About Us

Ethical Jobs, and all associated domains, is owned by Ethical Jobs Limited, a private limited company.

Registered Office: 2nd Floor, 145-157 St. John Street, London, EC1V 4PY, United Kingdom.   Company Number: 05809492

Overview

‘There is a massive range of opportunity in the ethical jobs market, from solar engineering to sustainable development and care work. Choosing an ethical career does not mean sacrificing a well paid and exciting position in the corporate sector for an underpaid, under appreciated one. It means doing something that serves our practical needs, our personal values and our interests in a way that positively impacts upon the world.

Jason Elliott, founder

Our Mission

Many people in conventional jobs and following mainstream career paths are getting increasing concerned about what the end result of their work actually is.  Who really benefits?  Who makes most of the money from their labours?  What happens to that money then?  What damage is done on the way, both to people and to the planet?

Our aims are twofold:

• To provide a broad selection of ethically sound jobs across a wide spectrum of sectors with hope of enticing those in mainstream career paths into more sustainable and conscience-driven employment by demonstrating that their skills and experience can be easily transferred.
• To accumulate a loyal following of socially, culturally and environmentally aware jobseekers so employers in the green and ethical sectors will be able to rely on our ability to fill their vacancies.

Our environmental impact

We are aware that there is always more we can do but we have taken a start in the following ways

• Our website is hosted with servers that run on 100% solar energy. (See www.ecologicalhosting.com for info).
• All office paper, what little that is, is recycled.
• We only buy fairtrade tea and coffee!
• The principal director, Jason Elliott, does not own a car.

Who can advertise their vacancies on this site or feature in our directory?

To advertise with us an organisation should fulfil the following criteria...

• They must maintain a responsible position regarding labour rights in their own operations and through their supply chains, particularly in developing countries.
• They must not discriminate in the workplace on the grounds of sex, race, disability or sexual orientation and should proactively work against any form of discrimination.
• They must support fairtrade.
• They must not engage in irresponsible marketing activities in developing countries.
• They must not be involved in the manufacture or transfer of arms.
• They must not be involved in any sort of animal testing of any kind whatsoever.
• They must not use any kind of intensive farming methods, eg., caged egg production.
• They must have no links with the fur trade.
• Their core activity must not contribute to global climate change by the extraction or production of fossil fuels.
• Their core activity must not contribute to the unsustainable harvesting of natural resources such as fish or timber.
• Their core activity must not be the manufacture of chemicals that are persistent in the atmosphere and are linked to long term health concerns.
• They must recycle as much of their waste as practical circumstances permit and not contribute to unsustainable waste management where reasonable alternatives exist.
• They must not be involved in tobacco manufacture, promotion or distribution.
• They must not be involved in large scale currency speculation.
• They must not be involved in the manufacture of genetically manufactured organisms.
• Wherever possible they must use electricity from renewable sources or request its provision from their energy supplier.

The only exception to these requirements is when organisations are recruiting staff in roles that work towards compliance with the above criteria.

Ethical Jobs reserves the right to review and actively monitor practices of organisations recruiting on this site and, if necessary, remove them.

Press releases (Word documents)

May 10th - Ethical Jobs launches a North American version for the USA and Canada

March 31st - Ethical Jobs switches its hosting to an entirely solar powered provider

March 25th 2006 - Ethical Jobs launches their green directory of ethical businesses and organisations

March 3rd 2006 - A new ethical jobs site aims to bridge the gap between mainstream career paths and the ethical sector