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Environmental Careers
Reference Guide
Davidson Library, UCSB
The resources on this guide are starting points for finding
information on careers and internships in Environmental Sciences. Ask a reference librarian for further
assistance at the 1st floor Reference Desk, or at the Sciences-Engineering Library
(SEL) Reference Desk on the 2nd floor, or consult Janet Martorana,
the Collection Manager for Environmental Sciences.
Contents:
[Campus and Web Resources]
[To find books]
[To find articles]
[Selected Environmental Careers Books in the UCSB Library]
- UCSB's Career Services
Located in Building 599, the "pink building." Offers a variety of services to help UCSB students assess their
strengths, values, and interests. They have information on careers and internships, listings of
job openings, and information on employers, and they can help you figure out what you want.
- The Environmental Studies Program
includes a link to their Environmental Studies
Internship Program (ESIP). Current listings are available at the UCSB Environmental Studies Peer Advisor's Office
located in Girvetz 2325. The office also contains a variety of job and career resources available to
help in selecting an environmental job or career suitable for you.
Check out their
What You Can Do With a Degree in Environmental Studies!" handbook. [pdf]
- The Bren School of Environmental Science
and Management contains career resources, listings of environmental jobs, and maintains a
Career Services program.
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Career & Job Information is a good place to start to find information
about the career development process. The first four sections of the page
correspond to the four steps of the career development process:
- Self Assessment
Resources to help you assess your strengths, interests, and values, and relate them to
career choice.
- Career Identification
Descriptions, forecasts, and other information about specific careers
- Job Announcements
Contains links to a wide variety of job ads
- Personal Presentation
Sources of information on how to present youself to a prospective employer, and
on researching a company in preparation for an interview
- Career SuperSites
Links to several extensive career and job information sites
Environmental Careers Resources on the Web:
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- PEGASUS
- Search for books and other materials on PEGASUS, using key words describing your topic in
Keyword searches:
- environmental industries
- ecology vocational guidance
- environment* jobs [the * truncates a word (retrieves alternate
word endings: "environmental," "environmentalists," etc.)]
- environment* careers
- conserv* job*
Use words that describe your topic until you find material that suits your needs.
For example, try using these words in your searches:
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conservation vocational guidance
ecology vocational guidance
environmental internship*
environmental vocational guidance |
| environmentalists
green movement vocational guidance
natural resources management
pollution control vocational guidance |
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- Choose from the list of Indexes & Databases
to search for articles.
- Accessible from ucsb.edu addresses, or via the campus
proxy server.
- Business Source Premier:
- An index of articles in business journals, including numerous trade journals,
which contain articles on job hunting, resume writing, and company information.
This database contains full text of many of the articles.
- Sample searches:
- wages and environmental and engineer*
- [engineer* retrieves engineer and engineers and engineering]
- job openings and trends
- job descriptions and environmental*
- waste management and jobs
- occupational outlook quarterly in the "SO Publication Name" field
- to find full-text articles in the journal Occupational Outlook Quarterly
- waste management inc in the "CO Company Entity" field
- for articles about the company Waste Management Inc.
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Index of articles in magazines and journals including numerous
career-related articles, many of which are full text.
- Sample searches:
- You can limit your search to a particular journal title: occupational outlook quarterly
- to search for full-text articles in the journal Occupational Outlook Quarterly
- Keyword search: environmental and vocational guidance
- chemical engineers and employment
- job vacancies and forecasts
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- 100 Jobs in the Environment
- SEL GE60 .Q56 1996
- Careers for environmental types & others who respect the
Earth
- SEL GE60 .F365 2002; also available on the web via NetLibrary [UCSB
only]
- Careers in the Environment
- SEL GE60 .F37 2000
- Challenging Careers In The Natural Resources Conservation
Service
- Govt Pub, US A 1.68:1634
- The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century
- SEL GE60 .D69 1999
- The ECO guide to careers that make a difference.
- SEL GE60 .E34 2004
- Education for the Earth: the College Guide for Careers in the
Environment 2nd ed.
- SEL Reference Area GE80 .E33 1995
- Great jobs for environmental studies majors
- SEL GE60 .D44 2002
- Green at Work: Finding a Business Career that Works for the
Environment
- Main Lib HF5382.75 .U6 C64 1995
- The Green Corporation: the Next Competitive Advantage
- Main Lib HD30.255 .B49 1996
- Opportunities in Environmental Careers
- SEL GE60 .F36 2002; also available on the web via NetLibrary [UCSB
only]
- Preparing for a Career in the Environment
- SEL GE60 .P74 1998
- Resumes for Environmental Careers
- GE60 .R48 2003
- Your career conserving and managing the environment
- SEL S495 .Y68 1999
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Author: Janet Martorana.
Last modified: August 2007
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