The world’s leading online oil and gas jobs board, OilCareers.com, today announces the appointment of Karen Scott as the organisation’s Head of Marketing.
Karen has over 15 years’ experience gained during a highly successful career, working across a broad range of industries, with marketing roles at international organisations including Intercobra, International Paper, Mencap, Mitchell Kane Associates and Macphie of Glenbervie. A graduate from the University of Abertay, she speaks French and Spanish and is studying Italian.
She said: “My role is to take a leadership position and direct our marketing globally. Our offices are strategically located around the world but we remain a close-knit team – any given day I have contact with our global teams to ensure we stay ahead of the game.
“Today the energy industry is the most challenging, thought-provoking, headline-grabbing sector in the world, while being the most rewarding, exciting and diverse in equal measure. The opportunities available are enormous in both their scale and their number, and we believe we have an obligation to support the global oil, gas and renewable industries by putting those opportunities in front of the right candidates.”
Karen’s first weeks with the company – now based at its new UK headquarters at Arnhall Business Park, Westhill, Scotland – was a whirlwind world tour, covering 29,189 miles in just 23 days, visiting key energy hubs including Calgary, Houston, Perth and Dubai.
The company specialises in providing jobseekers with an easy and effective way of searching for a new career within the various international energy streams, but Karen said it was OilCareers.com’s international offering that provides the greatest strength.
She said: “Our team is multi-cultural, multi-lingual, located across different time zones and markets - we are very alive to the importance and the benefits of respecting local cultures, legislation, political issues and recruitment trends. We are well positioned to leverage our global scale with our offices in Dubai, Brisbane, Perth, Calgary and Houston.
“OilCareers.com provides an unparalleled service to both candidates and clients. Every month we feature up to 18,000 vacancies in all disciplines – from engineering, geosciences and health & safety, to marketing, IT and finance. We showcase opportunities in every region from Alberta to Aberdeen, Abu Dhabi to Australia, and everywhere in between.
“I am very creative and my aim is to outsmart our competitors - candidates and customers alike can expect to see a lot of exciting technological and marketing innovations emerge from OilCareers.com.”
The specialist recruitment portal receives more than 1.3m visits from users in 193 countries every month, offering over 650,000 searchable CVs and more than 18,000 vacancies. In excess of 20,000 new candidates register with the site each month, while visits from users in key growth markets including Canada and Australia have increased by 67 percent and 74 percent respectively, year-on-year.
Each year, OilCareers.com invests more than £1m in marketing to attract the widest possible talent pool of oil and gas candidates globally, and managing director, Mark Guest, believes the strategic appointment would ensure OilCareers.com continues to do so.
He said: “Karen brings a wealth of marketing talent and experience to OilCareers, gained from a broad range of senior roles with international organisations.
"Her appointment reflects our commitment to finding new and innovative ways to communicate with our customers and the global talent pool, ensuring we continue to attract those with the most sought-after skills to the most in-demand positions.
"Karen's passion and energy matches OilCareers.com's own drive to remain the world's number one jobs board for our international client and candidate base."
