Tour: What's Your Green Focus?
Are you struggling to figure out where your skills fit in the green economy? You are not alone! This is one of the most difficult parts of finding your green career. Identifying the place in the green economy where you are perfectly suited to thrive based on your unique collection of skills, your interests, your talents, your education, your experience. When you discover your green niche in Step 3, you know where to focus your job search activities. When you can articulate your green niche clearly and confidently, your network is in a great position to help you find the resources, contacts, and job openings that fit your goals. If you want to save time, reduce your level of frustration, and get faster results with your job search, taking the time to identify your niche in the early stages of your job search leads to results! Read what two of our members have to say about how they identified their green niche, and how it helped in their job search.
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"Green Career Central's process was incredibly helpful in getting me started in a new career direction. The worksheets and brainstorming exercises helped me realize I already had the skills to launch a new green career. Today, less that four months later, I have a terrific salary doing business development for energy and environmental projects. Thanks to Green Career Central, my dream of merging my personal conviction with professional life came true."
Kelly Fergusson
Menlo Park Council Member (Mayor, 2007) turned
Business Development Manager of Energy & Environmental Solutions
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"Carol McClelland's What's Your Green Niche process was instrumental in helping me clarify and map out my career path during a time of great transition. Fully integrating my values into my career choice became especially important to me. The activities helped me look deeply at the places where I felt stuck, transform those blockages into action and optimism, and create a job search plan consistent with my values and long term goals."
Rose Marcario
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Patagonia
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