Career Pathways

Our Job Changers are people who have had a number of different roles in their career. The stories often contain:

• non-linear pathways
• multiple sectors
• transferrable skills

You can find some examples of Job Changers below.

Our path-ers that have stories about learning on the job have taken a number of different career paths. They include:

• People with no or delayed experience of going to university
• People who have learned from doing internships
• People who used transferrable skills to make it into the sector and learn from there

Some examples are included below.

There are a number of well-known, potential barriers to entering the environmental sector. Many of our path-ers have shared stories with us about how they have dealt with barriers in their path including:

• having no knowledge of environmental careers or the environment
• overcoming barriers placed in front of them because of mental or physical health
• lack of self-belief
• a lack of mentorship or role models in the sector

You can find some of these stories below.

Many of our path-ers enjoy doing creative work and some have managed to take that creativity and make it part of their job, or fit alongside it. You can find some examples of this below.

One of the biggest problems in accessing the environmental sector is the expectation of doing lots of free work to land your first job. While we need to fix this problem, there our path-ers have a number of stories of how volunteering has benefitted them, or how they have done it in a sustainable way.

Find some examples of these below.

A number of our path-ers have become leaders in their field or organisation after various experiences within and without the environmental sector.

Find some examples below.

A number of our path-ers have had a real influence on the jobs they are doing. These include people who:

• have created a role within their organisation
• do freelance work either all or part of the time
• have used hobbies and interests to help them get jobs in the sector

You can find examples of these below.

Some of our path-ers have stuck on the course towards academia, but haven't always followed the smoothest path.

Find out more below.

Many of our path-ers have used their transferrable skills in their work, but a few of them talk how they think these skills got them one of their jobs in the environment sector. Find some examples below.