Archive for the Career Tips & Resources Category

“Careers in Wind” Summit – May 22

This event might be of interest to job seekers: WINDPOWER 2011 “Careers in Wind” Summit, Sunday, May 22, Anaheim, CA


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Upcoming conference: Green:Net

Looks like a great speaker lineup at this conference, for anyone interested in tech & sustainability: Green:Net 2011 Conference, April 21, 2011, San Francisco


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“More than Money” career counseling

For anyone who’d like help figuring out how best to match their values with their career options, here are two opportunities for career counseling with my friend and excellent colleague Mrim Boutla.  Mrim is a wealth of information and has several concrete frameworks for helping MBAs and other students map out their passions, values, and [...]


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Hours of free sustainability career advice

If you haven’t found them yet (and they are hard to find), there are videos of some terrific talks on the topic of sustainability careers/professional development from the 2010 Net Impact Conference.  Here are some of the career-oriented video links: Work for Good: Making an Impact with Any Job Title – Sarah Endline, Aron Nussbaum, [...]


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Watch Nike, Coca-Cola executives discuss sustainability

On Feb. 9, Duke will host its annual Conference on Sustainable Business & Social Impact, and the two plenary sessions will be broadcast live via Ustream.  The audience is mostly students, and careers are sure to be a topic of conversation. Feb. 9, 9:00-10:00am EST:  A Conversation with Hannah Jones, VP of Sustainable Business and Innovation [...]


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Sustainability Interviews? Here’s How to Prepare

Reprinted, with permission, from my guest post at Courting your Career. Applying for a sustainability job or internship?  Here are three questions you need to be ready to address. 1) “What got you interested in sustainability?” It’s useful to have an origin story that is highly personal and possibly even emotional (for example: “I grew up [...]


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Resource: 51 Great Sites for CSR and Sustainability

This list compiled by Chris Jarvis on the Fast Company blog site is a year and a half old now, but still a terrific resource: 51 Great Sites for Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability


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Top 10 Green Business Job Search Resources

Reprinted from my Career Rocketeer article in 2010, here are my ten favorite green business job search resources: 1. Net Impact (www.netimpact.org). Any professional interested in sustainable business should join the global Net Impact organization as a full member. Members have access to a job board focused exclusively on social and environmental impact careers, as [...]


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Welcome to Profession & Purpose

Welcome! When I wrote Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability in 2009, I compiled every valuable sustainability career resources I could find. But, websites are always changing and new resources are emerging every day. This blog will supplement Profession and Purpose with new sustainability career search tips, websites, books and [...]


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