Throughout your academic career as an environmental student, you will acquire transferable skills that can be put on your CV for jobs applications. Check out the list below for skills you can add to yours:
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Literature research
Being able to read and synthesize a lot of material is an important skill for many corporate, policy-advising, or dry lab jobs. -
Specific research software
Most second year geographers begin to learn how to use research software to further analyze their data, so adding programs like R and SPSS to your CV make your skills useful to many different STEM jobs. -
Specific GIS software
Any remote or large scale research operations will need people who can visualize their data and make it useful through map making. -
Field research/specific wet lab techniques
Conservation, environmental health, and research jobs are looking for people who have experience in the specific research techniques they utilize which makes you stand out on your CV if you already have that experience. -
Excel
Excel is always a staple of corporate jobs, but all environmental scientists need to know how to handle datasets using Excel because it is the standard of most research positions as well. -
Presentation and public speaking
Science communication is incredibly important to actually implement the ideas researched in environmental science and your university will teach you how to effectively achieve this. -
Report writing
If you are looking for a career in academic research, honing in on how to write proper scientific reports is incredibly important.