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04 Jul 21

The Great Employee…(Fill in the Blank Here)

Whether it is the Great Reshuffling, Great Resignation or the greatest time to be an employee, pundits across the job-o-sphere are clamoring to describe what is happening with the U.S. employment community. I’ve been in the staffing and recruitment industry since 2004 and have hired through the post Dot Com era, Great Recession, several Oil […]

30 Jun 21

Is ‘Work from Home’ a Company Perk?

Due to the chaos triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, employers scrambled to maintain continuity by enabling employees to work from home. In many cases, employers previously uninterested in the idea of a remote workforce realized the many benefits of establishing formal work from home policies. Some of those benefits include the reduced need for sprawling […]

April 14, 2020
John Syed
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23 oil producing countries have agreed to cut 9.7 mb/d from global oil markets. Production levels from October 2018 will be used as the baseline; global oil production during that time was near all time highs at 100 mb/d; but flat when compared to March 2020’s 100 mb/d. When you factor in the recent overproduction […]

06 Apr 20

Has the Oil Industry Hit Bottom?

Everyone whose livelihood depends on the oil industry is, has one question on their mind, have the oil markets hit bottom? The answer is yes, but first let me share why that narrative is important; then I will outline why I think we have hit bottom. Once oil company executive psychology shifts from we are […]

March 23, 2020
John Syed
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Today we are living in chaotic times. Millions of people are either worried about losing their jobs, getting sick or constantly bombarded with bad news everywhere they turn. How do you find optimism in times like this? The answer is history. The history of our existence is more chaotic than peaceful. Within that chaos, humanity […]

March 7, 2019
John Syed
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“Estimates Include 46.3 Billion Barrels of Oil, 281 Trillion Cubic feet of Natural Gas, and 20 Billion Barrels of Natural Gas Liquids in Texas and New Mexico’s Wolfcamp Shale and Bone Spring Formation.” (source) The Delaware Basin straddles the New Mexico and Texas border Northeast of El Paso, TX and South of Carlsbad, NM. It […]

February 23, 2019
John Syed
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2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang has an ominous message from the campaign trail about the ongoing seismic shift triggered by AI and automation. Jobs are evaporating, hope is fading and society as we know it is on the precipice of crumbling all together if we don’t act now. Maybe things aren’t as extreme as the message above, […]

March 23, 2015
John Syed
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OK all you super ‘old-school’ recruiters, I can’t top your stories of Rolodex’s and phone book recruiting, but for many recruiters today who rely on LinkedIn alone, here’s how it used to be. It’s been a little over a decade since I first started recruiting, but I can still remember when posting printed job bulletins […]

The Great Employee…(Fill in the Blank Here)

Is ‘Work from Home’ a Company Perk?

Global Oil Producers have Agreed on Production Cuts, What Now?

Has the Oil Industry Hit Bottom?

The Human Spirit is Undefeated: A Case for Optimism in Chaotic Times

Delaware Basin, Under the Next Great American Boom Town

Are Recruitment Jobs in Danger of Being Automated in the Near Future by AI?

How Recruitment has Changed in the Last 10-15 Years