Get Selected By Employers Of The Companies That Are Dominating The Environmental Sector

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? Getting a job is not going to be easy even though 44% percent of employers are planning to hire new employees for their companies and another 14% of total employees are leaving the field for good.

To help you get the first job in environmental field with an easier transition, we have brought to you some tips that will be helpful in future.

From the research of Canada's 2010 Profile of Canadian Environmental Employment, most of the employer are going to hire graduates based on social networks and on relationships with the present employees. Among all the methods of recruiting, 44% of the employers prefer hiring new staffs through internal process and 65% of them hire using references. One question arises that, how to keep in touch with the employees in the environmental sector in a situation where the relationship is very important to get hired. 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.

Among the best methods of recruiting which can be found in the profile of Canadian Environmental Employment, internships and similar terms are getting popular. 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. You can make connections with professionals once you get experience in this field which is very important and then you can hope for a long term position in this sector.

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.

If you are a school going student and willing to get experience before your graduation, you are highly recommended to talk to your career center for getting involved in any co-operative program. 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.

So far you have been able to get a job only using a very attractive resume. Touch of green is needed in your resume to get hired in this sector.




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