Job Career in Iran Oil Industry (Strategies and Challenges)

In recent years, oil industry of Iran has started a planned development in different sectors such as human resources. This industry has adopted strategies such as downsizing, reorganization, etc to compete in global and domestic markets, so that it could overcome challenges and uncertainty. One of these ways is considering the career. Oil industry tries to increase the current efficiency of employees and at the same time prepare them to accept the changes by career management. Career plans will cause decrease in replacement and increase in efficiency in this industry. In this research, the definition and types of career in oil industry will be studied and its growth and promotion will be evaluated; also explaining the challenges of this industry regarding human resources, the factors affecting career will be tested, including 1- environmental condition, 2- management philosophy and 3- job analysis. The researcher found that creating expert committees and training human resources, attraction and keeping the competence human resource and increase in job satisfaction are the result of job development plans; so the researcher suggests applying a model that uses selection, replacement and leading the employees, observing their job performance, performance evaluation and decision making in development path and proper replacement of human resources in order to choose and hire the most competence person.