New Complete Guide to Environmental Careers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559631783 ISBN 13: 9781559631785

Publisher: Island Press, 1993

Synopsis

For students, recent college graduates, volunteers, career counselors, and anyone interested in working to protect the environment in the '90s, this is the most complete and reliable source of information available today.

Since the initial publication of The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers, the need for practical information on environmental career opportunities has grown tremendously. The New Complete Guide to Environmental Careers is an entirely revised and updated edition that provides readers with an invaluable overview of the entire spectrum of environmental career fields.

While retaining the personal narratives and breadth of information that made The Complete Guide so valuable, The New Complete Guide features a new, easy-to-read format and includes more statistical data, more information about educational paths to specific careers, new and expanded case studies, and in-depth analyses of environmental fields. Also included is general job-hunting information covering topics such as education, internships, volunteer programs, and career strategies.

About this title

About the Author

The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) is the country's leading environmental careers development organization. 

ECO's mission is to protect and enhance the environment through the development of diverse leaders, the promotion of careers, and the inspiration of individual action. ECO accomplishes this through internships, career advice, career products, research and consulting. 
 
Founded in 1972, ECO has placed nearly 7,500 college, grad students and recent graduates in environmental internships in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. ECO has become a leader in workforce diversity and mentorship, sponsoring 1,850 Associates from 200+ colleges through ECO's ground breaking Diversity Initiative, which began in 1992. And ECO services and resources reach out to hundreds of thousands each year through the combined programs of our national career conferences, top selling career book, research, college outreach programs and online through our website. For 30 years, ECO has been a pathway to environmental careers.

Reviews

This guide stems from the work of the Environmental Careers Organization, a national nonprofit group offering advice and the arrangement of short-term internships or other jobs for those seeking environmental careers. Since the first edition ( LJ 10/1/89), a new set of case studies and profiles of successful (generally very successful) environmentalists illustrate career possibilities. A major theme of the book is that on-the-job experience or even volunteer work is enormously important to someone trying to get her foot in the door of an environmental career. So is a proper education. The author is extremely well informed on career possibilities, offering statistics on salary, number employed in each job, and who is hiring. A person wanting a career in environmental planning and protection or natural resource management would certainly put themselves ahead of the game by reading this book.
- Sue McKimm, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, Ohio
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559631783
• ISBN 13: 9781559631785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380