How To Get Hired In The Environmental Firms.

By George Dodson


You have an intention of getting job in a sector related to environment and have graduated in a recent time. Then what are you going to do? Getting a job is not going to be easy even though 44% percent of employers are planning to hire new employees for their companies and another 14% of total employees are leaving the field for good.

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. While hiring new employees 44% of the employers try to get them through internal relations and another 65% prefer using the method of references as they are they are considered the most effective way of recruitment. Making relations with current employees in the environmental sector is very important and you can easily understand that, but how can you do that? By connecting with others through different type of networking you can make your face known in the environmental sector. You can meet professionals and get better knowledge from them by attending the conferences occurring in a large number each year in different places of the county.

Connecting with professionals is easier when you are involved with any association which works on environmental issues and provided you with a forum so that you can make your own network. Post-secondary students are offered with a discount by some of the associations.

Among the best methods of recruiting which can be found in the profile of Canadian Environmental Employment, internships and similar terms are getting popular. These programs offer you to get more knowledge in this field and help the employers to know your talent and how much active you are without any commitment for long term. After getting some experience in this field, you can start connecting with professionals and this will increases the chances of you getting hired for long term.

Through the internship programs offered by ECO Canada, fresh graduates can meet professionals in this field and can also get paid around $12,000 in a year. 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 are highly encouraged to search for co-op programs through your career center to acquire more knowledge about this field before you have your graduation certificate in your hand. In co-op programs you get the chances of continuing both work and school simultaneously, which is not similar to the internship program.

Till now an attractive and well written resume has been enough for you to get hired by a company. As you are looking for a post in an environmental company you resume should reflect green.




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