The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is currently conducting an inquiry into the prospects for green jobs and policies aimed at increasing employment in environmental industries. It will consider how the UK can maximise the environmentally positive opportunities arising from changes in public spending and how this might help with employment during the recession. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Green Jobs’ Category
400,000 Environmental jobs 2015
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Are we facing a green skills shortage?
Thursday, July 30th, 2009The latest energy and climate change white paper from the UK government pushes a green energy revolution which would see 40% of the UK’s energy generated from renewable energy sources by 2020, creating 1.2m new green jobs. (more…)
Green job heresy?
Monday, July 20th, 2009The green job frenzy of job seekers, web sites, recruiters, etc. isn’t helping us make major progress on sustainability. The two things that strike me are that people want green jobs, but haven’t determined the personal and professional development required to qualify for green jobs. Second, the green job frenzy seems to set us up to think that green or sustainability jobs are separate, when every job and every employee needs to apply sustainability concepts to their current jobs and businesses. From all the sustainability case studies, sustainability progress is a journey that involves learning and application at all levels, i.e., integration of sustainability in the way we do all jobs and business processes. With a basic foundation in sustainability, employees applying sustainability in their day jobs within their companies will bring more progress toward sustainable business and living than green jobs themselves. (more…)
Green job board league table - July 2009
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009July’s green job board league table is published below. There has been lots of movement this month with some sites making some impressive gains and some which have seen their job seeker numbers fall.
A number of additional sites which were highlighted following the publication of June’s table have been included this month following a review. (more…)
Renewable energy people moves - June
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009US
Signet Solar, the global manufacturer of thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules, announced a key addition to its executive team this month with the appointment of Bruce Horn as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Horn will oversee Signet’s financial development and offer strategic support as the company scales its manufacturing capabilities. (more…)
The first Global Carbon Salary Survey
Thursday, June 11th, 2009This month Acre Resources, Acona and Thomson Reuters published the first Global Carbon Salary Survey with interesting results. The Carbon Salary Survey came about as a natural follow on from the CSR Salary Survey that we have been undertaking for the past two years*. The idea behind the survey gathered pace once we realised that no research into climate change and carbon salaries on a global scale had taken place before. Obviously we needed a global media partner which is where Thompson Reuters came in. Partnering with them enabled the survey to be promoted across their Global Carbon Community which, given the nature of the survey, was an excellent way to promote and gain respondents for the study. (more…)
More than cleantech, green, renewable energy jobs!
Thursday, June 4th, 2009At the Green Cities Florida Conference last week, a 21 year old Finance Major asked how to get a green job when he graduated. He really didn’t know what sustainability was and hadn’t read anything on climate change, sustainability, etc. Our advice to him was: (more…)
Another way to a green job
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Recently, I came across NET IMPACT (netimpact.org). I was blown away by their vision, their network, their tools and best practices, and that they involve student members and professional members. As many of you have heard, one of the ways to a green job is through volunteering. However, it can be hard to find volunteer opportunities that can impact climate change or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels in the community. Is I do, Net Impact believes in the power of business and its employees. (more…)
How to break in to cleantech
Monday, May 25th, 2009There are a many managers and executives keen to break into the cleantech sector but who simply don’t know how.
There is a definite (and often correct) assumption that there are barriers to entry for someone without direct experience within the energy or related industry sectors. Unless you have a technical background there are also fewer jobs on offer and so the task of breaking into the sector can sometimes appear almost impossible. (more…)
People moves, renewable energy - May 2009
Thursday, May 21st, 2009UK
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…)
Dear job seeker…..
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Dear job seeker,
I have some good news and some bad news. If you are new to cleantech and are perhaps viewing it (quite rightly) as one of the few areas of the economy that is doing (relatively) well then the good news is that cleantech is an industry and not a technology. What do I mean? As a colleague of mine, Hugh Parnell, put it, it’s not a technology, like biotechnology, but rather a collection of technologies. I would go further and say it’s an industry like, say, the car industry. In fact several clean technologies are being developed by the car industry, such as fuel cells and plug-in hybrids. So the good news is that cleantech is a very broad industry in which you can valuably exploit your existing skills. This is in fact the basis of the various ‘green-collar’ stimulus packages being deployed by governments around the World. (more…)
The rise and rise of green jobs
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009The phrase ‘green jobs’ is one that I have been careful to avoid over the past years. I always believed that it’s connotations were most closely aligned to activists and lobbying and wouldn’t wash with many of our commercial clients. However things have changed over the last 12 months and the green word is becoming accepted across the business world – as such we are learning to embrace the term.
It is now clear that the huge range of political, cultural and commercial drivers for the energy efficiency sector will lead to ‘green jobs’ taking up a much bigger proportion of the UK workforce. Much less clear is the definition of ‘green jobs’, and many seem confused about what the future of a ‘green collar’ workforce really looks like. (more…)
Announcement - Global Renewable Energy Recruitment Channel Survey & Global Renewable Energy Recruitment Awards
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Global 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…)
Green Job Board League Table
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009This 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…)
