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CSRJobsReport 2007 : In partnership with Net Impact, an analysis of 1255 CSR jobs over 3.5yrs

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1. Growth in CSR jobs overall: CSR positions have increased on average 37% per year over the past 3.5 years. In 2004 there were 19 postings per month while in 2007 there were 48 postings per month. 
2. CSR largely outsourced:  All of the 1255 postings were separated into 3 categories: 1) Internal (25%)- working on CSR in their own company, 2) Services (41%)- providing consulting or third party compliance support to companies and 3) Independent (34%) - working in an independent capacity to research, monitor or support CSR.  We could not obtain information on how many positions are filled from within a company to know total number of Internal positions, however the implication here is that there are more CSR service (consulting and compliance) positions than internal CSR positions.
3. Multinationals hire for compliance in the apparel industry: Of the 317 positions posted by multinational companies 25% were compliance related. 19% were CSR in general. 15% were comm uni ty focused and 13% were focused on the environment.  The apparel and consumer products industries were the top employers with 25% and 22% positions respectively.
4. Top employers were Business in the Comm uni ty and Business for Social Responsibility:  The top CSR employers overall were two leading CSR membership associations in the UK and US respectively, Business in the Comm uni ty based in London with 86 postings and Business for Social Responsibility based in San Francisco with 53 postings.  These organizations are in direct competition with the consulting firms. In third place is Cal Safety Compliance Corporation with 26 positions.  These top three employers are all in the Service category.  The top 3 companies to hire are Disney in Burbank , CA at 23 postings, Nike in Beaverton , OR at 15 postings, and Starbucks in Seattle , WA at 14 postings.
5. Average disclosed annual salary was $67,000:  Of the 1255 postings, 216 disclosed salary information.  The average disclosed salary was $67,000 with most of those jobs based in London .

 

Previous newsletters:

March 2006 - Research of 2yrs of CSR job listings

October 2005 - on boutique consulting

June 2005 - analyzing 457 social responsibility job listings

October 2004 - reflection on a competency framework

July 2004 - analyzing job listings

 

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