Any good websites for Graduate Environmental/Ecology jobs?

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by Jay07

Thanks will have a look at them.

The reason for my lack of work is I keep being turned down to due to the lack of experience.

I am a very enthuisatic ecologist but unfortunately experience is more valuable.

This is intended to be helpful, so don't take it the wrong way, if you are going to work as an ecologist one of the things you produce lots of is reports. Both your posts to the list have spelling mistakes in them. I am sure I don't have a clean record on this, but even for this forum, which is a recreation to me, I will check spellings of words that seem a little tricky. Any application you fire off will be in a big pile, when I have had to sift through 30+ to find five, bad spelling gets a black mark. Every black mark puts you back.

[flookitz]

Hi

I got a job as a Junior Environmental Consultant and I found the job on Endsjobsearch.co.uk

Good luck

[Hedgeland]

Dont forget that for graduate type jobs, some organisations dont always advertise as they get many CVs (especially at the moment). Therefore save money on advertising.

Worth sending some speculative CVs in but even better to try and give them a call first for a more personal touch.


You dont lose anything but the cost of a stamp.

H

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Hedgeland

Dont forget that for graduate type jobs, some organisations dont always advertise as they get many CVs (especially at the moment). Therefore save money on advertising.

Worth sending some speculative CVs in but even better to try and give them a call first for a more personal touch.


You dont lose anything but the cost of a stamp.

H

thats good advice for the private sector but not for councils (or charities) - In my experience they mostly work with their own application forms and will not even read a CV - let alone a speculative one - certainly those sent to us wind up going straight in the bin.

and as to what this aproach loses you you lose the cost of postage - plus the stationary, envelope etc , plus your time which might be better spent improving your knowledge or skills

[Hedgeland]

Aye, sorry, should have specified private sector for that. I come from consultancy background and from experience, we get enough CVs to sift through without the need to advertise for graduate positions.

Check the HR pages of the larger companies you can find in ENDS directory. No experience of local authority so cant comment there.
H

[Johnny Redgate]

Would love to post a helpful comment but as I've just been made redundant after 11 years with an environmental consultancy I'm scratching my head too.

[Hedgeland]

Really sorry to here about your job loss. The recession has hit us all but this gives companies more choice as more people are chasing even fewer jobs.

I wish you good luck finding a new job
H

[Johnny Redgate]

Thanks H
my old job allowed me to work 3 days/week from home - perfect for living in the sticks. The sticks are not too good for finding a new job tho.
Johnny

[Nebson]

Hi there i am very new to this site. I am looking for good websites for Graduate Ecology jobs in Africa and or Middle East, please? I am qualified up masters level with 6 years experience.