Graduate Careers Australia

Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

Careers in Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability – More Information

INTRODUCTION

Context

In Australia

• www.businessroundtable.com.au/html/documents.html
• www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/corporations_ctte/corporate_responsibility/report
• www.camac.gov.au >>Reports
• www.asx.com.au/supervision/governance

Internationally

• http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php
• www.un.org/millenniumgoals
• www.ipcc-wg2.org
• www.clintonglobalinitiative.org
• www.globalreporting.org

STUDY AND QUALIFICATIONS IN CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

• www.isf.uts.edu.au
• www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/ccr
• www.swinburne.edu.au/business/philanthropy
• www.gsb.stanford.edu/csi

To search the various undergraduate and postgraduate course options throughout Australia check out www.goingtouni.gov.au .

JOBSEARCH IN CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

Ethical Employers

Things you can do

• Investigate reporting, benchmarking, eg. www.corporateregister.com contains many companies’ sustainability reports worldwide.

Get the Edge

• www.catalystnetwork.com.au

Voluntary work: Some sites you can check out are:

• Act Now – www.actnow.com.au
• Australian VolunteerSearch – http://jobsearch.gov.au/volunteer
• Australian Volunteers International – https://www.australianvolunteers.com
• Conservation Volunteers Australia – www.conservationvolunteers.com.au
• Go Volunteer – www.govolunteer.com.au
• Good Company – www.goodcompany.com.au
• Idealist – www.idealist.org
• Pro Bono Australia’s Volunteer Match – www.volunteermatch.com.au
• Seek Volunteer – www.volunteer.com.au
• Volunteer Now (NZ) – http://volunteernow.org.nz

…and there are many more.

Keeping Up To Date: Check out the following for email newsletters, talks, networking opportunities to develop your knowledge base and keep up to date:

International

• Caux Round Table – www.cauxroundtable.org
• CSRWire: The Newswire of Corporate Responsibility – www.csrwire.com
• Ethical Corporation – www.ethicalcorp.com
• Ethical Performance – www.ethicalperformance.com
• Ethics World (Author’s pick) – www.ethicsworld.org
• Global Reporting Initiative – www.globalreporting.org
• GreenBiz.com – www.greenbiz.com/current/daily-news
• SustainAbility – www.sustainability.co.uk
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development – www.wbcsd.ch

National

• Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) – www.accsr.com.au
• Australian Conservation Foundation – www.acfonline.org.au
• Clean Up Australia Day – www.cleanup.com.au/au
• CSIRO Sustainability Network – www.bml.csiro.au/sustnet.htm
• Ethical Investor – www.ethicalinvestor.com.au
• Models of Success & Sustainability (MOSS) – www.moss.org.au
• Our Community – www.ourcommunity.com.au
• Philanthropy Australia – www.philanthropy.org.au
• Positive Outcomes – www.positiveoutcomes.com.au
• The Climate Institute – www.climateinstitute.org.au
• Total Environment Centre – www.tec.org.au

Email groups

http://groups.yahoo.com – such as:

• greenleap@yahoogroups.com
• csrchicks@yahoogroups.com
• csrguys@yahoogroups.com

Warning: Watch out for inbox overload!

Stay Connected: www.catalystnetwork.com.au

Job Ads

Some national jobsites include:

• Pathways Australia – www.pathwaysaustralia.com.au
• industry-based websites, eg. the Clean Energy Council – http://cleanenergycouncil.org.au
• many of the websites and email groups in the Keeping Up To Date section above carry job ads.

Some international jobsites include:

• Acre, a specialist recruitment consultancy – www.acre-resources.co.uk
• Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) – www.bsr.org/resources/jobs
• CSR and SRI Job Site – www.ethicalperformance.com/recruitment/index.php .

Organisations With a Demonstrated Commitment in CSR

Check out the following CSR Ratings and listings:

• Australian Employers Network On Disability – www.aend.org.au
• Australian SAM Sustainability Index (AuSSi) – www.aussi.net.au
• Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI) – www.corporate-responsibility.com.au
• Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI) in the UK- Business in the Community – www.bitc.org.uk/what_we_do/cr_index
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (Global) – www.sustainability-index.com
• Employer Opportunity For Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) – www.eowa.gov.au
• New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development – www.nzbcsd.org.nz

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