Intrrnship Program

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM STARTING

SOCAR-KBR LLC announces summer internship program for all engineering disciplines covering
Structural,
Piping,
Mechanical,
Electrical,
Process and
Instrumentation.

SOCAR-KBR LLC provides you with exciting career and an opportunity to build your experience in engineering for the Oil & Gas industry.

If you are interested, please send your CVs to Interns@socar-kbr.az latest by end of May 2019.
Candidates who meet our selection criteria will be approached for joining our internship programme for not more than 6 to 8 weeks.

What to Do When you want to Quit Your Job

There is no doubt that many of us have experienced that feeling of weariness and dread on the Sunday night before the start of a working week. The thought of Monday can be enough to get some employees thinking about sprucing up their CV and launching into a new Construction and Engineering job search. We all hit a wall sometimes – a place where quitting seems like the only option. However, the question is, how can you tell if deciding to leave a job is the right thing to do? The next time you find yourself struggling to make the choice, consider some of these tips to help make the right call.

Step Back  

When deciding to quit a job, it’s worthwhile taking pause and removing all emotions from the picture. Asking some pragmatic questions will serve the ultimate decision well. What could be causing this situation? Is it as bad as it seems? Gain clarity on what isn’t sitting well and what steps can be taken to improve the circumstances. Perhaps the HR department or a manager can help iron out the issues? 

Take a Break

Working long periods without a break can lead to fatigue and illness. When was your last holiday? After all, your employment contract is designed with annual leave for a reason. Contractors and casual workers (or those who feel they cannot afford to get away) should still take some time to recharge their batteries. A little hiatus from work needn’t cost the earth and will offer clarity from a distance.

Decide if You Can Afford It

Life’s fiscal commitments coupled with the uncertainty around when the next salary will be can be a heavy consideration when deciding to leave a job. Can you afford a few months off? Should the answer be no, it may be best to focus on making changes within the role or situation to improve it. Whilst the state of the Construction & Engineering market means it’s likely you won’t be out of work for long, it’s best to be prepared. Alternatively, think about what your next position will look like and the actions necessary to achieve that goal. In the interim, make a budget, save and plan well before you jump.

Change the Situation (or Change Yours)

When determining what to do when you want to quit your job, it’s important to ascertain if every effort has been made to make the role as fulfilling as possible. Did you always feel this way about the job? What aspects have changed and when did this happen? Job satisfaction is underpinned by a number of essential factors, from engaging work, team culture, fair pay and job security, to autonomy and the company ethos, to name a few. Take the factors that matter the most and discuss them with management. There could be potential opportunities for you to explore outside your everyday responsibilities that meet your needs.

If, however, there is resistance to your requests and your boss isn’t likely to budge, then it could be time to start looking elsewhere.

Reconnect With Your Network

It’s easy to lose contact with personal and professional networks as we go about daily living. Interestingly, everyone is in the same boat! It doesn’t matter if you have lost touch with a colleague you had great respect for; it’s never too late to get in contact. By keeping in touch, you may also uncover new opportunities in the hidden job market. These connections could also provide insight into other organisations and industries, where the grass may truly be greener.

Summary

When that feeling of distress strikes on a Sunday night and you feel like you have had enough, take comfort in knowing that you are not alone. Rather than deciding to leave a job in haste and frustration, take a step back and figure out what you need to do before taking the next step. Once you have considered all your options and decided you’re ready for a fresh start, we are here to help steer your career in the right direction. For support finding Construction & Engineering jobs, get in touch with the team.

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5 Simple Yet Potent Ways To Effectively Show Achievements On Your CV

It is important that you show your achievements effectively – it is what recruiters look for in a CV. This is what brings out your capabilities and makes your real expertise visible. Why you are good at your job is displayed through your achievements.

Here a 5 tips on how to show your achievements effectively on your résumé- 

1) Define your Achievements

What are your achievements? 

Most job-seekers make the mistake of only focusing on their roles and responsibilities. But these cover only your area of knowledge and experience and do not point to why you are good at your job.

Anything that benefited the company, process or client is an achievement. For example - If you did some cost saving, or launched a new product or completed a project on time then it is an achievement.

It is surprising that so many job-seekers omit including achievements saying that they have no achievements. This is a fatal mistake. Never think that the work you did was not special enough to qualify as achievements. You don't need proof like a recommendation letter or a promotion to show something as an achievement.

2) Quantify your achievements 

Your achievements cannot be your opinion. They have to be factual and clearly show the benefit you have created for the company.

So it is not enough to say I reduced transportation costs by re-negotiating the contract with the vendor. You need to quantify it, e.g. reduced cost by 30% .Or saying I negotiated a deal for setting up a 25 acre warehousing unit is an achievement. Or I improved the component inventory monitoring system resulting in savings of over $90,000!

Also make sure your achievements that were rewarded by the company are explained. For example, 'Won the award for best salesman of the year', does not effectively show your achievement, but 'received award for achieving the highest sales of 1 crore INR in my territory' shows it. 

# Numbers, facts, figures are needed for expressing your achievements effectively

3) Choose your achievements carefully

What achievements to show is a very important factor. 

When you show achievements relating to your current job make sure it also reflects your level of seniority. For example, if you are a sales executive then saying that I achieved my target of 1 million USD and won a trip to Singapore is good.

