Knowing Yourself

 

 

 

Help the user plan their career path, in terms of an environmental job, new enterprise, placement, work experience, gap year, volunteering or course.

The right environmental career path for you will give you the required competencies, skills, understanding and, most importantly, experience.

This portal website can lead you to a range of environmental career paths. They can be full-time or part-time, short-term or long-term, paid or unpaid.

 

Education and training courses.

Increasingly students include volunteering, work experience, placements and jobs with their university or college course. There are an increasing number of students on environmental courses.

Volunteering and Gap years.

Increasingly employers recognise the value of the experience and transferable skills gained during volunteering and gap years.

Work experience, internships and placements.

Increasingly short-term placements lead directly to longer-term jobs. Several placement and internship schemes offer accredited training.

Your own enterprise.

Increasingly the government is recognising the need for young graduates and others to become entrepreneurs, especially social entrepreneurs. There are increasing examples of social enterprises working and getting contracts and grants in the environment sector.

Jobs.

Increasingly there are more qualified applicants for environmental jobs. Employees are increasingly mobile – travelling to jobs and moving between jobs.

Knowing Yourself

Knowing Yourself
Picture your environmental career
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