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The Environmental Jobs Network is a national not-for-profit organisation providing a range of services for people seeking education and employment in the environment sector. EJN is Australia's leading online resource for environmental job seekers, educators and employers - offering a hub of environment-related resources and information regarding jobs, events and education.

New Job Seeker? Career Changer? Start here - EJN's Environmental Careers Workshop & One to One Advice Sessions 2011


Resources

Resources to help you find and develop your environmental career

To help you with your environmental career, EJN has developed and sourced a number of resources. See below for more information about support services and resources available to you.

Find out more about EJN's career services. These include workshops, one-to-one career counselling sessions, group talks and networking events.

EJN has partnered with iDlogik - Australia’s leading eResume web site. Get your environmental career off on the right track by building your own paperless online resume today.

Over the years EJN has developed a number of publications containing information on career pathways, courses in leaflet and poster formart that you may find useful.

Detailed in the resource section you will also find a selection of career profiles, showcasing a wide variety of careers.

Finally to help you access the networks and information you will need in finding and developing your environmental career, we list a number of networks and websites that you can access.

Our Career Services

Environmental Career Workshops

These two hour workshops have been developed by recruitment and career development specialists. They are aimed at graduates / soon to be graduates and careers changers to provide advice and guidance on how to get you started in the environmental industry! The structure of the session addresses:

    *What is an Environmental Job?
    *Career Development Cycle (Self Assessment, Exploration and Implementation)
    *Sharing the frustrations – Group work
    *Strategies to overcome frustrations – Group work
    *Your top tip from the evening
    * Question and answer session

The workshops are generally organised to run the third wednesday evening of every month, between 6.15 - 8.15pm. Entry is $60, including GST. Attendees receive a free copy of the EnviroPluck DVD. For information on the next workshop visit the Events page.

Environmental Careers One-on-One Sessions **NOW IN SYDNEY TOO**

These 45 minutes session are run by our recruitment and career consultants. The session includes one-on-one advice and a CV review. They take place every Wednesday between 2pm - 3pm (Melbourne) and every Tuesday between 12 - 1pm (Sydney) or can be done over the phone (for other states). Other times may be arranged to suit on request, if our consultants are agreeable. The costs are:

    * Full Time Student / unemployed: $60 (including GST).
    * Part Time Student: $66 (including GST).
    * Professional / Employed: $80 (including GST).

Networking Sessions

Our experience tells us that not only is networking the most important activity to do when job hunting, but is the most difficult. EJN has therefore developed Networking sessions to enable you to pick up some tips and techniques to break that silence, make the first move and be a confident networker. Organised every quarter, the session take place in social settings and involve several fun exercises. For information on the next session visit the Events page.