Monitoring general market and environmental trends should be an important part of your life-long career development plan. Being connected with the outside world and understanding the big picture can help you stay abreast with the times and maintain a marketable and useful portfolio of skills. While environmental trend information can be useful for identifying the jobs with the highest projected demand, you must remember that with all fields, and especially the environmental field, change is constant. A career that exists today probably will not be around tomorrow or will require an entirely different set of skills.
Hot careers are like hot stocks.
By the time you realize the career is hot, it is already starting to cool down. Many of these skills are listed below under Transferable Skills. By choosing to attend the Bren School's interdisciplinary program, you have already begun this preparation. The environmental marketplace faces a shortage of people who can weave together elements from numerous disciplines and develop workable integrated solutions to highly complex environmental challenges. Bren School graduates will be in demand throughout the world in many organizations, including corporations, consulting firms, government agencies, non-profit organizations, universities, and research companies.