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The cream of the crop

The employment market for oil and energy traders has been from one extreme to the other in a short space of time – especially in oil. Andy Webb looks at where the recruitment market is headed next

The past five years have seen the oil trading business swing from one extreme to another and then back again. Prior to December 2001 it was in strong growth mode, with many US banks in particular ramping up their operations. Then came Enron.

Almost overnight, oil and other energy markets went into massive retrenchment. Trading operations were shut down or radically scaled back, with the

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