Best Online Resources for Environmental Jobs

You've gotten your science degree and want to save the planet but don't want to sort seeds for minimum wage. And why should you? The environmental field is one of the fastest growing career sectors with lots of interesting prospects for job seekers. Here are some of the best online resources for environmental jobs.

Green Dream Jobs

There are listings in green building, renewable energy, organics, social investing and sustainable business. No matter where you are in your career, Green Dream Jobs helps you find positions from internships, volunteer openings, entry, mid and senior level in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and beyond.

Green Biz

Business, the environment, the bottom line. That's Green Biz's motto. Here you can search for environmental jobs in the United States and Canada. Green Biz also allows job seekers to post their resumes and for employers to search the database of potential employees.

At Green Biz there are career tools like a guide on how to land the environmental job of your dreams. There's also a Green Career Advisor with insight on choosing the right career and what to do to get a job in your chosen field. Life in the Trenches offers profiles of real people who've found their environmental dream job. Green Biz's Career Resources offers links to organizations, news and other online environmental job banks.

Ethical Performance

Environmental jobs include the mainstream business sector in the fields of corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment. Why? Because when people aren't exploited, resource exploitation decreases as well.

This site has many postings in the field of sustainability. Sustainable business practice, sustainable energy practice and sustainable ecological practice add up to equal a healthy planet and productive economies that work in harmony with natural resources, including people.

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)

In line with Ethical Performance, BSR offers a large collection of online tools and guidelines on corporate social responsibility and environmental job seekers. Much of the website is free, but some sections are reserved for members or subscribers only. Still, BSR offers a comprehensive guide to environment, human rights, community investment and worker's rights.

Some examples of job postings here include posts like Compliance Analyst at Jones Apparel Group, Director of Social Compliance at Toys 'R' Us and Director of Communications at Business for Social Responsibility.

Environmental Protection Agency

There are unique challenges to working from within the government sector and if this is where you want to affect change there's no better place to start your job search than at the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Jobs are sorted by applicant status including current and former federal employees, EPA internal employees and public job seekers. The EPA has extensive job postings for those with scientific specialties like toxicologists, ecologists, field biologists, chemists and interdisciplinary scientists. There are also listings that apply to administrative, information technology and human resource applicants.

Environmental Jobs and Careers

Known as "ejobs", this website offers a wide range of resources for the environmental job seeker. You can search a general job posting, job postings with the US or Canadian governments, environmental employers by state or by company including law firms and non-profits. There is information on environmental jobs salaries, resume tips as well as other career resources and links to environmental job boards in the UK and Australia.

In addition to the targeted information on each website, each online resource listed here has an extensive network of links to resources for environmental job seekers that's sure to get your environmental job search going in the green direction.

Green Dream Jobs www.sustainablebusiness.com/jobs/

Green Biz www.greenbiz.com/jobs/

Ethical Performance www.ethicalperformance.com

BSR http://bsr.org/jobs/csr/index.cfm

EPA www.epa.gov/careers/

Environmental Jobs and Careers www.ejobs.org