TAKE A TRIP TO THE FALKLANDS.

The biggest opportunities rarely begin with job adverts. They begin with conversations, long before everyone else realises what’s happening.

Earlier this year Navitas Petroleum said it planned to open an Aberdeen office.

Since then there’s been no announced address, no company filing and no local recruitment campaign. The timetable appears to have slipped.

That doesn’t change the opportunity.

If anything, it makes relationship building even more important.

Don’t wait for the office.

Start building relationships now.

People also ask whether this reminds me of Aberdeen in the 1970s.

After more than fifty years in recruitment, I’d say there are remarkable similarities.

Back then, the Forties discovery proved the North Sea wasn’t just an idea. It was commercially viable.

Confidence followed. Investment followed. Contractors arrived from around the world. Supply chains were built almost from scratch because the opportunity arrived before the local capability existed.

Sea Lion feels similar.

Not because it’s the same scale. It isn’t.

The North Sea involved multiple operators and giant discoveries. Sea Lion is a single $2.1 billion development led by one determined independent.

But every major oil province starts somewhere.

One successful development often unlocks the next.