News & Announcements

2nd February 2012

It’s been a long time in the making, but we’ve finally deployed much better search to the site. Take a look and let us know what you think.

9th November 2011

We’re finally putting our twitter account to good use with a feed of the latest jobs.

19th October 2011

We just posted our 30,000 ad! It was this one:

Education Officer – The Isis Education Centre, The LookOut, Hyde Park.

14th July 2011

Just to let you know we’ve added a new filter to job search. You can now search by “Level”, choosing either “Entry Level”, “Mid Level” or “Senior”.

A much requested feature – just go to advanced job search to try it out.

31st January 2011

We’ve reached 40,000 subscribers to our email update! Not yet a subscriber? Sign up here. We make a point of never sending you anything except the weekly update.

18th November 2010

We’ve changed our company name! We wanted a name that better reflects what we do. The new name is Working Planet Limited. Don’t worry, we’ve not been bought or anything. The environmentjob.co.uk name won’t change. Our new company website is here: www.workingplanet.co.uk

20th September 2010

The new site is finally here, we upgraded over the weekend. For a list of what’s new see our ’What’s new’ page.

2nd September 2010

Coming soon, a new version of the EJ website! It’s taken more than a year and involved a complete rewrite, but it’s almost here. Check out our facebook page for some previews. We’ve tried to keep what people liked about the site – simplicity, speed, clarity, and added what was missing – keyword search, RSS, etc. We hope to be going live with it towards the end of September.

1st September 2010

We donate a proportion of our profit each year to environmental charities. Everyone who works for EJ gets to choose a charity for their share. This year we were pleased to split £4,000 between the Centre for Alternative Technology, Friends of the Earth, Waste Watch, Buglife, Life Cycle UK and the Marine Conservation Society. If you work for a charity and would like to put it forward for next year just email us a paragraph about the organisation and we’ll take a look.

25th March 2010

We’ve moved! We’re now based at the Innovation Centre, on the University of Exeter campus. Lots more space and great views of the city and hills. We can even see the sea (just)!

18th February 2010

A great start to the year with well over one million pageviews in January. By far the busiest month we’ve ever had, and it looks like February will be equally busy.

1st January 2010

A price rise this month, the first for a couple of years and only the 3rd we’ve ever had. We’ve kept prices fixed for those people who link to us from the jobs section of their website though. At £49 per ad for charities and £79 per ad for everyone else these rates are now even better value. If you’re interested in linking and getting these discounts, do get in touch.

5th October 2009

We’ve had some really great feedback recently – see our testimonials page. It’s really pleasing that people have found the site so useful.

1st October 2009

We have a new “most popular ad ever” – MSc Conservation Biology from the University of Cumbria with 9,072 click-throughs to the details page!

18th September 2009

We posted our 20,000th ad today. It was a Fundraising Officer ad for the RSPB. Long may it continue.

26th February 2009

A record number of pageviews in January – 940,000! We were kind of aiming for a nice round million – but that’s still an awful lot of clicks. We also had our most popular ever ad in December (an Environment Agency vacancy) with 8,188 click-throughs to the details page.

18th June 2008

We posted our 15,000 ad last week. Hurrah!

31st January 2008

We give 10% of our profit to environmental charities. At the end of 2007 we were happy to give money to the Sumatran Orangutan Society, Butterfly Conservation and the Alliance Against Urban 4×4s.

14th January 2008

We’ve now completed our user survey – thanks to all who took part and congratulations to Chris Dean who won the iPod. The results were interesting, lots and lots of you have found jobs through the site, and some people 3 or 4. Most people like the simplicity of site and they wanted to keep it very much as it is. There was a lot of interest in being able to customise the email update to only include specific locations or sectors though. That’s something we’ll implement this year.

11th December 2007

We’re interested in your thoughts on environmentjob.co.uk. Take part in our 2007 User Survey and you’ll be entered into our draw to win an iPod nano. Just email us your name and phone number. The survey shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes. Privacy: your telephone number will only be used for this survey, it will not be stored and will not be passed on.

19th November 2007

We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new site lowcarbon.com specialising in renewable energy, energy efficiency, climate and carbon jobs.

10th September 2007

A price rise this month, only the second in the 5 years we’ve been running – we’re still cheap though!

