A few moments ago I did an indeed search "for environmental consultant."
The search returned 4,362 vacancies, compared to the 721 academic
posts listed on the ecology job wiki. Now, many of these
solicitations were older and had not been removed from the web yet.
Others, certainly are not appropriate for an ecologist. But, the same
can be said of the 721 posted on the jobs wiki.
My point here is that if you are a doctoral ecology student, it
behooves you to take some courses in environmental
policy/environmental law/risk assessment/environmental assessment
before you graduate, maybe even a course or two in business management
or public administration. The pay is often better than what you get
in academia, and you still work on projects that can be pretty
intriguing. These will be very applied, and you will be expected to
beat the bushes for contracts I suspect. But, find me an academic who
is not expected to find $$.
I've applied for a few of these in the past, I'm sure many others
have. I get the feeling most positions are filled by MS level
employees, but I know plenty of PHDs doing this.
With so many people discussing employment opportunities, I felt it
might be worth mentioning this on the listserv. It would be
especially interesting to hear input form those who do this kind of
work. IT would probably be useful for the many people who are seeking
employment.
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Department of Environmental Studies
University of Illinois at Springfield
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