We've had a few of our guys go over to CHC Global, who seems to be doing all the hiring. If you are young and keen it is a great place for your career: good training with annual sim, fly new types, command as soon as you meet their company minimums - regardless of what the contract calls for or whether they need a captain or not. If you're tired of old fart captains that don't let you touch the controls, CHC makes them switch seats and duties, again, good for the young guys - the older ones may feel challenged in both respect and authority. You are expected to fly command or copilot from either seat. What a novel idea - I always wondered why both sides had identical controls and instrumentation.
The bad is that a lot of their work where the oil is. Expect to work in the kind of countries that that you wouldn't vacation in. It is a 6 week tour on location with six weeks off, so your lifestyle may seem a little schizo. For a lot of helicopter pilots only a six week tour and then equal time off is far better than they are used to.
Pay and benefits seem good. Lots of jobs so like everyone else they have to pay to keep. Not everyone that tries it stays, which means that you still have to like that kind of thing. Most offshore guys can only dream wistfully about the rest of us hanging out the left door looking at a hook.
Charon