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The Environmental Careers project has developed a new website (www.environmentcareers.org.uk) to enable young people and career changers to learn about and search for the right environmental career in the UK. It features relevant, up-to-date, expert careers information and advice. This includes recent trends and future opportunities in the environment sector, main career areas, employer and career profiles, courses and qualifications, applications and interviews. As well as jobs the site covers Work Experience, Placements, Internships, Gap years, Volunteering and Social Enterprise.
Providing signposts for environmental jobs, placements, work experience, volunteering and courses.
For those wishing to become environmental professionals
Research on the links between sustainability and employability in the graduate job market in relation to higher education teaching and learning.
The rise and rise of the ethical graduate jobseeker
StudentForce was commissioned by the Higher Education Academy in 2006 to research the labour market evidence for sustainable careers advice. The research showed new ethical demands by both employers and students. There is both direct and indirect evidence that some employers consider the social/environmental ethics, values and experience of university students as part of their graduate recruitment. There is also some evidence that many students consider the social and environmental responsibility of the employer when making career choices. But this is only one of several selection criteria, the most important being financial. However peers, the media and university culture seem to be significant and growing influences on their selection. University careers staff have mentioned the recent growth in student demand for information and guidance on the social/environmental reputation and performance of employers.
Evidence has been gathered through three student focus groups, employer interviews at career fairs, a workshop for university career staff and most importantly three online questionnaires – for students, employers and university staff. There is also mounting secondary evidence from employer surveys, Sector Skills Councils, professional bodies as well as student surveys. An advisory group helped to identify the best approaches to the three stakeholder groups. The final report should be available in May on the HEA website.