Navigating career paths can be a daunting challenge…
#94: Volunteering Abroad for Wildlife Biology: Interview with Matt Snider
Experience is critical to build your career in wildlife, ecology, or conservation biology. When you’re just starting out though, this can be hard to get. Even unpaid volunteer positions can be treated like jobs where you apply and can get rejected…
#93: The Power of Tiny Changes Using Atomic Habits in Your Wildlife Career
As a wildlife professional, I understand the struggles that many professionals in this field face when trying to secure a job. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the larger goals and overlook the smaller, yet crucial, steps needed to succeed…
#92: Never Give Up on Your Wildlife Dream Job: Interview with Francisco Llauger
I love hearing success stories from people who have finally landed their dream jobs, especially after challenging and twisty career paths. I always like to say, your current situation is not your final destination, so I believe to strive toward your dream relentlessly….
#91: Finding Your Identity in Wildlife Work
When I give advice to young wildlife professionals or those aspiring to go into this career, I always tell them to reverse engineer it. To “start with the end in mind,” (a quote from Stephen Covey), but what if you don’t know what the end looks like?
#90: From Web Developer to Starting an Environmental Career: Interview with Melina Shak
Have you ever thought about starting an environmental career, but instead chose a more “safe” and “secure” route? Or maybe you are currently tempted by it or you simply didn’t know how to go about a wildlife career and took a path that was more easily laid out?…
