Online resources

If you're serious about landing a job in the high-paying energy industry, I suggest you learn as much as you can about the industry. Following are some of the online resources I found helpful to learn about energy careers.

Discovering the oil & gas industry - for jobseekers transitioning from manufacturing jobs (on Ford's website)

Career Voyages - occupation videos

Career Voyages - occupations within multiple industries (shows transferable skills among various industries)

McMurray Training Center - online self-assessment/screening tool video

Process & Chemical Technology - videos (requires QuickTime plugin/download)

O-Net - Occupation Summary Reports (type "energy" in the Quick Search box)

Rockies Energy Workforce Collaborative

Get Into Energy - interactive

Renewable Technologies basics

e-Colorado.org - type "energy" in keyword search

Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Career Toolkit (under "Important Links")

Solar Energy International

Green Energy Career Guide

In addition to the "Schools" post on this blog, I also have a plethora of websites I've saved to my Delicious website. I've categorized these websites with various Tags, such as:
extraction-jobs
extraction-information
green-jobs
green-training

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