While speaking directly with employers might seem daunting, it is a recognised and effective way of developing a career direction and finding graduate employment. One excellent strategy for meeting with employers is to join a professional association.
Professional associations may conduct conferences, seminars, presentations and social functions to help members keep abreast of current practices and for networking purposes. For students, these events can be an excellent source of contacts and relevant information. Membership is usually open to students at a reduced rate. The following association websites are relevant to Environmental Science:
- Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers
- Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists
- Australasian Bioethics Association
- Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine
- Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association
- Australasian Society for Ecotoxicology
- Australasian Society for General Relativity & Gravitation
- Australasian Society for Human Biology
- Australasian Society of Immunology
- Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists
- Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Development Biology
- Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Division
- Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science
- Australian Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Australian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
- Australian Health Promotion Association
- Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology
- Australian Institute of Physics
- Australian Marine Sciences Association
- Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
- Australian Mathematical Society
- Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Association
- Australian Optical Society
- Australian Pattern Recognition Society
- Australian Physiological Society
- Australian Society for Microbiology
- Australian Society for Biophysics
- Australian Society for Fish Biology
- Australian Society for Medical Research
- Australian Society of Soil Science
- Australian Science Communicators
- Australian Water Association
- Australia's Young Statisticians
- Epigenetics Society
- Genetics Society of Australasia
- Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand
- Human Genetics Society of Australia
- Health Informatics Society of Australia
- Marine Education Society of Australia
- Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia & New Zealand
- Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
- Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- Society for Australian Systematic Biologists
- Society for Conservation Biology
- Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
- Statistical Society of Australia
- Telecommunications Society of Australia
- Advance Australian Professionals in America
- Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand