A number of environmental job publications and career centers publish job vacancy announcements through newsletters or Web sites. Some are available primarily through paid subscriptions. Others offer their services without cost. Three of these are listed below. The first two are available by subscription but also regularly post a portion of their current edition on line without charge. The third posts environmental job opportunities exclusively on line and at no cost to users.
Looking for a job at UW-Madison? Check the university's list of faculty, academic staff, and limited-term position vacancies.
For part-time jobs, some on campus, check the UW Student Job Center listings.
The home page of UW-Madison's Career Services Office offers job search strategies, links to many employment networks, and job listings.
For other local job opportunities, check the City of Madison's employment listings and the Now Hiring page at madison.com. Sustain Dane's Green Pages also can be helpful in identifying potential local employers.
Jobs with Wisconsin state government can be found in WISCJOBS. Each agency may also feature its own employment page, such as the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
For other employment in Wisconsin, see the Wisconsin Job Center.
An extensive listing of current environmental jobs can be found at E Jobs.
A great web site for job searches is CYBER-SIERRA'S Natural Resources Job Search.
The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) is a national nonprofit organization that offers services including job and internship placement, career planning, and research.
The National Council for Science and the Environment offers an internship program with opportunities for permanent positions with NCSE.
The website links at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency include a list of current vacancies through the EPA jobs website as well as through other federal job posting sites.
Most environmental organizations now regularly post their job and internship openings online. Here are just a few of those:
The Orion Grassroots Network Internship & Career Service lists position openings with hundreds of environmental groups.
The Ecological Society of America posts career opportunities in a variety of fields, and the Society for Ecological Restoration offers another collection of job postings.
GreenBiz, a green business network maintains GreenBiz JobLink a free job-posting and resume-posting service for environmental professionals, from recent grads to career changers.
For leads to business and environmental jobs with sustainable employers, see Green Dream Jobs.
Earthworks-jobs.com features jobs in energy, oil, mining, earth system science, environmental science, remediation, as well as many other areas including agriculture, forestry, ecology, atmospheric science, oceanography, hydrology, hydrogeology, soil science, remote sensing, geographic information systems, civil engineering, and related fields.
The Society of Wetland Scientists web site lists job openings in wetland science.
UW-Madison's Water Resources Institute Library offers a web page called Finding a Water-Related Job.
The American Water Resources Association also maintains a web page for water-related jobs.
WebDirectory includes a long list of links to environmental jobs.
For jobs in environmental education, see EE Jobs and the EE Jobs Database. For environmental education positions in California, see the Association for Outdoor and Environmental Education joblist.
For job vacancies in energy, check the following Web sites:
Texas A & M offers a very comprehensive listing of environmental and natural resources career information and job opportunities on their Job Board.
The Peace Corps frequently offers a variety of environmental positions for volunteers.
To explore environmental career opportunities in the United Kingdom, visit environmentjob.co.uk and the Green Directory.
Academic360.com features a collection of web sites that post job announcements, some of which involve work in academia.
Classified ads in Science magazine, also published on line, are a good source of information about jobs in academia and other research organizations.
The British journal Nature publishes a careers magazine and web site called naturejobs with information about science jobs and vacancies.
The Chronicle of Higher Education web site includes most of the classified ads for academic positions that appear in the print version of the Chronicle.
The HigherEdJobs web site presents another good listing and search engine for faculty and staff positions.
And you will find even more academic jobs by exploring individual college and university web sites as well as the web sites of college and university environmental studies programs.
Still looking? Then check out the human resources pages of universities. Some of them include not only their own academic job listings but also links to their favorite academic job banks. The University of California-Santa Cruz provides a long list of job banks useful for academic job searches.
The Great Lakes Information Network devotes a portion of its web site to a job bank for postings of careers in the Great Lakes region.
The web site of UW-Madison's La Follette School of Public Affairs provides an extensive array of links to many categories of employment, including federal, international, nonprofit, and private sector.
To learn about international jobs, internships, or volunteer opportunities, visit Go Global! The International Careers Website, hosted by UW-Madison's Global Studies Program.
An excellent web site called The Riley Guide includes links to jobs in interdisciplinary areas such as earth, environmental, and water sciences.
For federal jobs and employment information, see the Web sites of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the FedWorld Information Network.
The Congressional Research Service offers a variety of employment opportunities in politics, teaching, writing, and science.
The Idealist, a project of Action Without Borders, features a home page with links to 10,000 nonprofit organizations around the world. These offer a wide variety of employment and internship opportunities, many in environmental areas. Additional non-profit job opportunities are available through the Non-Profit Career Network.
See this link for current vacancies at the The United Nations.
The Internet offers many job "banks": lists of job announcements that usually contain search features so that you can narrow the search by job title, discipline, or location. Among these are Monster.com, Jobs.com, America's Job Bank, Careerjet, and Net-Temps, which feature complete listings, government and private, for all 50 states, searchable by position or by state.
And finally, if you have a degree in environmental studies and are wondering where to begin, you may be interested in the following career guide put together by the Environmental Studies Program at the University of California-Santa Barbara: What Can You Do with a Degree in Environmental Studies?