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Answers the question, "What can I do with an environmental degree?"
Great Jobs for Environmental Studies Majors helps you explore your career options within your field of study. From assessing your talents and skills to taking the necessary steps to land a job, every aspect of identifying and getting started in a career choice is covered. You learn to explore your options, target an ideal career, present a major as an asset to a job, perfect a job search, and follow through and get results.
What can I do with a degree in environmental studies?
The first step toward the rest of your life starts with that question, and the answer is right here. Get on the right path now for a satisfying and rewarding career in environmental studies by learning to match your skills and interests with exciting employment opportunities. Great Jobs for Environmental Studies Majors will help you:
Julie A. DeGalan worked as a college administrator and career counselor for more than twenty years. During that time, she codesigned and coauthored the first four books in the Great Jobs series with Stephen Lambert. She is currently employed as an engineering project leader for a company that provides electronic data for geographic information systems and location-based services.
Bryon D. Middlekauff is a professor of geography at Plymouth State College. He serves as a resource for statewide environmental issues, and he recently completed a guest lectureship at England's University of Wolverhampton in the environmental studies program.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Good start, but environmental studies probably won't morph into environmental engineering career...,
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This review is from: Great Jobs for Environmental Studies Majors (Great Jobs Series) (Paperback)
What's this about the first 3 reviews being advertisements for "EnvironmentalCrossing dot com." Oh well.
This book is two thirds job opportunities, and one third how to represent and present yourself for getting a job. That last third is fairly good advice for anyone, whether you are interested in an environmental career or not. The authors focus on five general environmental job tracks: - environmental education - environmental policy, planning, and management - environmental technology - environmental sciences - environmental engineering As I mentioned in the title of this review, throw out environmental engineering if you have an environmental studies degree. Environmental engineering, like civil engineering, is a demanding 4-5 year program of study. It ain't gonna happen. The environmental sciences and technology tracks might be useful, but then your degree should be focusing on environmental science, and not environmental studies. I sense a lot of students being interested in environmental education, but the book talks a lot about middle and high school positions. A teaching certification or degree is important here. I'd add environment-related communication careers (writing, public relations, journalism) here as well. That brings us to environmental policy, planning, and management. This twenty page section could have been greatly expanded, because I see a lot of opportunity here for environmental studies majors. There are career opportunities in both government and non-governmental organizations here, as well as a track for environmental studies majors to get a graduate degree in law, public administration, or even business administration. Best hint for applying for job? More and more employers are asking you to post your resume on-line. Don't be fancy. If it looks scrambled when the prospective employer opens it up, your chances are scrambled as well (p. 28). You might also want to take a look at The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Great Jobs for Environmental Studies Majors (Great Jobs Series) (Paperback)
This was a helpful book. It really details how to make a comprehensive resume. Also it educates on average salaries oft different kinds of jobs, and has other statistics. I've also found that http://www.EnvironmentalCrossing.com is a useful website for finding jobs. They only have jobs from employer websites, and they also have far more jobs than I have ever found on any other job search website.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book, very helpful,
This review is from: Great Jobs for Environmental Studies Majors (Great Jobs Series) (Paperback)
I was reading this book looking for jobs and it was good but what was really helpful was going to http://www.EnvironmentalCrossing.com. They have tons of jobs to look through, more than any job board I've previously looked at. EnvironmentalCrossing uses only jobs listed from employer websites so I have a better chance of getting a real job than most other places.
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