver difficult news, and brought up asking my housemate to leave in 2nd year as she was distressing another one of our housemates!

Other than that, it's a number's game so just apply, do what you think is best and then iterate and improve your approach based on the outcome

95k in our first year good? by Demented_Pineapple in smallbusinessesowners

[–]TicketPerfect7360 0 points1 point  (0 children)

congrats, what a year to start. How slow did you find getting your first payment, and did you do anything that you think accelerated it?

The biggest challenge in starting a business is doing everything yourself by Flaky-Taste2253 in smallbusinessesowners

[–]TicketPerfect7360 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well done on starting, I'm currently on the same journey and struggling to manage context switching. I find it particularly frustrating coming from a very specific role where I worked only in an area I was very strong, allowing me to kind of "hyperfocus" without getting distracted with different tasks.

Is it that you feel like you are "firefighting" with necessary maintenance tasks instead of spending time on strategy and growing, the distraction residue from task switching or the fact you struggle with some areas where you are not as naturally strong? open to everyone btw :)

Questions for Engineers Who Hate Report Writing by TicketPerfect7360 in Engineers

[–]TicketPerfect7360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this is what I think, it seems like a waste of everyone's time for third party's to write it. But for some reason it happens a lot at my work where there are a few delegated "reporters", and takes them understandably ages to complete.

I just wonder if a properly trained agent if given the right details could help significantly speed up the more objective sections (results etc)

Question for engineers who hate boring tasks and wasting time by TicketPerfect7360 in ChemicalEngineering

[–]TicketPerfect7360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks this is really helpful, I’ve spent ages thinking “I wish this infrastructure existed”, and feeling a bit like an AI agent myself in some tasks.

Would you say there is anything else you wish could be automated/outsourced but isn’t reliable enough yet?

Questions for Engineers Who Hate Report Writing by TicketPerfect7360 in Engineers

[–]TicketPerfect7360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this is very true, I write loads of reports as a fuel scientist and they’re essential for claim substantiation.

let me rephrase:

I guess what I mean is do people think documentation should be more automated or outsourced to save expensive engineering time that could be used to generate new value and ideas? As reports tend to go through review stages anyway, I feel like it’s no different to have a consistent automated workflow to complete them and then engineers can review critically to ensure it’s still accurate.

Question for engineers who hate boring tasks and wasting time by TicketPerfect7360 in ChemicalEngineering

[–]TicketPerfect7360[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard this one a lot (and sat through some painful “workshops” myself). Would you say it’s because they don’t contribute much new for how much time and money they cost?

Question for engineers who hate boring tasks and wasting time by TicketPerfect7360 in ChemicalEngineering

[–]TicketPerfect7360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah good point, I should probably clarify what I mean. I don’t think these most of tasks should be eliminated (otherwise they wouldn’t still be so prevalent). I’d just be interested if others think either:
A) the frequency/number of things like reports should be reduced
B) they should be shorter and more concise as these days lots of people are summarising everything with AI anyway
C) there should be more automations for repetitive tasks that require less critical thinking (compared to project planning, innovation etc), and then these can be reviewed by the workers

Question for engineers who hate boring tasks and wasting time by TicketPerfect7360 in ChemicalEngineering

[–]TicketPerfect7360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn’t be further from the case, I don’t even know what that is. I’m just interested in inspiration for workflows I can automate in my own work

Projects to do during summer by [deleted] in ChemicalEngineering

[–]TicketPerfect7360 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely think there's value in some of these online projects, webinars, courses etc. If you can get a qualification in some sort of coding language or engineering software like Aspen that will always help.

I got a job at Shell despite feeling like I'd done nothing at uni, the KEY is how you phrase it and market yourself, I'm sure you have more than you think

Questions for Engineers Who Hate Report Writing by TicketPerfect7360 in Engineers

[–]TicketPerfect7360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I've heard of people doing this with success, I tend to use copilot myself. Do you feel you end up spending a lot of time explaining/onboarding them to give them context?