Career Guide
You are committed to impactful climate work - congrats!
We will show you how to:
- Choose your employer type and look at job boards
- Evaluate your skills and experience
- Build your community and network
- Pick your climate solution and information diet
First: Choose your employer type
You have a choice
- Try to make your "regular job" more climate positive
- Leave your "regular job" and work for a dedicated climate organization
Note: most climate tech companies are early stage startups.
- You can explore government jobs
- Or look for sustainability positions within larger tech companies
Job boards
The three most popular:
- ClimateBase
- Climate Tech List
- Terra.do
- ...there are dozens and dozens more on Nicole Kelner's spreadsheet.
Evaluate your skills and experience
Tech skills and experience
- Do you already have "regular tech" experience - and just need climate knowledge?
- Or...do you need a better tech portfolio + climate knowledge?
If you'd like a stronger portfolio for tech skills or climate knowledge:
👉 Join us on Slack & GitHub and help us build the Handbook 👈
Build your community and network
Slack / Discord communities
- The Climate Tech Handbook
- Work on Climate
- MCJ Collective
- Women in Climate
- DER Task Force (DER = Distributed Energy Resources)
- Tofu - for marketers, Tofu = Top of Funnel
- Climate Designers
Local Meetups
- See if your city is listed in climatetechcities.com
- Host your own! Here's a short guide from MCJ Collective.
- Try a ☕️ coffee crawl for example!
Pick your solution and information diet
There are great ways to volunteer and plug in.
👉 Ask us on Slack if you need help. 👈
