Greenpeace Employer Reviews

This job was horrible. Everyone hates the people that try to get money on the streets for this or that cause especialy if they have to talk with them.
Management was good and supportive.

They allowed for expression of ideas and the ability to be involved in environmental issues

Canvassing is a tough job, and it becomes ever tougher when talking about saving animals. This job is a manifestation of my values as far as compassion, knowledge, and self-evaluation go. At the same time, scheduling around my education became a difficult task while employed. From 11-5, everyday I would meet at a site to start canvassing for the environment. – more... The constant rejection was a great way to create new challenges. I learned a lot of environmental fact, I would have otherwise stayed ignorant about. – less

Interact with people standing on the street to promote our campaign as well as raising fund.
Situation handling diplomatically.
Good working environment as well as friendly co-workers.
Interact with unknown person to make him a financial supporter within few minutes is most hardest part of the job.
Most enjoyable part is also interact with unknown person – more... and learn lots of thing from them. – less

Working for Greenpeace was on a typical day a really fun place to work. I enjoyed very much talking to the public about issues that really mattered to me and world. Just knowing that i was working for something that was bigger than me made the job one of the best that i have ever had.
I learned a lot about the environment and myself along with the general – more... public. Not only but i also learned how to work in teams and not just by myself. We had to be there to support each other in this job.
All my coworkers were great and all around my same age and and i enjoyed very much meeting up with them and doing warmups to get going for the day.
I would say the hardest part of this job was dealing with people that were rude to you on the street. Or having a day were no one would stop to at least here your pitch and the information that i was trying to get out there. Grassroots campaigning can be a really hard job. Especially if you meet people that don't agree with your cause.
The best part of the job though was talking to people, giving out information and putting smiles on people faces as you inspired them to get more involved with the world around them. – less

I have learned things like how to manage database of potential companies for outreach event.

Relationship building with corporates
Managing a team
Writing effective proposal letters for conducting outreach events.
Data analysis.
Using different multimedia software to prepare mailers.

Typical day involves approaching members of the public throughout the South West, building rapport and conveying the ethos of Greenpeace encouraging monthly subscriptions to the organisation.

During my employment I developed fantastic communication/interpersonal skills and also sales techniques.

Management and co-workers were always positive and supportive.

Hardest – more... part of the job was when the weather was bad and you had to be very driven and determined to meet the sales targets as bad weather inevitably meant less people would give up their time.

The most enjoyable part of the job was meeting all the wonderful people and inspiring them to donate to such a wonderful organisation. – less

We would meet up at a Traders Joe or a place that supported commecial fishing. so basically we would approch random people and ask them if they want to become apart of the movement of saving the oceans and the rain forest. We never took cash we only took crdit cards and if a person was to decide to become a member of the non profit organization they – more... would have to give a monthly contribution of 15-150 a month its their option. the hardest part of the job was persuading people to become apart of a movement that everyone knew about but wasnt that concerned about. i enjoyed signing new memmbers and learning more about the deep sea fishing that is going on in our oceans today as well as what is going on in our rain forest. – less

Siempre anhele trabajar en la ON'G mi mas grande meta en la vida es convertirme en reportera de la naturaleza o cultural, me encanto formar parte de la organizacion por su mision y vision, no me da miedo ir al africa para hacer un reportaje de alguna tribu o alguna especie y pasar meses sin regadera o television de paga. Soy muy osada yaventada

Prata med människor i största allmänhet om olika typer av miljöproblem. Lärde mig hur man på bästa sätt kan prata och övertyga människor samt mycket om natur och miljö i allmänhet. Vädret var den svåraste delen av jobbet. Var det en solig dag så var det betydligt fler som var på gott humör och på så vis kunde man stanna dom däremot om det var en regnig – more... dag så fick man helt enkelt hitta ett annat sätt att tala med folk, ta med sig ett paraply t.ex. Som värvare får man ta mycket kritik ifrån de personer som kan ha haft en dålig dag eller lever ett stressigt liv men man får lära sig att inte ta det personligt. Att vara ute i friska luften, prata med människor som har goda värderingar samt de jag jobbade med var fantastiska. – less