1. Geoscience Workforce Update AGU Heads and Chairs Meeting Christopher Keane 13 December 2015

2. Reporting Status Terminal Master’s Skills Report complete
2015 Exit Survey Report near completion
2016 DGD/Enrollment Survey underway
2016 Status of the Geoscience Workforce Report underway

3. State of GeoWorkforce Today
ENTROPY

4. Student Dynamics, 2015 5% increase in B.S. level enrollments
2% increase in B.S. Degrees
5.6% increase in M.S. Degrees
9.2% decrease in Ph.D.s awarded
34% decrease in graduate enrollments

5. Internships by US Graduates, 2015

6. Quantitative Skills, 2015

7. RealEconomick
“John Watson, Chevron chief executive, said on CNBC television that ‘our number one priority’ was to pay the dividend.”
- Financial Times, 9 Dec 2015

8. Hiring Environments Energy Sector Engineering and Environmental
Some as part of salary downward adjustments
Engineering and Environmental
Reports from most regions is very robust
Driven by infrastructure rebuild

9. Non-hiring Environments
Government Research
Perhaps some regulatory hiring
Academia
Mining exploration and production
Engineering and Environmental
Some regions (US Southeast, etc) remain soft

10. Employability/Resilliance
Work experience/business perspective
Geo is squarely in the Professional Services Industry
Salesmanship
“Power-by-the-hour”
Strong quantitative skills
Problem solving employees (aka engineering tasks) are being lane-shifted
Environmental is quantitative

11. Revising long-term deficit prediction?
No.
Most is organic growth of the country.
Of projected growth of 72,000 geoscientists, 65,000 is from basic economic and workforce growth
Still expected >100,000 retirements
Horizon to reserve stress in O&G is 3 years
Infrastructure rebuild will continue
Exploration (Oil and Mining) look bleak
Slightly downstream positions like to be robust
Regulatory positions for government

12. Questions