Sustainability initiatives require a unique combination of collaborative leadership, creative thought, science, and just plain experiential grit to implement. Certain circumstances may require a background in a particular industry such as facilities management, food service, manufacturing, biotechnology or software. Hiring sustainability professionals ensures you bring in the expertise needed to navigate complex challenges and achieve meaningful progress. Finding the right person to drive your sustainability initiatives can often seem like finding a unicorn.
There are the usual platforms for listing employment opportunities such as Indeed or LinkedIn as well as your own website. However, there are some platforms that work better for sustainability professionals. Newer or smaller companies and organizations may want to go after entry level job seekers that are willing to grow their career with your company or org. Target the career centers of the higher education institutions with the top Sustainability programs near you. Many of these learning institutions use Handshake and, for a small fee, you can post jobs that current and former students will see. Use hubs where sustainability professionals get information, like Trellis, or Green Jobs Network, or sustainability-focused job boards. Sometimes you can get them to post the opportunity for free or for a small fee. While LinkedIn isn’t the best at providing a relevant candidate pool, posting the job there and having your employees and colleagues promote it through their own professional pools can often be helpful.
At EI, we’ve often thought that we couldn’t find a sustainability professional with one foot in the door in another specialty, such as data and technology or community engagement and equity. We almost felt that we manifested our talent just by creating the job description of the dream fit. And yet we’ve done it time and again. Hiring sustainability professionals with the right blend of skills is what we do best.
Environmental Innovations partnered with several organizations to form the Green Careers Partnership, a collaboration to retrain people into Green Careers and form lasting connections between employers and green training programs. Blair Mandell was key to putting hundreds of individuals back to work as well as strengthening local green businesses so that they may find the right talent and be lasting employers in their communities. Blair has spent the last 18 years building out talent for both large and startup technologies that make a positive impact in our world from renewable energy, advanced lidar products, robotic startups, medical devices and climate change advancements. Blair loves to ramp hyper growth companies and was responsible for expanding Tesla’s Energy Solar division and built out their megawatt and gigawatt factories. Blair’s passion is taking new technologies and building out the teams that will make a difference in our environment, including clean energy and improving our planet. Blair can help you find the best fit for your company.
Contact us if you’d like assistance finding the best fit sustainability professional for your company.