Professional Skills Module: Environmental Career Strategies

Join us for a lively, interactive workshop designed to improve the strategy skills you need to advance your environmental career during and after your time at YSE. Together with classmates from both the first and second year cohorts, you'll explore:

*How to find a balance between your personal aspirations, the needs of the environmental moment, and the paid opportunities at government, corporate, consulting and nonprofit employers;
*The importance of identifying - and working in - your professional "community of practice";
*Ways to use AI tools to inform your environmental career strategy;
*How portfolios differ from resumes, and why it matters;
*The career strategy options available to you, and how to choose one that works for your style;
*Trends and issues affecting environmental employment right now and how to track them;
... and so much more!

About your instructor

Since July, 2019, Kevin Doyle has been the Executive Director of the Office of Career and Professional Development at the Yale School of the Environment. For 12 years before coming to Yale, he was the Founder and President of Green Economy, an independent environmental consulting firm, headquartered in Boston. From 1998-2007, Kevin was the National Director of Program Development at the former Environmental Careers Organization (ECO). He is the co-author of three environmental career reference guides for Island Press in Washington, DC.

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