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Where the Internet Might Help You Look for Opportunities for Employment Working with Wildlife Resources

Consider a broad job search using hireknowledge.

The following information was supplied by by Doug Holt (theholts@MINDSPRING.COM) and andy@cqs.washington.edu.

Great Sites:

More Specialized Sites:

In some cases, select people have direct access to Congress or their staffs:

(Some addresses to keep on file:)

White House Comment Line - 202-456-1111

White House Fax Line - 202-456-2461

Pres. George W. Bush's e-mail - president@whitehouse.gov

Vice-Pres. Dick Cheney's e-mail - vice-president@whitehouse.gov

White House Address - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20500

US Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121

To contact your senators - http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm

To contact your representative - http://www.house.gov/writerep

Quick Route to U.S. Congress:

http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites)

http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites)

http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search)

Started in July, 2001, there is an Internet website designed specifically for high school and college students who are looking for temporary employment with the federal government. The site lists federal job openings and provides information about the federal hiring process, programs and benefits.

Check http://www.environmentalcareer.com a site with folks working since 1995.

Comments (email March, 2001) from Doug Holt

Subject: what should job applicants include in their resumes

After having hired about 10 technicians during the last two years, here are some suggestions that I would make. First, contact your references before you put them down. More than once I contacted a reference to find out that they did not know a great deal about the applicant's work experience or even worse, had some reservations about recommending the person in question. If a reference has some concern about a person's ability to perform, I move that application to the bottom of the pile immediately. Secondly, I would like to see a boatload of related experience, but that is not always possible. Like others, I had to work my way through my undergraduate education. The chance of finding a part time job during school in this field is very slim, especially since you are not the only one in you major. Everybody that you are in school with is looking for the same thing. I would suggest using all relevant work experience and then filling out your resume with other work that you have done as needed. After all, some technician jobs require data entry as well as data collection and an office job while in school may equip a person to handle data entry very well. I think the thing that impresses me most about an applicant is their ability to work hard and learn what is required of them. Most times this can be determined by talking to references at jobs in fields other than wildlife. We all had little or no experience at some point in time and somebody was willing to give us a chance and our resumes grew from there.

As far as the recent discussion about using e-mail to check references goes, I prefer that everybody that send me an application include e-mail addresses and phone numbers for references. I prefer picking up the telephone to check references. I think you get more from a conversation than an e-mail message. However, some people are not easily reached by telephone and e-mail is an efficient way for them to give a reference when they have a little time to spend on it. I don't mind being called or receiving e-mail about somebody that has included me as a reference. I think this is a function of the amount of time that we have to spend on each task that is put before us on a daily basis.

Doug Holt
rdh4@ra.msstate.edu
Graduate Research Assistant
Mississippi State University

See Biomedicine Science - Jobs , new in 2002. There are peripherally-related job opportunities here. This has a European base.

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