The 5 Steps to Land Your Dream Job in Climate Tech 💥
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Hey 👋 - Yoann here.
Each Saturday, I send out 1 actionable tip to support the growth of your Climate Tech startup, your fund or your career.
It can be read in less than 4 min.
Enjoy!
🙏 Welcome to the 22 new subscribers this week!
You might already be working in Climate Tech. Congrats! 🙌
But there are so many talented people desperately looking for a way in.
And there are even more that don't know their dream job is there, waiting.
Every week, I get asked for the best way to land a great job in Climate Tech.
You've probably been asked too.
Friends thinking about changing careers, looking for meaning, but don't know where to start.
This post is for them, and they need YOUR help. So please share! 📣
Here are my 5 steps to land a dream job in Climate.
1-Join the most vibrant Climate Tech communities
My Climate Journey - Global, with strong US focus
Work on Climate - Global, action-oriented Slack community for people serious about climate work
Voyagers - Europe, whatsapp group and organized retreats to have fun with Climate peeps
On Deck Climate Tech - Global
GreenTech Alliance - Europe
2- Consider taking a course to boost your knowledge and network
Terra.do has an excellent Climate Tech investing course
Chris Wedding runs a course on Coursera: Renewable Energy and Green Building Entrepreneurship
3- Listen to the most insight-packed Climate Tech podcasts
My Climate Journey to hear climate founders and investors from the US
Climate Insiders to get insights from Europe's top Climate founders and investors
Catalyst with Shayle Kann, to dig into specific verticals
Carbotnic to go even deeper and hear technical discussions
BONUS:
Climate Tech VC, join this weekly newsletter to stay up to date on investments, trends and major news in Climate
4-Browse jobs on the Climate Tech job aggregators
There are thousands of jobs and hundreds of organizations listed across ALL sectors, experience levels and geographies. And not just technical.
Climatebase (7000+ jobs)
Climate Jobs List (5500 jobs)
ClimateEU (765 jobs in the EU only)
Climate People (35 jobs listed)
Climate Tech VC (20 jobs listed)
You should also scan the dedicated Climate VC’s job portals
700 open positions in Norsken.vc/jobs portfolio
75 open positions in Pale Blue Dot's portfolio
123 jobs opened across 2150 portfolio
5- Follow these 2 advice to secure the dream job
#1 - Craft the RIGHT story to convince the employer:
Job interviews are not really about you. They are about the employer’s needs and how you can fill them.
Adjust your story to make it relevant to the job. And skip the steps that aren't directly pertinent.
#2 - Employers are looking for mission-aligned candidates. Take it upon yourself to do a project that highlights your commitment to this area:
a design portfolio
a creative video
a medium article
a spiky LinkedIn post
a competitive analysis of all companies in that vertical
list of all investors in the space
How do you just create something out of thin air?
Follow tutorials
Imitate inspiring figures on LinkedIn and create something similar that you care about
Participate in a Climate hackathon
If you're an engineer, use publicly available data, tap into open APIs and build a small project
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