CAREER DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

We offer professional staff and peer review of job search materials.

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Our Mission

The mission of the Career Development Office (CDO) is to educate, empower and support F&ES students as they actively seek internships and employment to advance their career visions, and to develop relationships with organizations to promote the hiring of our students into environmental leadership positions.

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Practice Interviewing with OptimalResume's Interview Practice Technology

OptimalResume, the award-winning web-based resume builder, is not just for resumes. Log-in or create an account to use the interview practice module. All masters students are eligible to create an account to participate in the resume book and for personal use.

Branches Database

Find an alumni-sponsored internship or research project or connect with alumni to discuss careers.

Find a Job or Internship

Our Global eRecruiting Outreach (GeO) is a searchable database with job and internship listings in a wide variety of environmental fields, comprised mainly of opportunities specifically targeting F&ES.

Yale Career Network

The Yale Career Network (Yale^CN) is a database of alumni who are interested in networking with you.

The official LinkedIn group for current students, graduates, faculty, and staff of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). Environmental Studies majors from Yale College may also join. Learn more about setting up and using your LinkedIn account in this video.

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Career Resources Through Yale Libraries

Career Research Guides

Vault's Career Insider: Career e-books, internship database, discussion boards, and articles about companies, careers and industries.
Going Global: 10,000+ pages of constantly-updated content on job search sources, employment trends, salaries and more.
Hoover's Company Records: Profiles 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives.
The Leadership Library: Personnel contact database of institutional leadership of the United States, with information on more than 400,000 individuals leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations.

CDO is open to F&ES master's and doctoral students and alumni. Students' spouses and significant others may seek assistance in local job searches. Other Yale students interested in environmental careers must seek a referral from their “home” career office.

CDO Event Calendar

Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays Info Session
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Other Location
Contact: kathryn Douglas

State Department Information Session
Monday, September 30th, 2013
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Other Location
Contact: Kathryn Douglas

19th Duke Yale Environmental Recruiting Fair
Friday, February 7th, 2014
7:30am - 4:00pm
Other Location
Contact: Kathy Douglas

Alumni TGIF and Networking Reception
Friday, February 7th, 2014
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Other Location
Contact: Kathy Douglas

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