Careers
and training in conservation
• Get
a countryside job
:
Naturenet tells you how! ...straight from the horse's mouth.
• Naturenet's list
of UK countryside courses.
• So, you want
to be a volunteer?
Read Naturenet's advice.
• National Trust
Careership:
a unique scheme for gaining what amounts to an apprenticeship in conservation
and other outdoor work from the country's biggest private employer of such people.
• Countryside Jobs Service:
view online or receive weekly post or web updates of current job vacancies
in countryside and environmental conservation, education, interpretation and
recreation throughout the British Isles from only £1.40/week. The no.
1 place for jobs at present. Free advertising for employers. Strongly recommended.
If you think I'm just saying this because they sponsor us, I'm not. Consider
this - out of the last five paid staff recruited to my Countryside Section,
four came via this service - and I did too!
• IEEM
Careers advice. Advice and some good downloads from the Institute of
Ecology and Environmental Management, including the terrifying 'What
a Graduate Should Know'.
• British
Ecological Society. Careers in ecology and environmental management: very
comprehensive BES publication now online.
• Countryside Jobs Link:
a good list of links to job pages on the websites of UK national organisations,
local government, and organistations in the voluntary sector.
• Job
opportunities with the Wildlife Trusts: bang up to date (usually) adverts
for certain Wildlife Trust jobs throughout UK.
• RSPB has two websites you might like to try, one for paid
staff and one for volunteer
vacancies.
• National Trust jobs online:
Great site with lots of info. Lots of good countryside jobs here.
• Lantra pages about careers
in the environment: well worth reading. Lots of info about qualifications.
• Looking for a course? Use Hotcourses to
search and apply for courses in the UK.
• EnvironmentJob: environment
jobs website with many, many jobs across the UK environment sector, and voluntary
opportunities too.
• environmentjobs: completely
different to the above, see, but just as good.
• Jobs Unlimited: online jobs
of all sorts from The Guardian. Formerly this was the top place for countryside
jobs, but these days only a few get in there, as it's pretty darn expensive.
But these few are very good. So if you see a countryside job in the Guardian,
you'd better believe they're either desperate or loaded with money: good news
for you either way!
• Land-Force.com: UK land-based
jobs, might include some countryside ones.
• You could subscribe to the Environment
Post. There are many jobs advertised in it. They even provide an online
form to do so. Mind you, it costs.
• Acre Resources: recruitment
agency including ecology, waste management, CSR and sustainability and contaminated
land. We weren't quite sure what CSR was, either, until Naturenet reader Maggie
Wild explained that it is Corporate Social Responsibility. She says "It's
kinda what big companies proport to do in favour of the environment to ease
their corporate conscience aka corporate citizenship. Some do it better than
others, but it is a well paid environmental (ish) career."
• Earthworks: an on-line
database of career opportunities for ecology and environmental workers, not
so much countryside though.
• I-Resign: a great site
with entertaining advice about how, and when, to quit, with some examples of
remarkable quitters!
• Have a look at our extremely cynical and tongue-in-cheek Countryside
Worker Field Identification Guide
.
