Posts Tagged career advice

“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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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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