FOR STUDENTS
Sustainability for Students X SustainaPod
SUSTAINABLE FUTURES TOOLKIT: Empowering Youth for a Green Career
Our Purpose
In a call to demystify the sustainability industry, we aim to create a tool to ensure that young people have access to the key takeaways from industry participants’ knowledge and experience. If you are a young person interested in a career in sustainability, this tool is for you to understand what career opportunities are out there, and what skills you would need to develop to pursue these.
How to use this action-focused tool
This is not just an informative report, but an action-focused toolkit. We hope it can serve as a springboard for you to discover how you want to start your career with a focus on sustainability and impact.
Throughout the report, there will be key prompts and questions for you to consider on how you can best leverage the insights from our research to consider in your own purposeful sustainability career journey.
We hope this is the start of what is an exciting journey of self-discovery!
For any feedback/ thoughts on how we can improve this, please don’t hesitate to reach out to hello@sustainabilityforstudents.com.
Features
01. Diverse Industry Insight
Insight from almost 100 industry professionals from all over the world on key skills in the sustainability sector.
02. Career Testimonials
Testimonials from industry professionals for key career professions in the industry.
03. Reality Checks
Advice for developing skills along with CV and interview tips for showcasing skills.
04. Most Valuable Skills
Widely applicable skills identified to be invaluable for succeeding in diverse career paths
05. Career and Skills Mapping
Most relevant skills for specific careers are identified, with advice on how to build them.
Contents & Structure
Conceptual Underpinning
Our Toolkit is underpinned by the Inner Development Goals, developed by a global team as an open-source initiative aimed at fostering inner development for sustainable futures.
Pathfinder Tool
London Hub III of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers have developed a tool that will lead you on a path of self-discovery through a four-step journey, guiding you through frameworks and exercises that you can use to gain clarity about your own career journey. Using Pathfinder, this interactive tool brings together a self-discovery journey that supports young people to Discover, Empower, Explore and Plan for their goals.
Soft and Technical Skills
Respondents to our survey highlighted several top soft and technical skills most valued in their line of work. These skills were mentioned the most by respondents. What is evident is that though some jobs require more technical skills than others, there are a couple of stand-out soft skills valued by the majority of respondents.
Career Journey Showcase
When planning the kind of job you want to be applying for, use this section to get a sense of what that job might look like.
Feel free to use the below sections as a reference point, but be sure to do further desktop research and conversations with professionals in your geographic area of interest, as job opportunities, experiences, and salaries will differ greatly in different countries as well as change a lot too.
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