Countryside Jobs Service
29 Jan 2026
Worrying times for the countryside, conservation sector
Job numbers continue to fall and recruitment stutters. 2025 saw a fall in the number of people on payrolls and the estimated number of vacancies in the UK also fell. Obviously...
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24 Feb 2025
RSN Member Countryside Jobs Service Introduces ‘Featured Weeks’ Initiative
RSN member Countryside Jobs Service (CJS) is pleased to announce the launch of “CJS Featured Weeks,” starting with an event aligned with National Careers Week from 3-9 March. This initiative...
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20 Jan 2025
Want to be part of the last ever CJS Focus on Volunteering?
The first edition of CJS Focus was published as a Special Edition supplement on 21 February 2005. After 20 years CJS has decided to retire the format and the February...
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23 Oct 2024
CJS Focus on Forestry and Arboriculture
“It is widely acknowledged that as the Forestry and Arb sectors continue to grow, we are facing challenges finding people with the right skills and experience to fill these vacancies”,...
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26 Jul 2024
Showcase what you do in photos
In celebration of CJS 30th anniversary we are running a photo competition and we want your photos of you at work. There are prizes up for grabs and obviously the...
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01 May 2024
From A4 to For All – 30 years of the Countryside Jobs Service
By Kerryn Humphreys, CJS In July 1994 small envelopes started landing on the doormats of countryside rangers, inside were a couple of sheets of closely typed A4 containing details of...
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28 Jul 2023
Focus on Land & Habitat Management
CJS has recently produced a publication on Land and Habitat management in association with the Landscape Institute. It includes 7 articles, 5 job profiles, including more opportunities to train, work...
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27 Jul 2022
A one stop shop for countryside jobs
Nine miles inland from Whitby in the middle of the North York Moors National Park is the small honeypot village of Goathland. It’s here that you’ll find CJS CJS –...
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