What do you do if your resume doesn't effectively showcase your sustainability skills and experience?

Consider the following steps to enhance: #Before writing your resume, understand who will be reading it. Research the organization, industry, and role you are applying for. Consider the following questions: What sustainability issues and initiatives matter to them? What are their goals, values, and challenges? What skills and qualifications are they seeking? How can you demonstrate alignment with their culture and mission? #Use keywords and phrases specific to sustainability. #If you’ve led sustainability initiatives or teams, emphasize this. #Illustrate how you collaborate with diverse groups. @tailor your content, customize your resume for each application...best of luck!

To enhance your resume's focus on sustainability, integrate specific sustainability projects and accomplishments within your work experience section. Highlight your roles in these initiatives, quantifying outcomes where possible (e.g., reduced carbon footprint by X%). If applicable, include any relevant certifications or education in sustainability. Tailor your skills section to include sustainability-related competencies. Additionally, consider a brief profile summary at the top of your resume that positions you as a professional with a commitment to sustainability.

First off all identify the sector and position you want. Second search for people in LinkedIn who are working in the job you want and see what they had study for be there. After this you are ready to develop yourself, the internet is full of courses, whether free ou paid.

When it comes to sustainability we often leave out the obvious. Sustainability is not just the science based methods we are now focusing on for supporting ESG or decarbonization It is more. Engaging with communities to improve understanding of environment, supporting adaptation processes for those impacted by natural disaster or advocating for environmental issues in policy are contributions to sustainability. Be sure to highlight any such engagement if you are exploring sustainability as a career. Developing sustainability programs needs integrated knowledge and experience and such exposures will enhance your resume.

Several renowned institutions across the globe offer free or funded course registrations on a remote/virtual scale. World leaders in education, such as the University of Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard provide incredible short-term qualifications that can increase our CV's value multiple-fold. Truly studying and completing these courses can also aid our own expertise in the area of sustainability we'd like to focus on in our career.

While most resumes seem stagnant and repetitive in terms of their design and format, the ones that stand out tend to have a few modifications which can seem risky for a professional document. Using subtle nature-based elements from easy-to-use softwares like Canva can spruce up your resume quite easily. Furthermore, following the conventional format of Education-Work Experience-Skills is not mandatory. I replaced the Skills section in my CV with 'Opportunities Offered' and 'Certifications Gained' which garnered quite a few look-backs from recruiting agents and hiring teams.

Sustainability skills are growing in demand daily! They are your skills and as with any skills, you explain clearly what you offer in a way that answers so what? To any CV reader. No special fonts, colours anything! If you have sustainability skills tell the world.