In October, the PESA-QLD joined with peer societies to host their annual Student & Early Career Meets Industry Night.
The longstanding event is a combined outreach effort to connect student and early career geoscientists to the broader technical community. The formula for these successful events is long tried and true: a networking bingo to break down barriers, stellar mineral prizes to encourage competition through engagement, and a dedicated space for students to ask industry professionals their burning questions.
PESA presence was strong and varied, demonstrating the breadth of careers available in Oil & Gas.
This is key in Brisbane, where the job market is dominated by the mining sector and there is no local Petroleum School to raise our industry’s profile. It falls on our outstanding technical professionals to highlight the diverse, rewarding, and challenging geoscience opportunities available in oil and gas, and encourage the investment in Honours/Masters level study that is benchmarked for entry to our industry.
Championing our industry grows increasingly important as Earth Science schools continue to decline across higher education in Australia.
While thanks go to our own Maddy Kowalski and Courtney Berry (PESA-QLD Student reps), and Rach Ciesiolka (PESA-QLD Secretary) for their work in organisation efforts -this event is only successful thanks to support from those who show up and share with the new and emerging talent.
Thanks to our members participation, we collectively represented almost the full “farm to fairway” spectrum of G&G experiences in our industry.
Feedback directly from students describe the night as “goated,” with Rach noting she had to bargain for the safe return of name badges from incredibly enthusiastic students at the end of the night (a key learning for next year: they’d like lanyards they can keep).
Well done!
