Introduction
Globalisation
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Multi-National Corporations

Did Mrs Thatcher kill youthful idealism? Well whether she is guilty of this or not, she certainly changed the character of the country and many of you will be money grabbing little b******* who think of no-one but themselves and mistake the idea of ‘value’ for ‘money’. Worth reading the book Dark Heart by Nick Davies is if you’re truly avaricious and materialistic...

But anyhoo...in the real world, some of you will work for big companies and earn lots of money and this section has information on a variety of companies. For information on other companies (including those who the research assistant for this project considered too morally reprehensible to include) you should try the website of the International Chamber of Commerce which has links to the websites of many of its members. (www.iccwbo.org)

Companies

Ernst & Young
Have information on UK careers and vacancies. In addition, they have a global "Career Centre". 

Ericsson
Has a section dedicated to careers (including a search). Corporate information is also available.

IBM
Has a large job and careers section, including pages dedicated to recruitment of UK graduates Also of interest may be the UK careers Home page.

KLM
Information on jobs and careers.

Proctor & Gamble
This site covers jobs and careers with PG in western europe, including the UK.

Sony
Sony now has a dedicated global careers site and includes information about the Sony European graduate programme.

Thomas Cook
Iinformation on Jobs. There is recruitment information about Neilson, a subsidiary that deals with "active" holidays aimed more at young people.

Unilever
A new and improved site. Includes Company Information and Careers.

Volvo (The Volvo Group)
Careers and Corporate information available.
Volvo cars has a separate website. For jobs and career information, you now have to select the relevant country first, and then use the "About Us" section.

Outline
MNCs
Companies
Ethical

Ethical
Before you get too successful you might want to think about this. How much money can you earn and still have a clear conscience? This much?

But if you fancy doing something a bit more ethical, you could look at the NGO page...or here is some information on what might be described as more ethical companies...(how exactly we decide upon what is ethical is, however, subject to debate!)

You could try:

Allan Shepherd & Fiona Rowe, Sustainable Careers Handbook, Centre for Alternative Technology Publications, 2000 (tel 01654 702400)

Adams, Carruthers and Hamil, Changing Corporate Values - A Guide to Social and Environmental Policy in Britain's Top Companies, Kogan Page. May now be out of print.

Or the following:

www.ethicalexchange.co.uk
includes a directory of environmental organisations.

www.ethicalconsumer.org
Describes itself as the alternative consumer organisation, looking at social and environmental records of companies.

http://peopleandplanet.org/
A UK student campaigning organisation (formerly Third World First) which seems to have some useful links and is sometimes advertises some jobs within their own organisation.

www.greenguide.co.uk
Links to environmental organisations and businesses.

www.ibe.org.uk
Institute of Business Ethics, 12 Palace Street, London SW1E 5JA 020 7931 0495

http://www.accountability21.net/
Formerly known as the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability, AccountAbility is an organisation who conduct social reports and audits and so likely to be up to date on ethical companies and organisations.

www.impacttlimited.com
Impactt Limited are an organisation who work with companies to improve their practices in developing countries.

http://dmoz.org/Business/Investing/Socially_Responsible
Socially Responsible Investment

www.eiris.org
Ethical Investment Research Service

www.FTSE4good.com
New 'ethical market' launched in July 2001 by FTSE 100.

www.csreurope.org
To do with corporate social responsibility. Possible to search the databank for press articles, company reports, company links and organisation links etc. You need to register but free and painless to do so!

www.bitc.org.uk
Business in the Community - includes members' list.

www.icof.co.uk
Co-operative & Community Finance - " the lender for social purpose" (Formerly the Industrial Common Ownership Movement Limited).

Other suggestions include:

• Looking at sites for organisations such as Oxfam, Co-op
• Contacting organisations such as Co-op Research Unit (01908 653 054), Co-op College (01509 852333)
• Internet discussion group at Co-opnet@totalcoverage.co.uk
• BT Society and Environment - BT group "moving towards a better world".
• and of course looking at ethical investment sites and companies such as Standard Life and Co-op Bank.

And finally...

Café Direct UK recruitment page

Fair Trade foundation
UK volunteers and jobs page. This site seems unreliable

See also the NGO section of this site.