This course is designed to support you on your journey to finding a job in the conservation and environment sector. Whether you’re a student, a recent graduate, an early-career professional trying to find your footing, or a mid-career professional looking to change roles or transition across sectors but not sure how, this course meets you where you are.
You’ll learn the structure of this field’s job market, explore its main sectors, and get to know the characteristics of the most common roles to aspire to, from field-based positions to policy, research, and management. Through practical exercises, worksheets, and guided examples, you’ll learn what questions to ask yourself to define your goals, and how to build a career strategy that aligns your search with your objectives, whether that means landing your first role or pivoting into a new one.
Finally, we’ll cover what makes networking effective, how to build a solid professional network, and the common pitfalls facing those new, and not so new, to the game. The course is self-paced and kept down-to-earth, with no jargon or overly technical talk, just practical, useful content to help you understand your surroundings and feel more confident and less frustrated about the whole process.
