Aberdeen Jobs News – Oilfield specialist firm, ITS gets £34.5m boost from US firm

ITS Group of Aberdeen yesterday announced a £34.5million investment in the company from a US private equity firm to help expansion at home and abroad.

As reported in The press & Journal, the specialist provider of oilfield equipment and services to the global oil and gas industry said that Lime Rock Partners has taken a minority stake in the business.

ITS is aiming to become a major global player in the oilfield drilling sector and already has 25 facilities worldwide and provides jobs for nearly 1,100 employees in Aberdeen and across their world-wide operations.

Executive chairman and founder Bob Kidd was quoted as saying, “This is an exciting time for the group, with unprecedented levels of opportunity in a challenging environment.

“The investment strengthens our balance sheet, allowing us to continue investing organically and also to pursue the acquisition opportunities that are prevalent in the current market.

“Lime Rock Partners has an impressive track record supporting growing companies in the sector.”

The news is another sign of improving confidence in the oil and gas sector in Aberdeen and, along with other recent indicators is encouraging with regarding to the prospects for more new jobs in Aberdeen and oil and gas jobs in general.

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SEARCH.CO.UK NOW INCLUDES ALL SCOTTISH LOCAL AUTHORITY JOBS via ‘MYJOBSCOTLAND’

Search.co.uk Ltd has announced it has confirmed a partnership with COSLA’s Myjobscotland.gov.uk local government recruitment portal site, to carry all local authority jobs across Scotland.

The new partnership will see all Scottish local government jobs displayed on www.Search.co.uk and the recently acquired www.hijobs.co.uk, which specialises in jobs in Inverness, Aberdeen and the highlands of Scotland, from the week commencing 14th September 2009.

With around 800 Scottish local authority jobs, this will bring the total number of vacancies typically on Search.co.uk to well over 4,000 and, almost 2,000 Scottish job vacancies on Hijobs.co.uk.

This new partnership comes shortly after Search.co.uk’s recent acquisition of leading Scottish job site, Hijobs.co.uk and a partnership with Scotland’s largest* commercial radio station, Real Radio, to launch ‘Real Job Search’ at www.realradio.co.uk/jobs’. All Scottish local authority jobs will now be displayed across all these sites as part of this new deal.

Peter Gillespie, MD of Search.co.uk said, “I am obviously delighted to confirm the new deal with COSLA and www.myjobscotland.gov.uk, to bring the widest possible range of jobs to our jobseekers across Search.co.uk, Hijobs.co.uk, and ‘Realradio.co.uk/jobs’.

The Myjobscotland.gov.uk site is a great initiative from COSLA and our partnership now means we can bring our users all local government jobs from Orkney Council and Shetland Islands Council in the north, to Dumfries & Galloway and Borders Council in the south alongside our other commercial client employer vacancies.”

After only 8 months or so since our launch we now carry over 4,000 vacancies from leading commercial employers and Scotland’s local authorities. Combined with our ongoing development and acquisition strategy, it’s another exciting milestone and provides a great basis for ongoing future growth.”

(*- Source, RAJAR Q2 2009).

Issued by Search.co.uk Ltd. Please call Peter Gillespie on 0141-227-7888, or email peter.gillespie@search.co.uk.

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Jobs in Aberdeen – Are Future Prospects on the Up

Looking for a job in Aberdeen or the Aberdeenshire area – Are the future prospects now on the up?

Aberdeen, ‘the granite city’ offers extensive job and career opportunities across a diverse range of industries and services. The oil and gas capital of Scotland and the country’s third largest city, Aberdeen is also a major administrative centre with job opportunities in oil & gas and related industries; education, sea port and ferry trades etc.

Although Aberdeen has suffered in the recent recession along with the rest of the UK, it’s dependence on the oil and gas sector has protected it from the worst effects of the downturn. Now, local business leaders are predicting a brighter future with a return to greater levels of confidence in employers and businesses in the Aberdeen area in terms of future recruitment and employment prospects, ahead of the rest of Scotland.

The Sunday Herald newspaper, on 6th September 2009, quoted Tom Smith, who heads Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future (ACSEF) as saying, Aberdeen has “turned the corner” and continued, “I think the picture now is very upbeat, which is not something I would have been able to say even a few months ago. A variety of indicators, from house prices and various general business confidence measures, show that Aberdeen has turned the corner, and things are starting to move forward again”. This can only bode well for prospects for jobs in Aberdeen and the surrounding area.

The wider Aberdeenshire area contains a large number of companies supplying into the oil and gas sector, alongside more traditional agricultural, tourism and food production industries. So, if your looking for jobs in oil and gas, jobs in tourism and leisure or jobs in food production or agriculture, Aberdeenshire has a lot to offer – and not just the job opportunities, but the lifestyle also.

Whatever your job in Aberdeenshire, you’ll have access to a fantastic range of recreational facilities and services in Aberdeen and the surrounding areas or Deeside, Speyside and Morayshire.

Selecting ‘Jobs in Aberdeen’ on Search.co.uk/jobs, covers jobs in the city of Aberdeen and in the surrounding Aberdeenshire towns, including jobs in Peterhead, jobs in Fraserburgh, jobs in Inverurie, jobs in Ellon, jobs in Forres and jobs in Stonehaven.

Although the offshore jobs sector looks like it will continue to decline in future due to greater offshore automation, the smart money is on a return to greater job opportunities in Aberdeen and the surrounding Aberdeenshire area. So, to start looking for your new job in Aberdeen on Search.co.uk/jobs now, just click below!

Jobs.search.co.uk/Aberdeen/