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It is John Sørensen’s hope that the offshore industry will grow a more attractive profle. are fully aware of the beneft of having many different at marginal felds, so there will be a growing need to nationalities attached to major projects,” explains John cooperate with various partners,” states John Sørensen Sørensen who is going for a broad range of employees who himself is working under somewhat other condi- mastering many different disciplines. tions. “At any time we must have a proper mixture of em- “We are still busy, but our horizon has moved a bit ployees. Staff members who have been with us for many closer. Of course we worry when the amount of jobs years and young, new employees. That will secure our dwindle, and we have seen our book of contracts getting own future and provide an economic balance in order lean and hungry, as recently there has been less to do, for the jobs not always to end up being handled by an but we are still employing new staff as we have trust in engineer of 35 years seniority.” John Sørensen has noted the future. It is a question of staying cool as otherwise that 2014 has seen the need for hunting only few new we would not be able to sleep at night.” faces. Ramboll Oil & Gas like most other companies has “Obviously there are periods when we sleep better speeded down a bit, but according to him the engineer- than others, and to be honest we only feel at ease 4-5 ing giant defnitely has an advantage when looking for minutes at a time. There is always too little or too much new staff members. work, but that is characteristic for our trade. We shall “During 2014 we have hired less people than before, remember to be happy when we bag a project as that is and I feel that there is not the usual competition among the best bait for attracting qualifed employees. For an companies for fnding qualifed applicants. We have engineer technical and professional challenges are like always been able to attract the best possible staff, as we sugar to a starving fy, and challenges are something we are probably privileged by our good brand. Of course, can always offer our staff. That is why we shall remem- the applicants do not always possess the qualifcations ber to tell the world what we are good at.” ■ we are looking for, so if necessary we spend some time teaching them the special lingo of the offshore industry, but it is always positive to add new people with new ideas to our organization.” WHEN THE NEXT WAVE STARTS ROLLING IN Based on a long life at Ramboll Oil & Gas, John Sørensen is confdent regarding recruitment for better days, as WE HAVE TO ADMIT, he knows from experience that offshore always goes up again after it has been down. THAT WE HAVE NOT “I have been in the business for almost 30 years, so I have seen the fuctuations. At the moment offshore is a BEEN GOOD ENOUGH bit hove-to as the price of oil is dropping, so obviously TELLING HOW some projects need to be re-considered. Shortly, things will turn more hectic as all predictions tell us that the INTERESTING THIS demand will soon start growing again. There will be new challenges, too, when more wind energy projects are INDUSTRY IS launched, and it will be of interest to take a closer look 40 / OFFSHORE MUST BE MORE SEXY