Demand For Green Skills Outpacing What The Workforce Can Deliver—But There's Hope

Possessing one or more ‘green skills’ can increase your chances of getting hired by 29%, according to a new report by LinkedIn. Every career can be greengetty Do you ever wish you could make a bigger difference for the planet? Maybe, like me, you have a career that isn’t particularly ‘green’—that is, it isn’t directly related to fighting climate change. But you still want to make a difference. The good news is, we can. It’s not just the clearly ‘green’ career titles like solar technician and sustainability manager that can have a positive impact on the environment. The rest of us can develop what are now being called ‘green skills’ to do our part in helping make life a little more sustainable here on Earth. “It’s not just about adding more obvious green jobs, it’s also about using skills to transform every job into a greener, more sustainability-minded version,” says Efrem Bycer, Sr. Lead Manager, Public Policy & Economic Graph at LinkedIn. “Over the next decade, we need to take dramatic action to make our planet livable for generations to come, and new climate policies and commitments are driving the increase in ‘green’ jobs.” Bycer and I connected recently to
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