Colleges Recruited At By Big Oil

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<p>University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. It’s one of the very best chemical engineering schools in the country, and out-of-state tuition is so cheap that it’s actually less expensive for a California resident to attend as an OOS student than UC-Berkeley or UCLA at in-state rates.</p>

<p>Ken Kruger, President of ExxonMobil Production Company which is responsible for all of that company’s global oil and gas production, is a UMN alum, as was former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond. Kruger is quoted on the UMN website about their hiring practices:</p>

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“A company as big and international as we are, we hire from a lot of places,” said Kruger, who spent five years as an alumni recruiter at his alma mater. “But we look at the [University of Minnesota] College of Science and Engineering as one of our premium recruiting schools.”

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<p>Translation: you don’t need to go to school in the oil patch to get a job with an oil and gas company, because when they’re recruiting they’re going to go for quality, not geography. </p>

<p>That’s echoed by UMN alum and Schlumberger employee Marissa Ebert who spent 3 years as a Schlumberger recruiter:</p>

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“I hired more people than anyone else in Schlumberger history—a lot of those people came from the College of Science and Engineering,” she said. “It was one of my best schools, especially for diversity.”</p>

<p>Schlumberger has deemed Minnesota one of a small number of “focus universities.” Ebert said the company recruits heavily from CSE because its graduates have signature traits: solid foundation in the technical subjects like geology and engineering plus a certain self-reliance and adaptability.

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<p><a href=“http://cse.umn.edu/admin/comm/features/2012_2_20_Invent_future_togeth.php[/url]”>http://cse.umn.edu/admin/comm/features/2012_2_20_Invent_future_togeth.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;