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3-Explore Possibilities
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Step 3: Explore Possibilities
In the previous activity you identified a couple of viable green niches for yourself. Now it's time to move on to investigate your options. In this career step, you'll discover effective ways to verify that your green career is what you think it is and that it will be a good fit for you and your life. The articles below show you how to use the following resources to explore your green career options:
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Step 3A: Explore Possibilities
As a result of Step 1: Identify Green Niche and Step 2: Define Work Setting, you have two or three career ideas that intrigue you. Although it may be tempting to jump into action to figure ou . . . more
Step 3B: Strategies to Keep Your Focus While You Explore
Exploring the possibilities ahead is both exciting and a little scary. We invite you to use the following strategies to stay focused on the task at hand...and not get derailed into feeling overwhelmed. . . . more
Step 3C: Six Creative Ways to Explore Your Career Ideas Online
Exploring your career ideas online can be a little intimidating, after all the World Wide Web is a very big place! Given that your career idea is likely to be non-traditional or on the cutting edge, you probably won't be able to locate your career idea on the standard career research sites. Not to worry, we've created a list of creative ways you can search for information about your career ideas online. . . . more
Step 3D: Focus Your Informational Interviews Questions
To make the most of your informational interviews, take some time to plan your focus. . . . more
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Primer on Wikipedia
Lauren Delp
What Wikipedia Is Wikipedia is a multilingual, online, dynamic encyclopedia. It's dynamic because every minute, thousands of volunteer authors and editors add and change any number . . . more
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Asking the Right Question
Lauren Delp
The question(s) you start with will be the foundation of your research project. Get it right, and things will flow. Get it wrong, and you'll find yourself exhausted and frustrated, not sure i . . . more
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Here's what our members and subscribers are saying ...
"Green Career Central's process was incredibly helpful in getting me started in a new career direction. The worksheets and brainstorming exercises in the What's Your Green Niche ebook 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.
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Kelly Fergusson
Menlo Park, CA
Menlo Park Council Member (Mayor, 2007) turned Business Development Manager of Energy & Environmental Solutions
"I've got my green niche! The brainstorming sessions are a great tool for capturing my random thoughts and actually organizing them into cohesive career paths. Amazing! Thank you Carol!
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Taj
Oakland, CA
Green Career Changer
"Hi Carol, I love your Green Career Central website and deeply thank you for making the trial membership available. This is likely the only site of its kind on the Internet. A lot of thought and care have been put into it. Thanks to the exercises in Step 1, I'm finally able to articulate what I'm passionate about and how I want to use my passion in the world. Thank you so much."
Alice
San Ramon, CA
Green Career Changer
"Thanks for hosting the Plug into the Green Economy teleconference tonight. It was very informative, encouraging, and helpful. Thanks again for your site, your awesome service, and your sage advice!"
Paul
Santa Cruz, CA
Green Career Changer
"Thank you again for the Seasons of Change and your online system. They were so helpful to me. Learning to strengthen my HeartMagnet enabled me to listen and trust my heart wisdom. The journey has been so joyful because I trust myself so much more than before. There are new surprises around every corner that guide me toward my new future."
Michele
Redwood City, CA
Dental Hygienist turned Integrative Health Consultant
"Carol, thanks for your first Tip of the Week. Connecting with what I'm drawn to brought tears to my eyes and made me feel happy and excited. I now know what I'm looking for in my green career. I will continue to look to you and yours for support as I make my way forward. Thank you."
Cheryl
Chicago, IL
Green Career Changer
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