Attracting qualified talent always is a big concern.
In the drilling contracting industry, that view is a dangerous attitude to express - partially because it has been true for some time. Demographic trends and career goals of new workforce entrants have been conspiring to create a shortage of motivated, qualified contracting/construction workers for the past 20 years. The documented decline of the United States' educational system, the “baby bust” of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the perceived unattractiveness of construction as a career are leaving the industry with a new labor pool that is downright depressing.