National Park Service Jobs with no Degree Requirements!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
- A video for people who want to find out about jobs in the NPS that you don't hear about as much!
Here's just a really intro list of National Park Service jobs that you can find with no degree requirements, hope the links help!
Wildland Firefighting: www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/wil...
Structural Firefighting: www.nps.gov/orgs/1231/index.htm
Park Guide: www.parkrangeredu.org/nationa...
Maintenance: www.nps.gov/articles/000/nps-...
Facilities: www.nps.gov/pais/learn/manage...
0:00 Intro
0:29 Building/Trails
1:15 Fire
2:01 Guide
Thanks for checking out the video, I hope it was informative or entertaining! Check out the links in the description if you want to see more about any of the the things I talk about in this video!
I only have a military background and worked with the CCC for while. I was on the Dixie fire and have my blue card, but they said it’s hard to even get your foot in. I have been trying, but it’s so random and I was loosing hope until I found your channel. I will keep trying!
Hey, I appreciate the comment a lot! Having military is awesome and I know a lot of people that came from military and transition into the same jobs I’ve worked. I’m not sure how familiar you are with veterans preference for the feds and most state/county stuff but it’s super helpful. I’m not 100% sure how things near you are but near me if you’re looking for fire jobs even structure fire departments usually gives a +10 point veterans preference on a 100 point assessment (allowing vets to get up to 110 points). NPS doesn’t have the best hiring event pages for fed work but FS has a really good one and BLM(just job opening volume and predictability) has good programs to look into. Most everywhere I’ve worked with field work military experience is a major advantage and viewed really well. But definitely if you’re in Cali and did the Dixie fire a ton of state and county opportunities on the west side. I hope something here is helpful!
@@ecologystorymode thank you so much man! I have been on USA jobs for a while and have been talking with Mt. Adams institute for their vet program so I can build even more experience and have a better background. I am close to finishing my botany degree and hope that helps me a bit more, the videos are super helpful and really inspirational dude! Keep up the good work man and I’ll definitely be using all the info you gave me now and in all your future videos.
When you say no degree, what exactly do you mean? I have a degree, but it’s not relevant to anything to do with the national park service.
Would like to become a park ranger that deals with the law enforcement side of things within the park working for NPS. How do I go about that? Struggling to find information on how I do that. And side note, I’m 33 so I realize it’s a late start but I still want to aim for the job. Any advice I would be grateful for! Thanks!
is that a dreamcast on that shelf ??
Looking for a job with no degree working more closely with wildlife and animals. Any advice?
Hey there I appreciate the comment, and working with wildlife and animals without a degree can come in a lot of different forms. The first couple of ways that I’d approach it is being realistic about the scope of work you’d do working with animals and that could even help you narrow down jobs to search for. The second thing would be to learn about what’s around you(or where you’d want to live) to look for employers. If you live in a city or more suburban area working with animals will probably look more like working in shelters, wildlife refuges, zoos, or things of that nature (probably a ton more), if you’re in a more rural area or out west and live near a lot of public land then you get a lot more opportunities for working with wildlife start to pop up and it generally seems less hard because you’re around ag land or wilderness. Now a couple of my personal take things here are that working with wildlife happens outside and honestly majority of land management jobs either put you in direct work with wildlife or looking at wildlife habitat, super low bar to get into that. If that sounds like what you have in mind then conservation corps are a really easy way to try out the life or just get exposure to it. If you’re wanting to look around you then there’s a list of environmental jobs with no degree you can use on indeed and literally just punch those terms into your local area and see what’s there. Generally you’ll want to find tech jobs but there’s more things then that. Outside of that though if these don’t seem like you I’ve seen so many people get into work all sorts of ways, and more exposure and looking around at vids like this to get an idea the better. I have a friend I’m jealous of that did photography as a hobby with wildlife and now that’s his job just by being consistent for a long time and getting better. Kinda all over the place but I hope there’s something here that’s helpful!