4th May 2007

A couple of new site features this month. We now have a Climate Change sector (about time!) and the ability to search for jobs by job function – administration, IT, HR, communications & PR – that sort of thing.

20th December 2006

Every year we donate 10% of our net profit (what’s left after expenses and salaries) to environmental charities. This year we were happy to give money to Devon Wildlife Trust, Trees for Life and the Bat Conservation Trust.

15th November 2006

Big news! We now advertise courses and events as well as jobs and volunteering.

We’ve updated the search page and email update to reflect this and hopefully make it just as easy to find what you’re looking for. We’ve also added the ability to search for more than one sector and location at a time.

28th July 2006

Take a look at our new profiles page. Want to know how to get a job in conservation? Or what’s involved in being a Wildlife Officer? Read first hand accounts from those in the know!

9nd June 2006

We though it would be interesting for people to see what’s popular on the site – hence our new Top 20 page – the 20 most viewed ads on the site, updated constantly.

26th March 2006

We now do logos! If you’re advertising, just tick the “Include logo” checkbox when creating an ad, and we’ll contact you and upload your logo for display. A bargain at £10 per ad.

28th February 2006

2006 started with a bang for us, with our busiest month by far; 600,000 pageviews and 122,000 visits in January. We’re working away at some interesting additions to the site, and so keep an eye out for those in the coming months.

1st November 2005

We’ve increased our prices, although hopefully still great value! New pricing is here.

Why a price increase? Well the website is now attracting a huge amount of traffic, 450,000 pageviews in September, and we need to invest in some serious hardware to cover future growth. Most importantly though we have some really exciting plans for developing the service in future, all of which will be made possible with this price change.

5th September 2005

It’s our birthday! environmentjob.co.uk is 3 years old this week. We’ve also managed to get some of the results from the user survey we undertook at the beginning of the year online. They’re here. You’re a pretty clever and experienced lot!

12th July 2005

We finally have some of our testimonials on the site. We were in two minds because testimonials can be pretty cheesy – but people have been very kind in what they’ve said and so we wanted to have them on the site.

19 February 2005

January was again out busiest month ever, up 30% from our previous busiest month to 400,000 pageviews. Many more advertisers signing up with us and passing the 14,000 subscriber mark for our jobs by email service have made this a great month.

15 July 2004

We signed up our 10,000th subscriber to our jobs by email service today, a great milestone for us. After 18 months online we think we’re now the number one jobs and volunteering resource for the sectors we cover. To join the 10,000 sign up here!

23 April 2004

March was our busiest month so far with 245,000 page views and 55,000 visits. Our email update is now emailed to more than 8,500 subscribers each week.

28 March 2004

We’ve been copied! They say imitation is the sincerest from of flattery but this is taking it a bit far – they’ve lifted the idea, the layout, the structure, even whole sentences – we think our three photos are nicer though.

16 January 2004

Refer a new advertiser to us and we’ll send you a lovely bottle of organic wine to say thanks. More information.

1 October 2003

We have started charging for jobs ads, details here, this will allow us to develop the site, spend some money on marketing and pay some wages. Volunteers ads are still free.

1 September 2003

It’s our birthday! environmentjob.co.uk has now been online for a year.

26 August 2003

After a year of running environmentjob.co.uk for free we are planning to charge for job ads on the site from end of September. We are aiming to set charges that are fair but which allow us to continue to run the site and even pay some wages. What we have in mind is £30 per ad for advertisers who link to us from ther website and £50 per ad otherwise. Volunteer ads will continue to be free. Any feedback on these charges appreciated.

13 August 2003

The last couple of month have seen huge growth in both the number of advertisers and job seekers using the site. July was our busiest month so far with 226,000 pageviews and 28,000 visits. Our Jobs by Email update is now mailed to 4,000 subscribers.

10 April 2003

March was another very busy month with 175,000 page views and 19,000 visits, again the busiest month so far. We’ve added a “latest” page which lists the postings added in the last couple of days, we hope this is useful.

1 March 2003

environmentjob.co.uk has now been online 6 months, we hope that you have found the site a useful resource. February was our busiest month so far with 125,000 pageviews and 14,000 visits. Advertising job and volunteer vacancies is still free, feedback is telling us that employers are receiving a useful number of good quality applicants from their ads.