OILFIELD technical website Drillers.com has launched three oilfield-specific electronic documents which supplement the EU Europass standard introduced in 2005 to help people make their skills and qualifications easily understood across different countries.
The three new supplements cover oilfield discipline, expiring documentation and training certificate.
They are designed to tailor the Europass electronic CV to make it specific to oilfield disciplines.
The Europass standard consists of five primary electronic documents: the Europass CV; language passport; certificate supplement; diploma supplement, and Europass mobility. However, according to Drillers.com, to be useful for the oil industry, specific skills and experience must be recorded and searchable in meaningful ways.
“The EU has designed a very good electronic CV standard which isn’t obligatory for companies to use as yet. The EU will eventually mandate all companies operating within the EU to apply this standard”, said Steve Devereux, of Drillers.com.
“That’s the way the EU works to harmonise practices across the region.
“In this case, the Europass is actually a well designed and useful standard and we can use that as the basis for an oilfield-specific ePortfolio. Oilfield companies can start to get Europass-compliant systems in place now using the EU and Drillers.com standards.”
The oilfield discipline supplement gives further detailed information on the skills and experience of an oilfield professional. Drillers.com has designed this for easy updating and to allow a job specification to be matched to suitable candidates.
The expiring documentation supplement covers all documents with an expiry date and which are considered crucial information for a potential employer.
Devereux: “Many countries don’t issue a visa if your passport has less than six months left. Some countries require an in-date yellow fever (YF) certificate, and a new YF certificate isn’t valid until 25 days after the injection is given.
“So if an advertiser needs someone in a hurry to go to Uganda, they must have at least six months in their passport and they must already have a valid YF certificate which is at least 25 days old and not expired.
“By way of our new expiring documentation supplement, matching candidates can be identified via the database.”
The training certificate supplement allows users to list all their non-expiring certificates, such as college education, courses attended or online training completed, within the ePortfolio database.
While all the primary Europass documents can be accessed and completed on the Europass website or on Drillers.com, the latter allows various additions to the norm to further enhance the user’s ePortfolio profile and make it more accessible to recruitment agencies and prospective employers.
According to Drillers.com, site users can export just the EU Europass documents or the whole oilfield ePortfolio, which can then be imported into other databases complying with the standard. The user has ownership of the data and can move it around systems or back it up to their own PC.