Tag: career-transitions
September 6, 2024
Green Careers – LinkedIn Profile & Elevator Pitch Workshop
Green Careers – LinkedIn Profile & Elevator Pitch Workshop
Join GreenHomeNYC Green Careers group in an IN-PERSON LinkedIn Profile & Elevator Pitch workshop! During timed sessions with green career professionals, you’ll receive constructive, personalized feedback on how to present your skills and experience so you take your professional networking to the next level!
We’ll kick off the workshop with a short presentation on best practices for building an impactful LinkedIn Profile and your own elevator pitch. Then attendees will be paired with different reviewers throughout the evening — think of it as speed dating but for professional development — where you’ll be able to review your LinkedIn profile and practice your personal elevator pitch.
Sign up today to secure your spot for the resume workshop. Limited tickets available.
Date: Tuesday, September 10th
Time: 6:15PM – 8:00PM
Location: Fujitsu AirStage, 1450 Broadway, 42nd floor, New York, NY 10018
For the Workshop, attendees should:
Make sure you have an up-to-date LinkedIn profile for review. Come prepared to do your elevator pitch and contribute to evaluating others. Be prompt! The event starts at 6:30 pm so be sure to arrive early!NOTE: Doors open at 6:15pm. To respect the time of our reviewers and guests, the workshop will begin promptly at 6:30pm. Networking Happy Hour after the event so please stick around! If you have any questions, please contact the GreenHomeNYC Green Careers group at [email protected].
April 9, 2023
Green Careers – Resume Workshop
Join GreenHomeNYC Careers group on April 11th for an IN-PERSON resume workshop. During timed sessions with green career professionals, you’ll receive constructive, personalized feedback on how to present your skills and experience so you get the attention of employers and land the job you want!
Resume reviewers with be paired with attendees throughout the evening–think of it as speed dating but for resume-reviewing.
Sign up today to secure your spot for the resume workshop. Limited spots available.
(more…)December 29, 2020
Job Market Outlook: Green Infrastructure, Sustainable Business, Circular Economy
By Pamela Berns In 2020, the triple bottom line—people, planet, profits—took on a whole new meaning. The number of lives lost to COVID-19 continues to grow into the new year. Environmental regulation rollbacks under the Trump administration and the US withdrawal from the Paris agreement put the planet on even greater climate risk trajectory than before. Job losses and business failures altered the economy in ways that economists say may take years to fix. According to Fast Company, as of May, 2020, 33 million Americans had filed for unemployment; while some jobs might come back, new ones will need to be created to replace those that didn’t survive. While, sadly, we will never recoup the lives lost and upended by the pandemic, there is a way forward toward a reciprocal recovery for all of the three Ps. “One of the best ways to add new jobs,” said Fast Company, is to “invest in green infrastructure.” (more…)November 26, 2020
GreenHomeNYC’s Pandemic Pivot Proves the Power of Commitment and Community
By Melanie Mason We have spent the better part of our year in throes of the COVID-19 pandemic—social distancing, Zooming, washing our hands like crazy, and carrying out GreenHomeNYC’s mission from the kitchen table. This has almost begun to feel like a normal part of our routines. But at the beginning of the lockdowns back in March, the challenges to life as usual suddenly felt very far from “normal.” Just like everyone else, GreenHomeNYC had to quickly adapt to this new way of being. A testimony to our incredibly driven volunteers, together we dove headfirst into tackling how GreenHomeNYC would go from a live and lively in-person community to operating fully remotely. Said GreenHomeNYC’s board president Lucie Dupas, “The board is so thankful for all the amazing work that our volunteers are able to get done safely from their homes—this year has been incredibly challenging in all aspects of life, and we are amazed on a daily basis by how passionate and resilient our whole community is!” (more…)August 1, 2020
Sustainability Goals Call For Ambitious Action
By Alexa Roccanova Though the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted business as usual, it has also heightened awareness of the fragile balance between nature and humanity. To some, the magnitude of the virus’s impact represents a culmination of enduring environmental, economic, and social issues. Sustainability presents a globally beneficial path forward; however, not unlike the pandemic, its extensive scope demands responses that both tackle and develop complex and interconnected systems. Public and private sectors are now seeing the COVID-19 economic recovery as an opportunity for an operational reset. Ambitious Actions Needed: Sustainable Development Goals The United Nations Sustainability Goals (SDGs) are helping both sectors to pursue environmental and humanitarian targets by providing a universal framework of seventeen integrated objectives needed to facilitate global environmental, social, and economic well-being by 2030.January 27, 2020
GreenHomeNYC Careers Recap: Careers in the New Green Economy — Government Edition
By Jonathan Oriondo On October 29th, GreenHomeNYC convened a panel discussion on sustainability careers in government, a field that promises change and growth in the new green economy. In New York in particular, breakthrough climate legislation is not just leading the way to a carbon neutral city; as our speakers demonstrated, it is also leading to innovative and meaningful careers. (more…)October 28, 2019
Green Careers September Recap: Careers Paths to Energy Efficient Buildings
By Elena Weissmann Photo by Alicja Osinska On September 10, 2019, the GreenHomeNYC community gathered at GROHE to learn from industry experts about jobs in the energy efficient buildings arena here in New York City. We were lucky to be joined by Elizabeth Taveras of the NYC Division of Energy Management (DEM), Daquan Dennis from the CUNY Building Performance Lab, and Mina Agarabi of Agarabi Engineering PLLC. Elizabeth, Daquan, and Mina gave participants a glimpse into a day in the life at their current workplaces, an understanding of the journeys that took them there, and advice on how participants might navigate their own journeys into this growing field. They also addressed the impact New York City’s new Local Law 97 will have on both careers and culture in the city’s buildings. (more…)July 31, 2019
Green Careers Recap: Career Opportunities in Waste Reduction and Management
By Tamanna Mohapatra Photo by Kenton Archer On July 9th, 2019, GreenHomeNYC hosted a panel discussion on careers in waste management. Our three panelists engaged the audience with inspiring stories about their career paths, and offered insights into this growing and varied field. They also shared great career tips with the diverse group of participants. (more…)May 9, 2019
Green Careers: Sustainable Career Tracks: Non-Profit Edition
Interested in the Sustainability Non-Profit Sector? Join us for a panel on Non-Profits!
When sustainability challenges fall outside the domain of market solutions, who is there to provide redress? Non-profits can satisfy energy and environmental problems of great import that financial interest may ignore. Come learn lessons from professionals experienced in navigating careers in the sustainability non-profit sector. Date: May 14th, 2019 Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm with networking afterwards Location: BrightPower, Flr 21, 11 Hanover Square, New York NY 10005 Speakers: Danielle Bissett – Billion Oyster Project Adam Romano – AEE Irene Nielson – NRDC Note: To respect the time of our speakers and guests, the event will start promptly at 6:30. Register Here!