Global Environmental Careers. Justin Taberham

Global Environmental Careers

in committing yourself to a career that aims to make a difference in the world and the potential stress when you review whether you have achieved as much as you wanted.

Conclusion

A green career can be a life‐defining experience, and working in an environmental job can be hugely rewarding – often you can be directly improving your local environment to the benefit of current and future generations.

However, you need to have a reality check before deciding that a green career is your aim. Issues of intense competition for work experience, let alone for low paid jobs, and the challenge that in some roles you may feel that you are not making ‘enough’ change to the world may weigh on you.

1.12 Social Media and Online – Popular Resources

There are many ‘catch all’ and more focused sites and resources that cover more than one sector. In recent years, the growth of online content websites like YouTube and social media platforms including Facebook have enriched the information available to job seekers.

Developing websites is not cheap and content is relatively inflexible, whereas on social media platforms you can form groups and add content easily. Consequently, many areas that are under‐represented on websites are well covered on other social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube – issues such as local green work, events, global case studies, small projects and very focused topics. Another highlight is that you can more easily engage with other green professionals using social media.

There is also a significant growth of events, mentoring, interviewing, virtual networking and interaction using low‐cost videoconferencing platforms and social media. This helps to make communications more efficient and global.

There is a growing number of jobs websites and specialised recruitment agencies that focus on green careers.

Some of these resources are listed below, but please note that this is a very small selection of the content which may be helpful in your career development.