Transfer Your Skills to a Green Job with Work on Climate’s Eugene Kirpichov
05/10/23 • 22 min
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Eugene Kirpichov co-founded Work on Climate, an online community for people passionate about solving the climate crisis, in 2020. Prior to WoC, Kirpichov spent more than seven years as a software engineer with Google. But learning how severe the climate crisis was, he felt he could no longer stay in his job. The resignation letter he shared on LinkedIn went viral.
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Resources from this episode:
- Join Eugene Kirpichov’s Work on Climate community.
- Join other climate-specific communities:
- Read Kirpichov’s goodbye-to-Google letter.
- Check out the Climate Change and AI report that helped Kirpichov understand which of his skills were transferable.
- Browse other climate-related job boards:
- To find people to follow on LinkedIn, visit LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Green Economy list.
- Search the hashtag #OpenDoorClimate on LinkedIn to find climate professionals who are willing to chat with you. (This is the movement founded by Daniel Hill. Year of the Climate Job host and director of Environmental Defense Fund’s Innovation Fund.)
- Sign up for the Degrees newsletter.
- Here are some articles we love::
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- How to network for a green job with purpose-driven LinkedIn expert Nick@Noon
- Browngirl Green’s Kristy Drutman: Taking the mystery out of finding a green job
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Eugene Kirpichov co-founded Work on Climate, an online community for people passionate about solving the climate crisis, in 2020. Prior to WoC, Kirpichov spent more than seven years as a software engineer with Google. But learning how severe the climate crisis was, he felt he could no longer stay in his job. The resignation letter he shared on LinkedIn went viral.
Read the transcript of this episode
Resources from this episode:
- Join Eugene Kirpichov’s Work on Climate community.
- Join other climate-specific communities:
- Read Kirpichov’s goodbye-to-Google letter.
- Check out the Climate Change and AI report that helped Kirpichov understand which of his skills were transferable.
- Browse other climate-related job boards:
- To find people to follow on LinkedIn, visit LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Green Economy list.
- Search the hashtag #OpenDoorClimate on LinkedIn to find climate professionals who are willing to chat with you. (This is the movement founded by Daniel Hill. Year of the Climate Job host and director of Environmental Defense Fund’s Innovation Fund.)
- Sign up for the Degrees newsletter.
- Here are some articles we love::
Related episodes:
- How to network for a green job with purpose-driven LinkedIn expert Nick@Noon
- Browngirl Green’s Kristy Drutman: Taking the mystery out of finding a green job
***
🌎 Job hunting? Visit our comprehensive Green Jobs Hub for job listings, networking resources, skills and certification information and more.
💚 Follow and rate Degrees on Apple, Spotify, CastBox, or your favorite listening app.
📧 Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on green careers, upcoming episodes and mor...
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Resources from this episode:
- Follow Nick Martin on LinkedIn.
- To find people to follow on LinkedIn, visit LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Green Economy list.
- Search the hashtag #OpenDoorClimate on LinkedIn to find climate professionals who are willing to chat with you. (This is the movement founded by Year of the Climate Job Host Daniel Hill.
- Learn more about climate career scholarships from Dream.org.
- Check out Environmental Defense Fund’s Green Jobs Hub.
- Read the 2022 LinkedIn Global Green Skills Report.
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- Browse other climate-related job boards:
- Sign up for the Degrees newsletter.
- Here are some articles we love::
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Resources from this episode:
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- Find other climate learning and training platforms:
- Join climate-specific communities:
- Browse climate-related job boards:
- To find people to follow on LinkedIn, visit LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Green Economy list.
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- Search the hashtag #OpenDoorClimate on LinkedIn to find climate professionals who are willing to chat with you. (This is the movement founded by Year of the Climate Job Host Daniel Hill.
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