Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Getting Employed In Environmental Associations.

By George Dodson


You are one of those students who have graduated recently and are willing to join in any company that is working on the sector related to environment. Now what is your plan? Approximately 44% employers are going to hire new employees in the next year and 14% of the current employees are willing to retire, but still fresh graduates are going to suffer in getting a new job.

To make an easier transition, we have grouped together few tips to get employed in the sector of environment.

Research done by Canada's 2010 Profile of Canadian Environmental Employment shows that, new graduates are going to be hired depending on the social network activities and the connections with the present workers. While hiring new employees 44% of the employers try to get them through internal relations and another 65% prefer using the method of references as they are they are considered the most effective way of recruitment. So it is pretty much clear that you must have good relation with people who are currently working on environmental sector, but in which way can you make a connection with them? By connecting with others through different type of networking you can make your face known in the environmental sector. Many conferences are taking place throughout the year and these are the places where professionals and non-professionals meet and it is the best way of connecting with them as well as learning new things related to the sector.

Manu associations working on environmental issues can give you an opportunity to get connected to the current professionals in the industry through forum or any other way. Post-secondary students are offered with a discount by some of the associations.

Canadian Environmental Employment has developed a profile which reflects the importance of internship and co-operative activities to get hired. You can participate in those programs to get better idea about the environmental field and to show your passion for working in this sector even without any long term commitment and in this way employer can decide how you are going to be as an employee. After getting some experience in this field, you can start connecting with professionals and this will increases the chances of you getting hired for long term.

Fresh graduates can easily make connections with the leading professionals in the field through the internship program provided by ECO Canada and can also earn around $12,000 in total annually. This program increases the chances of getting a job as an intern in environmental companies and make the companies think that they have to hire more graduates for betterment of their companies.

You are highly encouraged to search for co-op programs through your career center to acquire more knowledge about this field before you have your graduation certificate in your hand. A co-op programs allows you to attend your classes alternating time with your works but as an intern you are not able to do it.

Till now an attractive and well written resume has been enough for you to get hired by a company. As you are looking for a post in an environmental company you resume should reflect green.




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