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Global Wind Day - June 15th

Friday, June 12th, 2009

This coming Monday, June 15, people around the world will be celebrating Global Wind Day.

The Global Wind Energy Council thought up the idea to give people around the world an opportunity to show their support for wind energy, and to highlight wind power not only as a real solution to global climate change, but also to highlight the economic benefits of investment in wind power such as high quality green jobs. There will be thousands of simultaneous celebrations going on in more than 25 countries around the world. (more…)

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Green job board league table - June 2009

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Thank you for the great feedback following the publication of our first green job board league table in May. As promised here is June’s table.

Just as we did in May we have listed the top 35 green job boards using traffic data as provided by Alexa.

Job seeker traffic is the life blood of any job board in any sector. Beyond traffic it is then for employers and recruiters to make a judgement on the relevance of that traffic for their job vacancy, agency or business. (more…)

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People moves, renewable energy - May 2009

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

UK

Pannone the Manchester based law firm has strengthened its construction and projects team with the appointment of partner Simon Foy.

Foy has extensive experience in the energy, waste and PFI sectors and joins Pannone from Australian waste processing company Global Renewables where he was general counsel. He was in private practice at Simmons & Simmons and DLA Piper where he advised on many infrastructure, energy and PFI projects and was also the European legal director at US power company Edison Mission Energy.

US

Former Carter advisor, author and energy guru S. David Freeman will become the ‘Environmental Mayor’ of L.A.

Freeman helped shape the energy policy of the Carter era, and by funding the first wave of research into solar and wind technologies in the early 70’s helped to kick-start the renewable energy industry.

One of his first projects will be to revive a narrowly defeated solar energy plan for the city. Freeman is the man credited with putting solar panels on the White House. (more…)

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Announcement - Global Renewable Energy Recruitment Channel Survey & Global Renewable Energy Recruitment Awards

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Global Renewable Energy Recruitment Channel Survey

Renewable Energy Jobs is pleased to announce that it is launching the first Global Renewable Energy Recruitment Channel Survey. Our global survey will explore current and future trends in job seeker behaviour and analyse the effectiveness and popularity of various recruitment channels used across the renewable energy industry and around the world.

If you are currently involved directly within the industry please take part, it only takes 5 minutes.

Our results should benefit everyone involved in the industry, particularly both corporate and agency recruiters keen to ensure that they are utilising an effective mix of marketing resources, and projecting the right messages, enabling them to engage with job seekers on the right level.

We will be collecting data over the next three months and presenting our findings in September/October 2009. (more…)

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Green Job Board League Table

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

This blog is not due for launch until next week but I just couldn’t help myself!

I have had several conversations with recruiters and job seekers over the past week all looking for information on the performance of green job sites. There doesn’t seem to be much readily available information and so I thought I would pull some together in the form of a green job board league table.

The league table below is based on web traffic data provided by Alexa. For anyone who doesn’t know, Alexa collects traffic information on all website globally and ranks them from 1 to 25 million(ish), beyond about 25 million there isn’t enough traffic data for them to collate.

Traffic data is the best indicator of job seeker activity and therefore of a sites popularity (and potential value to recruiters).

For the purpose of this league table I have only included green job site, and energy sites where renewable energy makes up at least a significant percentage of their jobs, and therefore traffic. (more…)

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