Congratulations! You’ve already taken some important steps towards a career in the natural gas industry.

1. You’re taking this program and getting the core safety tickets required to work in the industry
2. You understand the basics about natural gas—its properties, how it is recovered and processed as well as how the industry in British Columbia operates
3. You understand and support the importance of safety—being a safe worker, working safely at all times yourself and with others
4. You know what employment looks like in the industry and where to find information about employers

Take Stock

A good next step is to take stock of your interests and talents as they relate to a job.

Here are some questions to start asking yourself

• What type of activities do you like doing?
• What are you talented at?
• Do you want an inside job, at a desk, or a job where most of your time is spent outdoors?

Video 1: Careers in Oil & Gas: Opportunity is Knocking! (5 minutes, 52 seconds)

Resources to Help Take Stock

Have you started to get some ideas? Need more information?

Check out website 1 to find more information about the many careers in the natural gas industry. Website 2 provides information about careers in all different industries.

Then visit websites 3 and 4 to see tools that help you look at your own interests and find out about things like pay and benefits, working conditions, and more.

Website 1: PetroLMI – Careers in Oil and Gas: Career Options

Website 2: WorkBC – Career Toolkit
https://www.workbc.ca/Jobs-Careers/Career-Toolkit.aspx

Website 3: PetroLMI – Build Your Career
https://careersinoilandgas.com/careers

Website 4: On-Line Self-Assessment Tool through the University of Toronto
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/webapps/aacc-tools/SelfAssessment/online_inventory/

Learning Activity 2: Identify your Interests, Talents, and Work Environment Preferences

In this learning activity, you will use an online self-assessment tool to see what is important to you when it comes to a career; then work with a partner as peer career counselors to explore the results.

Instructions

1. Do the online self-assessment on Website 4 and print out your results
2. Then, working with a partner, use the Peer Career Counsellor Activity Questions below and take turns interviewing each other
3. When you are the interviewer take notes on your partner’s responses; prompt them to think about how their talents and interests might fit in to specific jobs
4. When you are being interviewed, use the information in your self-assessment to help you answer the questions; be creative.

Peer Career Counsellor Activity Questions

1. What do you enjoy doing best?
   Be honest and try to give a specific activity, hobby, or interest that you really enjoy
2. What do you DO best?
   There are likely lots of things you can do and like to do. Amongst them, what is the one that you like and do really well? For example, you may like and be good at baking, math, and organizing events; but organizing is something you have a passion for, and you are really good at it.
3. What do your friends and family think you are good at?
   Recognizing your own strengths and talents is not always easy. Friends and family members can help as they often see things that you may not realize. Do you have a grandparent, aunt or uncle, cousin or best friend? Tell them what you’re doing and ask them what they think are your key strengths or special talent. Past employers are also good sources of information; and they are usually more than happy to give you their opinion.
4. What jobs (paid, volunteer, unusual classes) have you had to date? What parts of those jobs did you like best?
   Create a list of all the things you liked to do from each job.
5. What are the skills and qualities required by your hobbies, interests, talents, and the jobs that you have had?
   Use Form 2 to create a list of your interests, talents and work environment references. Cross out any that don’t apply and add some of your own.
6. What are some of the careers and jobs that you have learned about in this program that you think would be well suited to your skills, talents, and education? For each career or job, would you require more training?
   Use Form 3 to create a list of jobs that are suited to you and identify areas where you would need to get training to pursue the career or job.