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Solar Jobs: What to Do — and Not Do — When Pursuing Your Next Green Job

A light bulb just turned on in your head (a non-incandescent one, that is): You realize that solar jobs really are the way of the future, and you’re starting to actually look for green jobs in this promising environmentally friendly field. From solar panels to solar-powered light bulbs that have the potential to last 10 years – and survive through traditional power outages –many new products in the solar jobs industry are creating employment. Don’t burn your chance of landing a job. Here are four things to do — and not do — when pursuing your future solar job.

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Wind Jobs: Wind Energy Jobs Come in Many Forms

Are you interested in becoming a lawyer, engineer or researcher? You could be much closer to your dream job in the wind energy industry than you think. Wind jobs are filled by more than just wind turbine technicians. People who have a wide variety of skills can break into the wind jobs industry – an industry that, by 2030, should employ half a million people here in the United States.

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Green Energy Jobs: Top Green Energy Stocks This Year

We’re more than halfway through 2012, and if you’re not seriously investing yet – or you’re too scared to invest due to the volatility of the stock market – then you need some reliable options. Green energy admittedly remains a growing trend, and it’s a trend that can help you to end up with some greens in your pocket if you know how to play your cards right. Here are five green energy companies worth investing in this year in the green energy jobs sector.

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Energy Jobs: Green Energy Jobs Count Pales Against Initial Goal

Tens of thousands of green energy jobs have been created since U.S. President Barack Obama entered the Oval Office four years ago, but some experts say if you’re still looking for one of these jobs, you’re not alone. In fact, you’re in the company of hundreds of thousands of other job seekers. There simply should be more of these green energy jobs by now, experts say, so the president’s initial promise to put half a million people to work in the green energy sector hasn’t quite materialized.

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Environmental Jobs: Top 5 Business Schools for Entrepreneurs

Being an entrepreneur has its benefits: You answer to yourself rather than to The Man. You also have freedom to do business as you wish, and when you wish. Being an entrepreneur in the environmental jobs field also has its advantages: You can help Mother Earth in the exact way that you wish, but you need to go to the right school to get your boost of knowledge in green entrepreneurship. Here are five of the top business schools for the environmental jobs entrepreneur (arranged by tuition cost).

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Solar Jobs: The Big Apple Becomes “The Bright Apple”

By next year, New York City will be even more of a shining city on a hill. Here, solar energy in 2013 is not expected to merely double or triple but actually quadruple in the wake of legislation that recently extended or developed tax incentives to help government agencies, companies and homeowners take advantage of solar energy. Here, solar jobs are here to stay, and the Big Apple very well could adopt a new nickname in the near future – the Bright Apple.

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Green Project Management: How to Get Your Company to Accept the Cost of Going Green

Making Your Company Green Doesn't Have to be Expensive - Image from Forbes.com Face it: As a project manager, your aim is to ensure that company projects are successful. Black and green are your favorite colors—you want the company to be in the black, and the path to making this happen is completely green. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to save the company some “greens”—or money—by being an efficient project manager, and there’s also nothing wrong with wanting to go green—by being eco-friendly—in order to grow your own project management career opportunities as well as your wallet size at the end of the day. The question is how do you know that your project management office is really ready to go green?

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