Environmental Conservation Jobs in the Federal Government (DOI, USDA) / Bachelor’s degrees

Looking for jobs when you're in college

or just graduated can be a real

nightmare.

When I first graduated, I had no idea

what I was doing and I ended up just

falling into this rut of doing seasonal

job after seasonal job.

This video is going to go over pretty

much the biggest tips that I have to

avoid these mistakes if you're somebody

that's interested in going into the

federal field, or just looking at it.

In this video, I'm gonna give you some

quick tips on how to not only find good

job postings for the federal government,

but assess the quality of them

as well as give you three cool career

tracks that I've learned about and tell

you what they do.

Hi, I'm Danny and this is ecology story

mode,

now in the federal service, there's

seasonal jobs and then there's full-time

jobs.

If you're a recent graduate, what you

probably want to do is look at full-time

jobs. A lot of people will tell you that

you have to go into the seasonal work

before you do that that's complete and

total myth.

Most of the people that I've met that

have full-time jobs in the federal

services got their bachelor's degree and

went straight into their full-time job

and raised through the ranks. Now, the

best job services that are in the

federal government are

going to allow you to not only raise the

fastest but also go the highest

in your federal service. Now, the first

thing that you want to look for when you

apply to jobs is looking for a job that

takes you from

five to nine or five to eleven when you

go to the bottom of the job posting.

It'll show you all the different

ranks that you could potentially qualify

for now if you're just out of college.

You don't have to worry if you're only

applying for a gs5 because what that

shows you is what your actual increase

in grade is going to be every single

year. So if you apply to a job that's gs

539 or gs5 through 11,

each year, you're gonna go five seven

nine and then if you apply to one that

has an eleven.

All the way up to eleven this has the

benefit of taking you to a higher salary

in the federal government at a quicker

pace,

and allowing you to progress more the

other thing that I think makes these job

postings really good is that they'll

allow you to get all the way up to the

top

ranks of the federal services without

having to go back to school to get a

master's degree.

All of these jobs by the way are going

to have the same pay range regardless of

which field you go into the only things

that are really going to impact the

amount of money you make

on these jobs is how much you get to

work with. Something like fire as well as

where you live.

If you live in the middle of nowhere or

really small town, you're probably going

to make about 36k

your first year. If you find one of these

jobs in a bigger city or a bigger

metropolitan area, you can make as much

as 50k your first year and then just

continue to go up from there now the

first job on this list is going to be

natural resource specialist.

This job is for you if you like working

on restoration projects and wetland

areas if you want to work in riparian

areas with

plants, fish, other animals. This job is

going to give you a lot of unique

opportunities to work with a lot of

different

sensitive resources and sensitive

habitats mostly focused around wetland

riparian areas.

Sometimes mining sites and things of

that kind what will you be doing. You

might ask

this job is generally a 50/50 split

between being in the field and being in

the office.

When you're in the field, you're probably

going to be looking at things like

surveying

fish looking at browsing patterns in

riparian areas,

and doing different forms of measurement

to assess the stability of stream banks

as well as looking at the evolution of

streams over time

and rivers and lakes or whatever else is

in the area that you work. The other

fifty percent of the time you're going

to be in the office and you're going to

be writing up plans to do things like

restoration projects, maybe enclosures

for areas that you think are sensitive

and getting over-browsed or something

as well as just looking at general

management. If there's recreation or

grazing going on in the area

things that can reduce the impact over

time. The second job on this list is

going to be

soil conservationist if you've taken a

soils class

that overrides on top is pretty much

most of the work that you're going to be

doing. In this job, you're going to

perform land and soil surveys and

your real focus is going to be working

on one of the biggest issues that's

plaguing the entire United States and

the entire world,

and that's a soil loss topsoil lost.

Specifically, you're going to be working

with agricultural lands because in order

for us to get food,

we need to have organic batter in the

soil and right now, we're losing a lot of

that

at a depressingly fast rate. And so the

recommendations that you're going to

make

and the things that you're going to put

into place are going to help prevent

erosion,

do restoration work on agricultural land

that allows farmers to change their

land over to wetland or something else

like that and gives them a little bit of

money instead of growing crops if

they're getting

older or just don't want to do that

anymore or if they're really concerned

about conservation.

If you're passionate about the

agricultural landscape of the united

states and just having sustainable food

this is a great job for you the third

job on this list is going to be a range

management

slash range conservationist. The two

different names are really just

depending on

what location and what agency you apply

to now this job's for you.

If you like the environment and you want

to be a cowboy,

your main responsibilities on this job

are going to be to look at upland botany

and you're going to make measurements

doing things like stubble height surveys

and just identification

to look at utilization by grazing from

either cattle or other stuff depending

on if it's wilderness or grazing land,

you're going to use this data to make

management plans for wilderness areas as

well as

grazing pastures that are used by cattle.

This is an awesome job in my mind

because not only do you get to do stuff

like work with fire and other resources

around the area

also get to work with people like the

natural resources specialist and get

involved in things that are restoration

plans,

and other things and you just get a

really large scope of things that you

get to do

as well as just enjoying your day on the

prairie.

For those of you that are in college and

not in the know pretty much 30 percent

of the US land mass is used for grazing

right now.

I hope this video helps you find your

way when it comes to looking for jobs

and

potentially choosing one of the federal

services. If this is the kind of video

that you like, I'm planning on making a

lot more of these

comment any questions or suggestions

that you have

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a good day.