Link’s Far East Expansion
British-owned, worldwide based manpower consultancy Link Oil and Gas Professionals has recently launched a regional Head Office in Beijing.
Link Oil and Gas Professionals held their launch party at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Beijing which was attended by the Right Hon Ian McCartney, UK Commissioner General Shanghai Expo 2010, the British Ambassador Sir William Ehrman and the Head of Trade & Investment Coordination, Mr Rahat Siddiqi alongside various representatives from the industry.
Link Oil and Gas Professionals has served the Oil and Gas sector for over 30 years, winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and International Trade in 2007.
The Right Honourable Ian McCartney congratulated Link;
“Link is a classic example of what our country needs to create in the globalised world we live in; people centred; investing in skills; professional and talented; responsive to market conditions; collaborative and engaging and mindful and respectful of the countries and their peoples in which they seek to operate...This event celebrating Link’s response to UK/China opportunities is important and I very much hope a successful signpost to future expansion”
Link Oil and Gas Professionals would like to thank Ian McCartney, William Ehrman and Salina Zhang, Jim Zhao and Jeremy Gordon of UK Trade and Investment for their advice and assistance on setting up our office in China. For over thirty years Link Oil and Gas Professionals has helped its clients find the people and skills they need to resource projects. We deliver experienced staff into high profile projects, production departments and facilities. We place oil and gas professionals across the globe, offering the top talent from local and expatriate workforces. Our industry – leading program, Total Link Care enables us to attract and retain the most highly skilled and sought after professionals in the business. Our unrivalled experience of the sector helps us to respond quickly to clients and candidates and to provide the highest levels of expertise across the industry and in local markets. Our aims are simple; to provide the brightest talent, to respond to the needs of our clients and candidates , and to support the career development of our oil and gas professionals, throughout their careers with Link. Our personnel are taken on by the Oil and Gas companies and assigned to Projects and Operations or stay with Link Oil and Gas Professionals for short and long term assignments. The majority of our work is contract staffing of major international oil and gas projects and this can see us employing and supporting Expatriate, Regional and Local staff into Engineering locations (eg Houston, USA), Fabrication locations (eg South Korea) and then the final Operating location (eg Russia) Our service is an integral part of the project as it involves manpower planning, selection, mobilization, relocation and ongoing adjustment and top up to ensure projects worth billions are delivered safely on time, cost and quality. We are able to quickly source quality candidates and understand our clients’ needs for contract or permanent staff. We focus on the quality of our talent pool and also retain professionals so that they contribute to the full life cycle of our clients’ projects. One of the key challenges facing the industry is an aging workforce; Link is working to attract skilled professionals from other industrial sectors to meet the demands of oil and gas operators. We work with our clients to encourage talented individuals to enter the sector and demonstrate that the industry provides attractive and rewarding careers. Contact us for more information on how an association with Link can make a difference.
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