We had a sense that renewable energy was hot. LinkedIn backs that up: The renewable energy industry is hiring at roughly double the rate of the oil and gas industry, according to the job site’s crunching of hiring data.Renewable energy’s hiring rate has outpaced that of oil and gas since March 2020, with the gap continuing into 2023. LinkedIn calculates its hiring rate by taking the ratio of hires and dividing that by its total membership. That data is indexed to 2016. The number of renewable jobs posted on LinkedIn this year was the highest ever. And in the first three months of this year, there were 69 percent more renewable energy jobs posted compared with the same period a year earlier, according to LinkedIn. Meanwhile, oil and gas job postings during that time period grew by 57 percent.Across all energy sectors, the solar industry is hiring the fastest.The high demand for renewables workers underscores a potential problem: a wide — and growing — gap between workers who have “green” skills and jobs that want them.The social-media platform found that the percentage of workers with green skills rose by a median of 12.3 percent from 2022 to 2023, while the
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Green jobs are hot on LinkedIn – POLITICO
