Green careers can be any occupation that is affected by
activities such as conserving energy, developing alternative energy,
reducing pollution, or recycling.
Green occupations fall into three groups:
- Higher Demand Green Occupations
- Changing Skills Green Occupations
- New Green Occupations
Find more than
green occupations in following
Holland Codes resources -
- 150 Best Jobs for a Better World
- Stem Careers Inventory
150 Best Jobs for a Better World
Improve the world through your work while enjoying many rewards,
including good pay. This special book covers jobs that let you do
good for others or
society and
yourself.
Through
100 best jobs lists and
150 job descriptions, you explore careers in -
- Health
- Education
- Fine arts
- Public safety
- Social service
- Natural resources, and more.
The careers are ranked by
pay, growth, and openings, so that you can do well while doing good.
Best jobs lists are organized by -
- 6 world-saving criteria
- 3 economic factors
- 11 education and training levels
- 15 interest clusters
- 6 personality types, and more
The
job descriptions reveal -
- Salary
- Growth through 2014
- Annual openings
- Percentages of part-time and self-employed workers
- Tasks
- Skills needed
- Education and training programs
- Related knowledge and courses
- Work environment
Stem Careers Inventory
STEM and
green occupations promise growth and opportunity, and are key to U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace.
But how do you know which
STEM occupations suit you best?
In just
five steps, this
easy-to-use assessment helps students and young people
discover their personality type and then
match it to STEM and green careers.
Users respond to
72 brief items,
total their scores, and
identify their Holland RIASEC personality type.
Next
they identify appealing jobs that align with their top personality types.
Green job titles are in a
green typeface for quick and easy recognition.
Another step
features a worksheet for
researching careers of interest and
lists career exploration resources.
In the
final step, students match their personality to education-related career clusters and career academies.
All job titles in the
STEM Careers Inventory are from the
U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database.
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