Chung L.W. Vault Career Guide to the Energy Industry

Vault Inc., 2005, 155 pages, ISBN-10: 1581313756With concerns about energy security and new advances in renewable energy resources, the energy industry is sure to be one of the most exciting and important career fields in the 21st century.The energy sector constitutes some 5% of the U.S. economy, generating revenues in excess of $1.5 trillion and employing more than one million people. We are all too well aware of how fundamental the energy sector is to the economy when a small change in world oil prices causes interest rates to
jump and the stock market to shudder. Energy companies face and address questions of crucial importance to the economy and to all of our individual lives; their actions affect our government foreign policy, the quality of our environment, our ability to travel and work, the cost of nearly everything we purchase, and the health of our families. During the boom years of the 1990s, exceptional growth and technological change in the energy sector showed it to be an unusually influential, even glamorous place to be. The energy world offers enormous opportunity for the business job seeker.Industry Overview
What is the Energy Sector?
Industry History
Technology FrontiersEnergy Concepts Overview
Fuel Sources
Converting Fuel to Electricity
The Grid
Energy Prices
Nuclear Power
Finding Oil
Volts, Watts, and Joules
The Electricity Market
Oil Refining
Renewable Energy
HedgingMajor Industry Issues
Oil Supplies
Electric Power Regulation
Climate Change
PollutionEnergy Industry Job Opportunities
Which Job Function?
What Type of Company?
StartupsEnergy Hiring Basics
Who Gets Hired?
Overcoming the Experience Paradox
Internships
Tangible vs. Intangible Work
Good Guys vs. Bad Guys
Chapter 6: The Interview
Interview Styles
Sample Interview Question #1: Valuing a Power Plant
Sample Interview Question #2: Strategizing About Climate Change
Sample Interview Question #3: Commercializing a New Product
Sample Interview Question #4: Oil Exploration Risk Analysis
Sample Interview Question #5: Pitching a StockEnergy Sector Culture
Traditional and Conservative?Breaking Down the Jobs
Asset Development
Corporate Finance
Quantitative Analysis and Risk Management
Trading and Energy Marketing
Investment Analysis
Consulting
Business Development
Banking
Strategy and Planning
Economic and Policy Analysis