Geoscientists, Geologists, and Hydrologists

It really depends on your role but very broadly, you need both technical and domain skills. Technical skills include an understanding of how to work with relevant software to meet and exceed the expectations of your supervisors and domain skills include area of speciality (ie air, water, communit...

The interview is predominantly about fit so I would practice questions about your strengths and weaknesses. ExxonMobil's training is extensive so they will train you for the position they want you to fill and you don't need to know much about a specific job. However it is really important that yo...

The jobs are highly variable as you could be working in Operations which is on call 24/7 or in Exploration which is a 9-5 job. I traveled extensively and sometimes spent 8 weeks on the road at a time and lived out of a hotel room. The early years you rotate through a couple of positions until you...

A field geologist at McPhail is out in the field from 7am-3pm. Most jobs are soil borings, test pits, surveying, environmental remediation and occasional engineering over site (i.e. footing prep and related foundation work.)

Be prepare to talk in general about your results without naming proprietary information, money saving, record wells for production, drilling days and % in zone. Anything that you did that helped your team to take it to the next level.Do your Homework, get the facts about WPX, learn as much as you...

It use to be too many meetings and unfortunately due constant lay-offs and assets-sells a lot of interference from normal operations. It is a "result driven" company and things that elsewhere could be normal operational hiccups could result in "The One Thing" Make sure you document everything and...