Environmental remediation specialist skills for your resume and career

The attached paper is an excellent resource to answer that question, but I would recommend that they get experience in any of the following nonacademic skills: written and oral communication, project management, leadership, and field biology skills for those careers in which that is important.

Graduates are going to need practical skills and versatile skills. These skills can be applied to a variety of jobs in a variety of industries. A sustainability graduate should be able to offer just that. Of course, we are faced with large societal issues that a multitude of industries will need to be involved in solving. Specific skills would include problem-solving and project management. Graduates need to diagnose problems, offer sustainable solutions, and navigate the challenges of implementing such a solution.

Keep in mind the field of environmental science is quite broad, and so the hard or technical skills that are necessary for one specialty may be less important in another. Being able to code and work with big data are two skills that are becoming more important each day. Try to become semi-proficient in at least one coding language, but you will likely have to learn another in the not-so-distant future. While math was never my favorite subject, I admit that many of my classes became relevant in my work. It is hard to know when in your career applying what you learned about partial derivatives will become necessary, but it will, and you will wish you paid better attention in Calculus Class (speaking from experience). Being able to model, often a combination of coding and math, is a complex but valuable skill. When applied, this could mean using or understanding climate models, groundwater flow, population growth, viral spread, or predictions of any kind. Being able to model is a powerful tool.