Pivoting to a climate job with LinkedIn’s Green Economy Lead
Nidhi Kaul, Green Economy Lead at LinkedIn, explains that the path to a green job isn’t always linear. In her experience, the best way to find guidance on your journey is through conversations with others.
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What can you do when you know you want a job in sustainability, but have no idea how to get there? When Nidhi Kaul graduated college, the pathway to her ideal career felt murky. Unsure of how to find the right job, she spent several years in consulting, developing skills and learning her strengths. After finding her way to a job in product management at LinkedIn, she joined an internal group at the company dedicated to sustainability. Her connection with that group ended up leading to her dream opportunity: now she is the Green Economy Lead at LinkedIn, and her whole job is helping others find green gigs. Along the way, Nidhi learned that conversations with others about their own pathways to green jobs can yield rich wisdom – and give a confidence boost.
Resources:
- Follow Nidhi Kaul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhikaul/
- LinkedIn's Green Job Search Checklist: https://www.linkedin.com/smart-links/AQEJO36lYLC7KQ/a5b7983c-c5d5-4ac1-9564-029ee992ea9c
- LinkedIn Sustainability Resource Hub: https://socialimpact.linkedin.com/sustainability-hub
- Drew Wilkinson’s LinkedIn Learning course: Employee Engagement: Making Sustainability Part of Everybody’s Job https://www.linkedin.com/learning/employee-engagement-making-sustainability-part-of-everybody-s-job
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