Attracting a world-class workforce

Our continued success requires a talented workforce with the right skills across the globe to achieve our strategic objectives. We recruit experienced hires with critical skills to help us sustain a broad range of expertise. We also offer university internships across multiple disciplines and partner with nonprofit organizations and universities to create talent pipelines for early-career talent.

Our voluntary attrition rate in 2023 was 3.9%. We monitor our voluntary attrition rate on a weekly basis and seek to understand trends that may be driving attrition. This includes reviewing qualitative feedback from exit interviews and periodically analyzing the data through different demographics filters (e.g., gender and U.S. POC) for trends.

We strive to ensure equitable practices free from bias in every aspect of our recruitment process and conduct talent assessments to ensure we have the organizational capacity and capabilities to successfully execute our business plans. To ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of external talent sources, we leverage data analytics and other key business drivers to evaluate and optimize our experienced hire recruiting strategies.

• We use an innovative writing platform to help us remove any biased language and unconscious barriers to attracting top candidates from job postings. In 2023, job descriptions were updated to reflect transferable skills and industry-adjacent experiences in support of broadening our talent pipeline for field-based roles.
• We use an established internal business process for auditing each step of our sourcing, recruitment and selection processes to mitigate the potential for bias in our decisions.  
• In the U.S., we maintain a data analytics dashboard to provide insights into the diversity of external and university talent sources, from application to offer. This dashboard also helps us monitor acceptance rates and enables us to make data-driven decisions regarding our candidate attraction strategies and financial contributions to universities. 

U.S. internship program

Hiring people with fresh ideas into our company is vital to our future. We take enormous pride in our summer internship program, which offers compelling, hands-on experience. We provide interns with challenging assignments, knowledgeable mentors and engaging activities to help them grow their skills and network.

The relationship between the company and the universities we support is important. We invest in strengthening our future workforce by making financial contributions to 19 universities, including giving to programs that aid in expanding the pipeline of talent into our industry.

To attract top talent for full-time positions and summer internships, we recruit from numerous universities in the U.S. By attending conferences and recruiting at Hispanic-serving institutions like the University of Houston and HBCUs like Prairie View A&M University and Howard University, we are able to broaden the diversity of our talent sources. We also partner with diverse organizations such as the National Society of Black Engineers, the National Association of Black Geoscientists, the National Association of Black Accountants, and INROADS, a nonprofit organization committed to leadership and career development for underrepresented talent.