Interested in green careers where you’ll be changing the world for the better? Green Careers Week is a great time to start exploring options for your future!
What Are Green Careers And Skills?
Green careers are any jobs that help preserve or restore our environment and planet. And you don’t just have to work in ‘green industries’, you can find a green career role in any industry!
Green skills are all the abilities, attitudes, knowledge, and technical skills you can build and use in your role to support climate change.
1. Explore green jobs
Use the careers sector hubs to explore all the different kind of green jobs available to you. You can find them in all kinds of industries, and some good ones to explore are:
- Construction
- Energy, Water & Sustainability
- Engineering
- Environment, land and animals
- Health & Science
- Law
- STEM
- and transport and logistics…
2. Attend events
WorldSkills UK are holding a series of virtual careers sessions during Green Careers Week 2023 (6th – 11th November). The sessions will also include Q&A opportunities and interactive quizzes for students to collect interesting facts along the way.
You can explore:
- Low Carbon Energy And Green Apprenticeships: Green Careers With EDF Energy, 7th November
- Green Transformation And Careers In The Automotive Sector, 8th November
- Taking Green Global: Career Pathways With Air Products, 9th November
3. Explore employers with green careers
Green jobs are being created all the time, even ones that didn’t exist before. As you can find them in all kinds of industries, lots of different employers provide opportunities to get into green careers. Some examples of Youth Friendly Employers with green careers are:
Explore their early careers hubs to discover opportunities to build your skills and experience.
4. Build your skills
Many green jobs need expert technical skills gained from experience and qualifications. If you know what green job you might like to do, you can plan how you’re going to get the skills you’ll need.
But whatever job you choose, you’ll need soft skills (aka transferable skills). They’re useful for any job and essential! You can learn to boost your soft skills with Young Professional training. It’s free to do and you can work through the modules at your own pace – all you need to do is sign up and you’ll have access to all the courses.
