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Location: Canada
Company: China National Petroleum Corp.
Experience: Mid-level
Highest Level of Education: PHD - Academic Program



Job Responsibilities
Project Plan: 1 month/year(at the beginning of one year or Jan. Feb.) Rearching Project: 8-10 months/year Project management:permanent Training Fellow Geologists: 2-4 weeks/year
Job Requirements
Quality of classese for a Geologist: must know petroleum Geology, sedimentology, seismic and logging interpretation,geological mapping,structural analysis, thin section examination and so on. must have skills on pc or unix,such as word,exel,powerpoint and winsurf. In order to grade to become a professor or the same level, he should pulish two or three theses (on AAPG, SPE or the same level) and one professional book. And also, he must hold a master or Ph.D. Degree, and pass the interview by a special group. Workload: must complete one to three projects a year. must have good english skills, especially on translation and reading. The professional knowledge of A Geologist must stands in front the national level or AAPG level.
Uppers
Surveying in the wild field. studying a special project with others and achieving the targets. find a play area and have high oil and gas yield later after drilling.
Downers
co-labouring with lazy staff. bureau corruption and bad management. Waste resources and man power. Unfair in promoting managers.
Lifestyle
The lifestyle is hard to say, sometime it is leisure, some time busy. The work time is 8 hours/day and 40 hours/week.But mostly you should work hard for about 44 hours or more per week, and no bonus for the extra hours. If you are lucky enough, you may have a chance or three chances to travel per year. At present, the company social events have become less than ever before.one or two times a year. You need not to care about about your dress, no dress code at all. Whay you have to do is to make good relationship with others, especially with managers.
Compensation
Base salary:$170/m. Bonuses: $120/m No stock. Health care. Life and health insurance. Child daycare benifit. $400/year travel benifit(if Work experience more than 7 years) Festival bonus($500/year).
Advice to Jobseekers
It is hard for a new graduate student to find such kind of job in China. If you have no relatives or friends work in the company,I think you should prepare $1200-6000 to bribe the manager of the human resource department or relative managers.

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