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Here are some of our newly added jobs and internships from the SustainabilityForum.com this week:

1. UK: European Sustainability Advisor - Kimberly Clark
2. China: Social and Environmental Responsibility Specialist
3. US: Management Intern - Green Market Fundraising
4. CAN: Director Center for Environment & Sustainability - University of Western Ontario
5. UK: Senior Corporate Responsibility Consultant

Please visit http://www.sustainabilityforum.com/forum/job-offers-internships/ for the complete list of current job and internships offers.

It is that time again to get into the discussion of terminology in the corporate responsibility world.

The term “business sustainability” is now being mentioned more and more often in articles and publications.

One recent example of many: http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?contentid=5895 (Nothing against the interview, I totally agree with what she is saying)

Why should that interest us?

Well because these people that mention business sustainability are basically saying that the term Corporate Responsibility or even Corporate Social Responsibility is should not be used anymore when it comes to describe the roles and responsibilities of companies towards the environment and its stakeholders enlarge. Maybe it is not fashionable anymore?

In any case: The new term is “Business Sustainability” from now on they say.

Well again, dear experts, thank you very much for wasting our time. Please do not start another discussion on terminology but just help us change the way companies go about their business. Please let us all speak one language and not water down what the Corporate Responsibility movement has achieved over the course of the last 15 years.

It is vital now to show everyone that is willing to listen to what the Corporate Responsibility professionals have to say that WE CAN make a difference and change the world for the better. Corporate Responsibility might not be the ultimate tool to how to but it is surely one of many. And one more tool is better then nothing.

So let’s get to it and not argue about definitions, please.

All the best,

Fabian

Here are the top 5 news stories of the past weekfrom CorporateResponsibility.Net, our CSR partner website :

1) Blogs turn up heat on greenwash

2) Credit crunch savings help business go green

3) Advertising Watchdog Sees Big Jump In Green Ad Complaints

4) Berlin to reward good businesses

5) Big differences in perceptions of the success of corporate social responsibility efforts

Please visit http://www.corporateresponsibility.net for all other news items.

All the best,

Fabian

As always at the end of the week. Here are the 5 top jobs and internship offers posted on the SustainabilityForum.com:

1. UK: Senior CSR Consultant
2. UK: Internship – Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
3. UK: Sustainability Officer - St.Albans Council
4. US: Director of Community Relations at McKesson
5. UK: Sustainability Consultants, Birmingham

Please visit the Job & and Internship forum for the complete list of current job and internships offers.

Fabian

This is a follow up post to the one I wrote several months ago on the 5 top Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) News websites. This time I am not writing about the news websites but good CSR newsletter websites which not every news website has unfortunately..

So here are the top five CSR Newsletter websites:

1. MallenBaker.net – Great newsletter with a personal touch from a leader in the field
2. Ethical Performance - Newsletter with many topical CSR areas
3. CC Briefing - Selected news on CSR
4. Business Ethics Magazine - Special focus on business ethics (obviously)
5. CorporateResponsibility.Net – Hand picked news articles from all interesting CSR news websites (I started this last week)

All the best,
Fabian

These are this weeks top 5 jobs posted on SustainabilityForum, our partner website.

1. UK: Sustainability Reporting Manager
2. UK: Senior Sustainability Consultant
3. UK: 2 jobs at Ethical Consumer Magazine
4. US: Environmental Protection Specialist, ENERGY STAR
5. UK (London) Internship at Social Business VC and Research Company

Please visit http://www.sustainabilityforum.com/forum/job-offers-internships/ for the complete list of current job and internships offers.

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I know that I have been writing a lot around how to find a job in the sustainability field lately. But I got a lot of emails asking me how to find a job in the Sustainability field and where to post the CV/Resume for potential employers to see it.
So as a consequence I created the so called “Post your CV/Resume Forum” on our partner website SustainabilityForum.com.

The CV/Resume Forum is a place for everyone to

1. upload their CV/Resume if you are openly looking for a job and
2. for employers to browse the already uploaded CV/Resumes for a possible candidate for a particular vacancy you want to fill.

Have a look and why not post your CV there where a potential employer can see it?

The CV/Resume Forum

Regards,
Fabian

Dear readers,

these jobs here are five of many jobs all related to sustainability posted this week on the SustainabilityForum.com, a partner website of SustainabilityBlog.org.

The top 5 jobs this week are:

1. UK: Group Sustainability & Reporting Manager - Vodafone
2. US: CSR Analyst (New York, NY) - Intertek
3. UK: Sustainable Housing Consultants
4. UK: Sustainability Consultant
5. US: Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility - Campbell Soups Company

Please visit the SustainabilityForum.com for the complete list of current vacancies.

All the best,

Fabian

I guess some of you know what sustainability reports are. I previously wrote a post about the topic if you want to know more about sustainability reports.

Following up on this post I looked at some of the most interesting sustainability reports of the previous year. These reports include reports that are not called sustainability reports but rather CSR reports, Corporate Responsibility reports or Corporate Citizenship reports. I have tried to judge them on these factors. 1) Readability, 2) useful and relevant content, 3) stakeholder engagement approach, 4) amount of advertising to promote this publication (the less the better) and some smaller factors I usually judge reports on.

These are my top 5 Sustainability Reports:

1. Novo Nordisk – A Danish pharmaceutical company
2. British Telecom (BT) – UK Telecom Company
3. Camelot Group – Runs the UK Lottery
4. Vodafone – Global Communications Company
5. Alliance Boots – UK phamaceutical retail company

The ones that particularly stand out are the first three in my opinion.

Do you agree? If not what report was really good?