Saturday, February 22, 2014

How To Achieve A Position In The Environmental Firms.

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. What are you planning to do next? Approximately 44% employers are going to hire new employees in the next year and 14% of the current employees are willing to retire, but still fresh graduates are going to suffer in getting a new job.

To get success you have to make the path easier, few tips are assembled here to help you get a job in the sector related to environment for the first time.

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. 44% of the employers are more likely to hire employees from internal connections and other 65% like to hire through references available, as these are the most popular and easier way of hiring. 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. You can use the opportunity of networking to get popular in the industry related to environment. 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.

Associations working in environmental field may offer you to get connected with individuals in this industry through their forum. You may get an offer with discount from associations if you are a post-secondary student.

Canadian Environmental Employment has developed a profile which reflects the importance of internship and co-operative activities to get hired. Through these programs you can learn a lot of unknown facts about the sector and it also helps you to appear before the employers as a good candidate with passion as there is no commitments of long relationships in those programs. 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.

ECO Canada also provides few programs related to environment and helps the fresh graduates to make connections with the professionals along with annual payment of around $12,000. 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.

You can look for co-op programs in your career center to get experience in this field before becoming a graduate. While interns are not allowed to attend classes in the working hours, a student who is involved in any co-op program can do both of the works and classes.

Your attractive resume has been enough for getting hired till now. You should make your resume reflect your passion for working in this green sector.




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