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An Environmental Studies minor with a degree in science or liberal arts degree
opens many career opportunities for graduates.
Your breadth of training and exposure to environmental science, policy,
and economics is a strong background for the type of interdisciplinary skills
required for many environmental jobs today. As you consider careers, we suggest
that you consider employment announcements and position descriptions that
provide descriptions of the types of work available well as the skills and
experience expected. This information can help you make decisions about classes,
internships, and summer/school year employment that will help you prepare for
your career. The following list is a restricted selection of the variety of sites
available.
INTERNET RESOURCES
Environment http://www.environmentalcareer.com/
National Environmental Employment Report features jobs by categories: biological
and ecological; forestry, GIS, and natural resources; environmental science and
engineering; environmental education and communication; policy, advocacy and
environmental activism; career changers; and environmental support jobs,
federal, state, and Non-governmental organizations.
E Jobs (http://www.ejobs.org) is a growing environmental jobs site. It links to
dozens of employers in the environmental sector, covering government, companies,
and non-profit organizations. Collections of job vacancies from professional
associations are also included, as are general online sources, newsgroups,
mailing lists, etc.
The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) is a national nonprofit organization
that offers services including job and internship placement, career planning,
and research. http://www.eco.org/
EnviroNetwork has a very comprehensive listing of environmental jobs at
http://www.environetwork.com/
The Green Business Network maintains GreenBiz a free job- and resume-posting service
(http://www.greenbiz.com/jobs) for
environmental professionals -- from recent grads to career changers -- seeking
work in the private sector, government, and/or nonprofit organizations. It
includes advice, tools and resources for understanding the market for green jobs
and careers. It also provides a toolkit and resources on green environmental
issues important to business.
CYBER-SIERRA'S Natural Resources Job Search is a great starting place
http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/natres.html
In addition to jobs separated by an orientation towards jobs in natural resource
management and jobs oriented towards environmental advocacy there are numerous
links to other environmental job list sites.
The National Council for Science and the Environment's
http://www.ncseonline.org/Jobs/
Environmental Career Page offers advice on career counseling, corporate research, job market
analysis, salary determination, job databases, e-mail headhunters, resume
preparation, resume posting, cover letters, interviewing, education, as well as
current environmental job openings.
American Society of Mining Reclamation (ASMR)
http://ces.ca.uky.edu/asmr/ has job listings and
assistantships as well as other information.
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STATE AND FEDERAL JOBS
There are several sources of announcements for jobs in South Carolina. Many of these
sources are state agencies, such as the Department of Health and Environmental
Control and the Department of Natural Resources. Other states also have job listing in similar agencies.
South Carolina State Jobs Site http://www.state.sc.us/jobs/index.html
Federal jobs (including some internships) can be found in a number of places on the
Internet. One such web site is http://www.fedworld.gov/jobs/jobsearch.html
More detailed job announcements are available at the U.S. Government's official web
site provided by the United States Office of Personnel Management at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov
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JOBS WITH NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
The Action Without Borders home page can connect you with the web
sites of 10,000 nonprofit organizations around the world, which offer a wide
variety of employment and internship opportunities, many in environmental areas.
If you like, you can search for job opportunities. http://www.nonprofitcareer.com
ACCESS,
the National Non-Profit Employment Clearinghouse, puts many of its
current job vacancies.
Of the environmental nonprofits, two that regularly post job and internship
openings on line are:
National Wildlife Federation
The Nature Conservancy
Volunteers offers good Internet links to environmental jobs.
Grassroots Network Internship & Career Service lists position openings with hundreds of
environmental groups.
The Peace Corps frequently offers a variety of
environmental positions.
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JOBS IN ACADEMIA
Science and Academia
Academic360.com is a great web site for anyone who wants to work in
academia, whether in administration, advising, instruction, or research.
Classified ads in Science magazine, also published on line, are a good source of
information about jobs in academia and other research organizations.
The Ecological Society of America posts
job opportunities in ecology as well as fellowships, scholarships, and other
student funding opportunities on its web site.
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LINKS TO JOB SITES MAINTAINED BY OTHER UNIVERSITIES
Several other universities maintain web sites with environmental and natural resources career information and job opportunities:
http://environment.harvard.edu:80/HERO/wrapper/pageid=lists/archives/envjobs-l/index.html
Harvard University
http://www.indiana.edu/~career/gcap/joblinks.html
Indiana University
http://www.snre.umich.edu/students/
University of Michigan
http://wfscnet.tamu.edu/jobs.htm
Texas A&M University
httpwww.wisc.edu/
University of Wisconsin-Madison – Institute for EnvironmentalStudies
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LISTSERVS
If you'd like to receive job information by e-mail, you may want to subscribe to
one or more environmental job listservers.
CESJOBS-L is an environmental jobs listserver created by the Center for Environmental
Studies at Williams College that regularly posts a wide variety of environmental
positions. (These include internships but not faculty positions.) To subscribe,
send a message to listproc@williams.edu,
leave the subject line blank, and in the body of the message type: subscribe CESJOBS-L
your name (example: subscribe CESJOBS-L Jane Smith).
Whether you subscribe or not, you can view the
listserver/discussion forum on ecological research and job announcements
maintained by the University of California-San Diego for members of the
Ecological Society of America (ESA) and other interested readers.
See the ESA web site for a http://esa.sdsc.edu/jobs.htm
monthly compilation of job announcements. To subscribe directly, send a message
to listserv@umdd.umd.edu, leave the
subject line blank, and in the body of the message type: sub ECOLOG-L your name
(example: sub ECOLOG-L John Doe).
The http://earthsystems.org/list/index.html
Office of Recycling and Environmental Information at the University of Virginia
maintains several environmental mailing lists and offers links to many others.
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NEWSLETTERS
There are also several environmental jobs newsletters that you may want to consider.
These include Environmental Opportunities, 103 Roxbury Street, #5, Keene, NH
03431; (603) 357-5940, ecosandy@cheshire.net
Environmental Career Opportunities,
P.O. Box 678, Standardsville, VA 22973; (800) 315-9777;
ecosubscriptions@mindspring.com
National Environmental Employment Report, Environmental Career Center, 100 Bridge Street,
Building C, Hampton, VA 23669; (757) 727-7895;
eccinfo@environmentalcareer.com
(A copy of this publication is located in the MEERM Graduate office,
702G Byrnes Bldg. for your review.)
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Last update: June 19, 2008
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