Graduate Ethical Careers Jobs
Ethical Careers
Start salary: Many NGO or charity schemes do not pay to begin with, you will have to gain experience either in the ethical sector or with another company before you can hope for so much as a fairtrade bean.
Professional salary: Anywhere from £28,000-£60,000
Required qualifications: Graduate training schemes are not common for charities, but there are paid or unpaid schemes and internships available. Entry is often competitive: with over 300 applicants for each position.
Jobs available: 780,000 people in the UK work in an ethical career but last year saw a huge drop by -7.4%
Ethical careers have been booming for some years now - so much so that even some high street brands have what can be considered ethical posts. These roles will encompass creating and maintaining a company's ethical credentials by sourcing Fairtrade stock and running charity programmes.
More often an 'ethical career' is associated with working for a charity, NGO or not-for-profit organisation to bring some good to somewhere in the world. Starting out in the sector often involves a bit of volunteer work, but if you've got the qualifications then there's a wide range of careers for those of you with a conscience - from engineering and marketing to IT, teaching and the arts.
With ethical careers is not so much about what you do, as why you do it - working for a greater good, and not allowing personal values to slip.
There is no set career progression, job roles can vary and include charity fundraising, youth work, international aid work, or community development work. With the public's growing interest in ethical affairs, from Fairtrade to carbon emissions, many large companies are looking at ways to improve their record on social responsibility.
Graduate Ethical Careers Employers
| Dialogue Direct | Have you ever wanted to change things? DialogueDirect are looking ... | more |
Graduate Ethical Careers Case Studies
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JON BANKHEAD - POLICY ADVISORJon Bankhead is a Policy Advisor with the Department of Environment & Climate Change (DECC) ... more |
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PHIL CARSON-ENVIRONMENTAIL REMEDIATION ASSISTANTPhil Carson is an Intern with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as an Environmental Remediation Assistant. ... more |
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Louise Roberts - Voluntary Expedition - Trekforce WorldwideA combination of wages from my full time job at my local council and various fundraising efforts. People donated huge amounts of unwanted items that I sold on eBay or at car boot sales each Sunday. ... more |
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Caroline Redrup - ConservationMore and more organisations and individuals are asking for answers to environmental questions, and are seeing them as a business opportunity - it's an exciting place to be but it's also becoming more competitive to work there. ... more |
Graduate Ethical Careers Advice
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What do you call a dozen dead lawyers?.......A good start When did being a lawyer become a bad thing?... more |
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Take a look at the different routes into social work... more |
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Who’d want to be a social worker, eh? You’d have to want to... more |
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Think Before You Click - The Negative Side of Facebook The next time you’re about to upload pictures of your birthday party/night... more |
