Pivoting to a climate job with LinkedIn’s Green Economy Lead
Degrees podcast season 7, episode 1
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If you’re passionate about the environment, but haven’t found a way to connect your interests with your job, there’s still hope. 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: LinkedIn - Green Jobs Checklist (FY25)
- 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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Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers is presented by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Yesh Pavlik Slenk and Daniel Hill are our hosts. Amy Morse is EDF’s producer. Emily Shaw Creates is our production company. The Degrees production team includes executive producer Emily Shaw, producers Anna Van Dine and Gabby Bulgarelli, technical director Jacob Winik, and mixing engineer Aja Simpson. Our theme song is Shame, Shame, Shame from Yesh’s favorite band, Lake Street Dive.