Hey! Question: I’m looking into getting a career diploma in wildlife/forestry conservation but mostly just want to work with animals. Do you know what kind of jobs I could do with that diploma? Maybe like a wildlife rehabilitation center or would I need a higher degree for anything like that
Hey, so a lot of working with wildlife from my experience (never directly specialized in it only doing occasional surveys here and there) has to do with what you're actually around and the opportunities can look CRAZY different based on geography. If you want to live in a more urban area and work there then probably traveling out to something more habitat sanctuary or rehab is more realistic; also, there's obviously going to be academic programs and zoo type work. Outside of that, the side of the US you're on is going to make a large difference. If you're in the middle to west where public land is mostly feds and extremely dominant then answers get a lot straight forward because feds have a consistent (kinda) hiring process and requirements for each part of land that they help manage which leads to in areas an abundance of jobs for how many apply (generally pretty remote areas feel like this). Outside of that I think of the biggest component being what education you need which honestly can change so much from what you need state to state. Some places won't ask for a high school diploma for the same job that others want a full on college degree (I feel this is usually based on larger applicant pools just anecdotally). Generally a way to approach it is that a lot of parts of wildlife can be handled from a tech, or generally non degree/ limited education background. This can be anywhere from animal sanctuaries, to wildlife monitoring in a lot of places and cases, to physically working with animals. A lot of education happens on the job because of how specialized a lot of programs are. A degree of any sort probably won't ever hurt your chances here and probably help in almost every cases (I lived near a really rural wildlife sanctuary where that might be the opposite haha). If you want to be more involve with management or writing plans of some sort, there are standards that are set, especially on any state/ federal land. If that's the kind of work you want to do, I'd highly suggest looking up "wildlife jobs" or something on your state or fed, or even NGO website you might be interested in to see what they want and have that guide your choices for schooling. Outside of that, which is all really just some context to describe where you might want to live and do, the biggest advice I'd give is get some hands on experience, because that's what most people are missing in the early job hunts and I personally think it allows for easier time deciding what you like to do. This might seem hard (felt impossible to me) but I made a "how to become a forester" video that kinda can answer some of the early job search questions for this and the forestry half of your question. I would also just add my personal tidbit here. I haven't used a lot of these clips in my edit, but by working as a streams tech a few years ago for a summer season in the great basin I was able to really spend a lot of time around animals (almost never directly interacting) and helping improve their habitat and it was my first time biting the bullet for what I wanted and being in the middle of nowhere wilderness and doing science (which was kind of what I dreamed of). While my job was riparian I was floored by how much wildlife I saw, and MEGAFAUNA, in their natural habitat every day. When I hiked through sage steppes, I would see wild horses, elk, antelope, deer everywhere. Even more surprisingly, and terrifyingly to me, I saw the occasional bear and mountain lion (as well as the daily few coyotes up close haha) and gained a respect for how beautiful they were in their natural environment only occasionally even being curious of me which added a depth to how I view wildlife without my job title directly being with them.... not sure if that's helpful at all. Know this is a lot and all over the place, hope it's helpful and GOOD LUCK!
@@ecologystorymode Thank you so much for the reply :) it helped a lot ! I’ll definitely need to think more and research what opportunities are around me. May even have to relocate as some place else would probably have better job opportunities than western Nebraska lol. Around here all I’d ever run into would be mountain lions which would be terrifying as you said lol.
I’ll be moving to the USA from South Africa and have a green card, and it seems like all the jobs require you to be a US Citizen/National. Do you know of anything else I could look at?
www.usajobs.gov/help/working-in-government/non-citizens/ here's a link that might help qualify. I currently work with people from outside of the US but I know that it is very difficult compared to a citizen. I would generally say though if you are moving into here a lot of the key terms from this video might help you find stuff you're interested in. On public land and in private areas ranging from urban settings to a random forest a lot of these positions are still required and a lot of the job terms can he useful. In the NPS they call a lot of stuff rangers as well as a lot of other agencies use that as almost a catchall in a lot of scenarios. Stuff that is very similar in scope to jobs in this video would be looking up public lands, caves, parks, or whatever else to see about guide jobs and other recreation jobs (I was a camp counselor for a couple years, not everyone's cup of tea haha). As well as there is always use for arborists, and if you know where you're moving you can look up the public parks near you and see about maintenance because those jobs will generally spend their days working on public land. Not sure if this is what you're looking for, just a perspective haha.
Can you join at 17??
So I don't know about specific job stuff with under 18s, you could check out some postings but I don't think so. A couple options to help you get started though are looking at the NPS Under 18 volunteer program which can help with getting hired as well as potential outside contractors near wherever you live that do conservation or educational work. Hope that helps!
@@ecologystorymode Yes it does thanks for the help so when you do get a job do they fly you out or something like that?
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