But as a Vice President or CEO it may not sound like a great achievement because managerial roles require handling a team of executives or distributors, or resource handling, so the achievement has to reflect an achievement of a corporate goal rather than an individual goal. For example since I joined, I expanded operations to the Far East market resulting in an organizational growth of 40%.

4) Balance the visibility of your achievements on your resume

It is very important that your current job shows achievements, because recruiters are interested in what you are doing now rather than your past. 

What you achieved as a Trainee or as a junior executive is really not that important if you have packed in 10 years experience after that. 

# The current and two prior jobs must reflect achievements

5) Present your Achievements effectively

Your achievements must connect with the company to which they belong. So do not make a combined list. Put your achievements alongside the company to which it belongs.

Use simple, precise English. Use bullet points. 

And remember that achievements generally have to be in the past tense even if you mention that it is a continuing benefit. For example - Set up new offices in 4 countries in a record time of 6 months, is your achievement even though it may have spinoffs of benefits for the company on a continuous basis but it must be stated in the past tense.

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Safety Interview Questions and Answers

SAFETY INTERVIEW QUESTION & ANSWER

1. What is Safety ?

It is a condition which gives you freedom from hazard, risk, accident which may cause injury, damage and loss to material or property damage and even death.
OR
Safety is defined as freedom from those condition that can cause injury to persons including death or damage to property or environment.

2. What is accident ?
It is an unexpected or unplanned event which may or may not result in injury or damage or property loss or death.

3. What is injury ?
It is defined as a harmful condition sustained by the body as a result of an accident.

4. What is hazard ?
Inherent property of a substance or an occurrence which has potential to cause loss or damage property, person or environment.

5. What is risk ?
In probability of the realization of potential for loss or damage or injury.

6. What is incident?
It is an event which represents deviation from the intended sequence of designed steps.

7. What is safety policy?
Any company has a social and legal obligation to provide a safe and health working environment to all his improvement to all his employees.

8. What is safety audit?
The safety audit is the process that identifies un-safe conditions and unsafe acts the plant and recommended safety improvement.
Walk through It evaluates the unsafe condition notice able to naked eye during work through the plant. ( Stores, civil work, erection work)
Inter mediate-more details study and review of plant design and plant operation.
Comprehensive –It evaluates the safety factors in the plant on the base engineering, analysis, testing, measurement.

9. What is safety tag?
Safety tag can be defined a surface made of card board or paper board on which English local languages letters written for warning safety instructions to employees.

10. What is safety programme?
Safety programme can be defined as five methods by which accident can be prevent easily they are engineering, education, enforcement, enthusiasm and example safety programmes are plain spoken and carry out certain legal steps.

15 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND THEIR BEST POSSIBLE ANSWERS

15 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND THEIR BEST POSSIBLE ANSWERS

Q1) Why should we hire you?

A1) If you hire me, it will be a great platform to showcase my skills. Whatever goals I set, I ensure to complete them within stipulated time.

Q2) Reason behind leaving your last job?

A2) In order to enhance my skillset, I am looking for better opportunities.

Q3) Why have you been unemployed for such as long time?

A3) I enrolled myself for some advanced personality development course with some freelance work.

Q4) Tell me about your ability to work under pressure?

A4) I keep myself calm and focus on multi tasking while being patient.

Q5) Describe your management style?

A) I will be constantly keeping tab of assigned work with my subordinates and seniors, finishing the assigned job before deadlines.

Q6) Are you a team player?

A6) Yes. The team which I was a part of has successfully completed the projects within deadlines.

Q7) What irritates you about co-workers?

A7) I believe in team-work. Even if I find anything irritating, I try to avoid it unless it personally affects me.

Q8) How long would you expect to work for us if hired?

A8) As long as I feel challenged professionally.

Q9) Describe your dream job.

A9) Three words describe how you should answer this question:
relevance, relevance, relevance.

Q10) How do you see yourself 5 years from now?

A10) I see myself in a senior position managing important portfolio of this company.

Q11) Do you consider yourself successful?

A11) Yes, apart from appraisals I thing I have earned a bunch of good colleagues in my life.

Q12) What is your weakness?

A12) I concentrate on one thing at a time.

Q13) What is your strength?

A14) I am a quick learner and a great team player.

Q14) What position do you prefer on a team working on a project?

A14) It doesn't matter till I learn something new in every project.

Q15) Do you have any questions for us?

A15) When can I join?

3 Ways People Use CC in Emails for Office Politics

3 Ways People Use CC in Emails for Office Politics

Using “cc” (carbon copy) on email, a seemingly harmless tool has become a weapon of passive aggressive office warfare. Here are 3 ways “cc” is used politically in the world of work.

1. CC for “e-tattling”.

Probably the most common strategy is including someones boss or a whole bunch of “higher ups” in the company to an email chain. The tactical purpose of this move is to cover ones back and to snitch on someone by including other people to bear witness to the electronic trail that provides evidence of that individuals inadequacy. This is also referred to as “cowards copy”.

2. CC to force a response.

There is that person that constantly cc’s your boss (and the whole world) every time they make a request, demonstrating that they do not trust you to respond timeously or to make you look bad if you turn down the request. In addition, this tactic also serves to escalate a matter in an underhanded manner.

3. CC for shameless self-promoting.

Individuals who want to look smart and busy to senior managers go out of their way to cc people unnecessarily. This tactic is particularly effective when the emails are sent out late at night or early in the morning to show commitment and provide visibility for their “hard work”.

What has been your experience with this?