Shorten the Path to Your Green Career: Find Your Green Niche

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Shorten the Path to Your Green Career Find
Your Green Niche

• Carol McClelland, PhD
• GreenCareerCentral.com

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The Green Economy
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How Will You Ever Decide?
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The Key Finding Your Green Niche

• Your green niche is the part of the green
  economy that allows you to flourish.

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When You Know Your NicheYour Direction Is Clear

• You Know
• What to read
• What to learn
• Where to network
• Who to talk to
• What problems you solve
• What companies to target
• What jobs to pursue

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Having a Green Niche Shortens Your Path to Your
Green Career

• You Dont
• Waste time wondering
• Get sidetracked
• Get lost in exploration
• You Do
• Stay focused
• Act on opportunities
• Get results

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A Dose of Reality

• Exploring your options takes time
• Be proactive
• Not an instantaneous process
• Its a journey

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A Message for Job Seekers

• If you need a job now
• Focus on getting a job
• Whatever color it isgreen, blue, or purple.
• With income coming in, youll have energy to
  identify your green niche.

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Going on a Treasure Hunt

• Logical Clues
• Education
• Experience
• Skills
• Wildcard Clues
• Childhood dreams
• Current passions
• Future forecasts

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Knowing What Clues to Capture

• How do you feel when you are intrigued or
  excited?
• Go toward this feeling
• How do you feel when you are repelled?
• Move away from this feeling!!

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Where to Find Your Clues

• Definition of green job
• List of green industries
• Search for green topics
• Local green economy
• Work setting and work style
• See handout

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White House Definition of a Green Job

• Green jobs are jobs that provide products and
  services that
• Use renewable energy resources
• Reduce pollution
• Conserve energy and natural resources
• Reconstitute waste

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Green Goals with a Direct Impact on the Planet

• Generate renewable energy
• Decrease use of hazardous waste
• Promote biodiversity
• Restore ecosystems
• Remediate land

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Green Goals with an Indirect Impact on the Planet

• Educate and inspire
• Motivate and persuade
• Provide green services
• Invest, secure funding
• Set policy, regulate, advocate
• Consult on sustainable practices

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Green Industries Part 1
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Green Industries Part 2
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Search for Intriguing Green Topics

• Notice Are Drawn to What You
• Read
• Discuss
• Explore
• Debate
• Surf
• Research
• Hear

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Keep Looking for Clues
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Dive in to Explore Your Green Niche

• Identify your top two industries
• Explore the industries online to learn the basics
• Talk with people in the field to learn more
• Test the waters

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How to Test Your Readiness to Start Your Job
Search?

• How do you describe about your green career
  goals?
• Are you concise?
• Confident?
• Enthusiastic?
• When you are,
• you are ready!

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When You Feel Stuckand You Will
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Dont Just Sit There
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Dont Hold Back
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Be Ready to Leap, When the Time is Right