Conservation experience, like volunteer and internships, can open career doors and change lives – but finding the right opportunity can feel overwhelming, competitive or costly. 

In just a few hours, we’ll guide you through a proven 5-step process to find and secure meaningful experience, whatever your background, budget or career stage.

Backed by over a decade of insights from Conservation Careers, this short, practical course helps you clarify your goals, explore the full range of options available and focus your time and energy where it counts – for you.

Whether you’re launching, switching or levelling up your career, you’ll gain the clarity, strategies and confidence to gain experience with purpose.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

• Clarify your goals, values and motivations to guide your experience search.
• Identify conservation experience types that match your priorities and circumstances.
• Find advertised experiences, uncover hidden ones or create your own.
• Avoid exploitation and evaluate experiences in alignment with your goals and ethics.
• Use proven techniques to approach organisations and submit standout applications.
• Maximise learning, growth and career impact before, during and after your experience.