For decades, the Environmental Careers Organization has been hooking up students with career options in environment-related fields. The ECO site is a central clearinghouse for internship information covering the entire U.S.
Visitors navigate the site using a clean, active button bar on the left side of the browser window. Everything can be reached from these buttons.
The heart of the site is the Paid Internships section. Here, you'll discover paid internship opportunities organized by geographic area -- namely, U.S. Eastern, Northwest, Central and Southwest regions. Choose the Overview button, and you can download the ECO Career Guide, an Adobe Acrobat .PDF document that's well worth a look.
The Conferences section offers fairly detailed information about the National Environmental Career Conference, along with coverage of career fairs and other events that focus on environmental careers.
Want to learn about diversity in environmental careers? The ECO Diversity Initiative section is a one-stop library of information on this topic. There's even a directory of organizations of color.
The ECO Alumni Network section includes a unit called Success Stories. At the time the site was reviewed for CX, the feature interview was with Angela Anderson, an ECO graduate who went on to work with Columbia University's exciting Biosphere 2 project.
Of course, the ECO site provides the obligatory Links page -- cleverly disguised as a News page. It delivers general career site links, plus connections to environmental job resources across the Web.
One of the neat bits of the ECO site is the Postcards section. It's the bottom item on the navigation bar. A trio of people in environmental jobs are featured in brief vignettes -- complete with photos.
Going by appearances, the ECO site isn't updated very frequently, other than the internship listings. Still, the information is invaluable for anyone looking for opportunities in environmental fields. If you don't have this site in your Ecocareers bookmark or favorites list, you'll want to add it.
If you'd like information about this website, or the Environmental Careers Organization, contact them here:
The Environmental Careers Organization
Internet:
http://www.eco.org/
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