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Added on April 22, 2011, 9:23 am

There are no best starting point due to limited job vacancies for fresh engineers.

You can start with "Mile wide, inch deep" or "Inch wide, mile deep" jobs.

I'm always a big believer in earning your experience. I started in one of the NOC straight from Uni and the pay was low (2K a month at the time) but I was eager I guess and was looking forward to learning all I need to learn. After 10 years, my salary was about 3 times my entry salary and opportunity was knocking at my door everywhere. Left the company for a place where my salary is 7 times my last salary .... just like that.

I believed that I got opportunity due to the experience that I gained from my previous employer. As long as you're willing to learn, not afraid to ask for projects, you'll be fine.

I used to be a very motivated students who studied extremely hard in order to step into oil and gas industry. After graduate, I manage to get my dream job in a big operator in my hometown. However, after nearly 2 years of working, I am so sad and unhappy with my own career development. Within these 2 years, I only get trained to use ONE software which is not applicable at outside. I don't get much chance to do other work related to my discipline's core subjects. I keep reflecting this to my boss but to no avail due to various reasons.  When I was typing my CV, I really feel so sad as I don't have much to talk about under my experience except learning/using ONE software. Anyone can advise me should I continue to stay in this company hoping one day I get the chance to learn more & gain more experience or are there other ways to go?