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The University of KentCareers and Employability Service
Careers with a Biodiversity/Wildlife Degree
You can download a copy of this presentation atwww.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm
Destinations of Kent Conservation and Wildlife Graduates
Biodiversity Careers Page
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/Environment.htm
Sources of Environmental Jobs Environment Post www.environmentpost.co.uk Major source of
conservation vacancies. Reference copies are in File R4 in the Careers Service.
ENDS www.ends.co.uk Environmental Data Services has listings of jobs. Includes a Consultancy Directory.
The Guardian on Wednesdays. Countryside Jobs Service www.countryside-jobs.com The Green Directory www.greendirectory.net/home.cfm Ethical Careers
Service http://peopleandplanet.org/ethicalcareers Nature Magazine www.nature.com/naturejobs/channels/graduate range of
postgrad, PHD and postdoc positions. Growing Careers www.growing-careers.com vacancies in environment and
conservation, nurseries and garden centres, Environmental Recruitment Agencies
Environment Job www.environmentjob.co.uk. Ecological Recruitment Co. www.eco-uk.com Green Technical Resourcing www.gtr.uk.com ADC Environment Recruitment www.green4u.co.uk
Many jobs in the environment are not advertised - organisations get enough CVs from people applying speculatively to be able to fill their vacancies from these. You need to network and be persistent. See CVs and Covering Letters www.kent.ac.uk/careers/applicn.htm and Creative Jobhunting www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/CJ.htm to learn how to do this.
CHOOSING A CAREER
• CHOOSING A CAREER BOOKLET - available from Careers Service.
• Prospects Planner - powerful career choice programwww.prospects.ac.uk/links/Pplanner
• Information on many graduate careers is at www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin.htm
One third of graduate jobs accept any degree subject.
BECAUSE:• Learn new skills
quickly• Analyse & solve
problems• Communicate well• Open to new ideas,
adaptable and flexible• “Managers of change”
• Marketing and Sales
• Retailing• Social Work• Personnel• Civil Service• Accountancy• Banking• Computing
Postgraduate Study
• Over 35% of Kent Bioscience graduates continue to postgraduate study
• MSc/M.Res – 1 year
• PhD - 3 years
• Teacher training – 1 year
• Medicine/radiography/ physiotherapy
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/postgradmenu.htm
Master's Courses• Soils and Environmental Pollution, University of Reading • Coastal and Marine Resource Management, University of
Portsmouth • Conservation and Tourism, University of Kent • Conservation Biology, University of Kent • Environmental Analysis and Assessment, Royal Holloway, University
of London • Environmental Diagnosis, Imperial College London • Environmental Impact Assessment, Oxford Brookes University • Environmental Policy, Planning and Regulation London School of
Economics and Political Science • Environmental Pollution Control, Middlesex University • Environmental Pollution Science, Brunel University • Environmental Technology, Imperial College London • Risk Management, Middlesex University • Rural Development, University of Sussex • Water and Environmental Engineering, University of Surrey • Environmental Law and Policy, University of Kent
EXAMPLE CVs
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/environmental-cv.htm
Check you campus emails regularly as I will send you many careers emails
Get voluntary experience for your CV:
Kent Wildlife Trust www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk conservation work in Kent including West Blean Woods. Needs volunteers. Run excellent and cheap wildlife study days on, for example, small mammal and bat identification
VACANCIES
University of Kent Vacancy Database
www.kent.ac.uk/ces/vacancies.html
Other talks
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/casevents.htm
BRUCE WOODCOCK
• A Duty Careers Adviser is available for short (15 minute) consultations: MORNINGS (10.30 am - 12.30 pm) and AFTERNOONS (2 to 4 pm). Don’t need to book an appointment just ask at reception in the Careers Service (Keynes College Driveway)
• If you need longer ring our reception on 01227 823299 to make an appointment for interview with me.
• Email: [email protected]
Location of the Careers Service
www.kent.ac.uk/careers Telephone: 01227 823299 Email: [email protected] times (no appointment needed): 10.30 to 12.30 & 2 to 4 pm
Careers Employability Award on Moodle
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/moodle.htm
Moodle Careers Employability Award 14 Quizzes: need 75% to pass but allowed
unlimited attemptsComplete 3 of the following seven
assignments•Employability skills quiz•Employability skills quiz: drag & drop•How to develop the skills employers want?•Test your spelling and grammar!•What makes you happy at work?•How commercially aware are you?
•Special interests topic lesson•Interview preparation•Practice interview•What are the most common interview questions?•Aptitude tests and assessment centres•CV quiz•CVs and covering letters: drag & drop quiz•Career planning drag and drop quiz
•Analyse your skills and learn how to make top quality applications
•Do you want to live to work or work to live?
•Researching careers
•Choosing a career
•Submit a CV
•Social media
•Action planning
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/moodle.htm#subject
Comments from students who have completed the award
You get a really nice certificate!
It was so easy, quick and I learned a lot.
Without realising, you have finished the course
and have already put together a very good CV
and covering letter.
It really blew my mind with some ideas I’ve never known
before, such as portfolio working and working from
home. I never thought about obtaining happiness from my
work before.
It would be mad to apply for a job or attend an
interview without doing it! Before the course I had only a vague
idea of my career path and opportunities. Now I am applying for summer internships and know how to
effectively sell my skills to a prospective employer and have a much
more focused plan for my future.
The module is very, very useful! I really love how it makes you to think about your personality and helps you to identify your
strengths and weaknesses.I found the module to be highly thought-provoking as it really
encouraged me to consider how my degree will benefit my future and what I can be doing now to
improve my graduate employment prospects.
I enjoyed the depth of the module. It went far beyond some general tips on
how to write a good CV and prepare for an interview. Rather it went in to detail
about the whole process of graduate job search from the beginning to the end. It
was very instructive .
The amount of time put into this is astounding! I actually spoke to friends from other universities who said they
wished they had something like this.
It has made me feel a lot more confident when it comes to
applications and interviews and has also made me think about skills that I didn't think I had
before. I recently had a very successful interview
largely because I put the advice on the module into
practice.
The University of KentCareers and Employability Service
Careers with a Biodiversity/Wildlife Degree
You can download a copy of this presentation atwww.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm
