The Fastest Path to Your Green Career
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Green Career Tip of the Week
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"If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to
go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up."
Norman Vincent Peale
As a Green Career Tip of the Week subscriber, you've made the decision that you want to work in the green economy in some way. The big question is, what steps do you take to get where you want to go? Read this week's newsletter for a plan you can use to guide your actions.
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Tip of the Week: The Fastest Path to Your Green Career
You've decided you want to find a way to work in the green / clean / sustainable economy.
The next step is to figure out how you are going to make that happen. Rather than thinking of your journey as one event, focus on the three phases that make up your journey.
Phase 1: Get Clear
The first key to speeding up your journey to your green career is pinpointing your green career focus early on.
When you know what you think you want, you have a clear starting point for your research in Phase 2. You know how to introduce yourself to networking contacts. You know which events are likely to pay off for you. You can research your best education options.
Bottom line:
If you are confused about your career options or if you have a general goal to work in a particular industry, you are going to struggle in Phase 2 as you prepare for your active search.
Phase 2: Prepare
The second key to moving toward your green career is to take some time to figure out how to articulate your career goal and your value.
Before you launch your job search you need to know several things:
- How your target green industry/function works
- Where your skills are of most value to employers
- How to describe your value in conversations and in writing
Taking the time to build a compelling introduction, develop a powerful bio/profile, and crafting a persuasive resume that are based on solid knowledge about your industry/function will pay off in numerous ways.
Bottom line:
I know you want to leap right into an active job search, but if you aren't properly and effectively prepared for conversations with key contacts and hiring managers, think of the impression you are leaving them with. It's not the best plan is it?
Phase 3: Launch Your Search
The third key to landing your green job is to approach your job search as you would an important project.
There are two parts to activating your job search:
- Refine the specifics of your target job based on the research you've done in Phase 2.
- Decide on the tactics you are going to use to move your job search forward systematically.
Bottom line:
Getting the job depends on persistently following clues and opportunities. It's not likely to happen overnight. Surround yourself with support systems so you keep moving toward the results you want to achieve.
Actions You Can Take
What phase of the green career journey are you in?
What's keeping you from moving to the next phase?
By understanding exactly where you are in the process you can determine where to spend your time. Moving through each of these phases, in order, will give you the most effective results.
Copyright 2011 Transition Dynamics Enterprises, Inc
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Did You Miss This
Special Opportunity
Last Week?
Are you hoping to find your place in the green economy in 2011?
Want help figuring out your strategy to reach your goal?
To celebrate the New Year, I'm offering a limited number of complimentary Green Career Strategy Sessions.
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What's New for Green Career Central Members
About Us
Green Career Central(TM) is an online coaching and resource center designed to help mid-career professionals, students, new grads, and career counselors make sense of the green economy and the green job market.
Carol McClelland, PhD, author of the award-winning, Green Careers For Dummies, is one of the nation's leading green career experts and founder of Green Career Central. Throughout her career, Carol has helped thousands of people find careers that match their values and interests.
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A Wonderful Opportunity for YOU!
With the new year upon us, we have several exciting new online coaching programs in the works to help you turn your green career idea into a paying position.
As noted above, there are two parts to every job search:
- Prepare for Your Search - Here you'll pull together the pieces you'll need in place to launch your job search: communication pieces (compelling introductions, a descriptive bio, and a persuasive resume) and the skills and know how to make the most of all of your networking connections and opportunities.
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Launch Your Active Job Search - Here you'll create your personalized job search plan and put it into action. The program will build in support, motivation, and accountability so you get the results you are looking for.
I'll have more details to share about my expert collaborators and the programs themselves in upcoming newsletters. For now I wanted to give you a heads up about a great opportunity for you!
To make these programs as effective as possible,
we are pulling together a group of participants to
provide us with feedback throughout the program.
If you'd like to be part of our R&D Team, please reply to this email.
We'll send you an email with more information as soon as it is available.
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Get Started with Your Green Career Journey
Are you passionate about finding a way to contribute to the emerging green economy?
- Not sure where to start?
- Unclear about what steps to take?
- Trying to figure out where your skills fit within the green economy?
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All Rights Reserved.
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Transition Dynamics Enterprises, Inc
PO Box 354, Menlo Park, CA 94026
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