For New Grads, Green Jobs Are Plentiful
Newsweek just released a story featuring the increase in availability of environment-related jobs for 2007 college graduates, with openings ranging from environmental engineers to consultants growing at double-digit rates. The growth is in part due to companies implementing more green practices, but also because companies need help researching all the new environment-friendly trends.
“But employers and college guidance counselors say you don’t have to have studied conservation biology to work in a green field. ‘The environment is a career that can use any major, including history, anthropology, economics, policy, law and technology,’ says Karen Kirchof, assistant dean of career services at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.”
Not only are companies hiring more environment conscious employees, but more schools are offering environment-specialized majors in preparation. A simple Google search for “green jobs” pulls up a ton of websites devoted entirely to finding jobs related to the environment.
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MBAs Pick Gold Over Green
posted on January 19th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
[...] was less than a year ago that Newsweek published a story on the abundance of green jobs, but those were primarily in an entry-level capacity and not [...]