Unskilled job that could pay $125,000 a year

Jim Brown, president of Halliburton's Western Hemisphere Division.

Jim Cramer interview Mr. Brown in CNBC

Mr. BROWN: This year alone we'll hire 11,000 people in North America.

CRAMER: If there's someone here with an engineering background watching at Texas A&M, MIT, should they be calling you, because I saw a big sign from--Baker Hughes is hiring.

Mr. BROWN: Oh, we're hiring all the time. We've partnered with universities across the country.

Mr. BROWN: We're hiring petro techs, engineering--and engineering skills from all disciplines.

Mr. BROWN: As well as the hard sciences, biology, chemistry, physics. We're hiring MBAs. We've got it all, a wide spectrum in terms of skill sets.

Mr. BROWN: But here's the important side. Eleven thousand people we're going to hire in North America this year. A lot of...

CRAMER: I love that. Actually, that may be one of the ho--you know, I keep track if anyone hires more than 10,000. I don't know if there's 10 companies in this country that hire more than 10,000 people this year.

Mr. BROWN: That's right. And if you look at the front line, right here in North Dakota, you could go to halliburton.com. You got a high school education, you can come to work for this organization. If you have, as Boone Pickens stated, if you have a willingness to work and an aptitude to learn with a high school education, within a year and a half, two years, you can become a front-line supervisor.

CRAMER: But hold on, don't I need a government handout to get this job?

Mr. BROWN: No. That job will pay 125, 130,000 a year. Now, that's...

CRAMER: But wait a second. You're talking about unskilled job that could conceivably pay $125,000 a year?

Mr. BROWN: Exactly.

CRAMER: For people out there who are--do not--who are underemployed, do not have a job? A hundred...

Mr. BROWN: Correct, 125, $130,000 a year. Again, if you have the work ethic