Overview

• Occupational Outlook Handbook: Oil and Gas Workers
  The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics offers an overview of jobs in the extraction industry: what they do, work environment, job requirements pay and job outlook.
• Pittsburgh Business Times: Top 25 Marcellus Shale Drillers in Pennsylvania
  A slideshow from Feb 1, 2013. See also: Top 5: Marcellus Shale drillers in southwestern Pennsylvania.
• Power of Pittsburgh: Careers
  Find a career in Pittsburgh's energy industry. Look at current job openings in the energy sector.
• USA Today: Want a job? Look to the energy field
  September 30, 2012: "Of all the places that America's new jobs are, the emerging energy business, directly or indirectly, might be responsible for more of them than almost anything else...Six of the top eight most-filled new jobs in the industry are for some kind of engineer."

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Training

• CCAC: Marcellus Shale—Energy Training
  This is a key priority for the Community College of Allegheny County.
• PiOGA Oil & Gas Industry Career Center
  The Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association offers an overview of the career opportunities in Marcellus Shale and allows job seekers to post their resumes and browse their job opportunities.
• ShaleNET
  Marcellus ShaleNET is a recruitment, training, placement and retention program for high priority occupations in the natural gas drilling and production industry organized by community colleges.

Using Marcellus ShaleNET Tutorial


• ShaleTEC
  Shale Training & Education Center (ShaleTEC) is a collaboration between Pennsylvania College of Technology's Workforce Development and Continuing Education (WDCE) and Penn State Extension
• Westmoreland County Community College: Marcellus Shale
  Offers training for the Marcellus Shale industry as well as an Electric Utility Program and a Natural Gas and Oil Certificate Program.

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Job Sites

• Gregg Staffing
  This is one of the local staffing agencies involved with the Marcellus Research Group (an over-arching group that is coordinating staffing revolving around the Marcellus Shale).
• Hot Career Match: Marcellus Shale Jobs in Pittsburgh
  View the latest postings from a variety of companies
• Indeed.com: Marcellus Shale jobs Pittsburgh
  
• Oil Shale Gas
  Active job postings that update on a daily basis
• Marcellus Shale Coalition Job Portal
  The Marcellus Shale Coalition offers profiles of various jobs in the industry and their "Find a Job" will link you to the career sites of their member companies.
• Shale Directories
  A directory for Marcellus and Utica Shale jobs
• Tri-County Oil & Gas Business to Business Expo
  Expos are good places to network. This one is for Fayette, Greene and Washington counties and has a directory of companies and their contact information in various industrial categories.