Green Careers Week

This week marks the 3rd year of Green Careers Week. This initiative is designed to raise aspirations, support diversity, challenge stereotypes, and promotes real opportunities for young people to have a career that will genuinely make a difference. A green career can be any job, role or occupation that contributes to preserving or restoring the environment and our planet. It can be any industry, not just those seen as ‘green.’ Green skills are abilities, attributes, values, attitudes, knowledge, and technical skills needed to adapt services, processes and procedures to support climate change.

In 2024, LinkedIn reported that, “By 2050, there will be twice as many jobs requiring green skills as people qualified to fill them if today’s trends continue…. Job seekers with green skills or titles see a 54.6% higher hiring rate than the workforce overall.” This report also highlights the fastest growing green skills in the UK:

Building performance
Decarbonisation
Low carbon
Responsible sourcing
Environmental studies.

In addition, according to a report by Hays, leading specialist in workforce solutions and recruitment: “Overall, a third of employers (33%) said they expect the need for sustainability specialists and green skills to increase over the next 12 months.” Furthermore, they state that “97% of those hiring sustainability professionals have experienced skills shortages in the last year.”

To continue to promote our Careers Education in school, Year 7 have been invited to visit Mrs Brakes in the Careers Room so that they are familiar with the resources and support available to them in regards to careers at Dyson Perrins and a house challenge google classroom quiz on green careers has been launched. In addition to this, key information and ideas about Green jobs have been shared to students. Perhaps this might be something that Year 10 will consider when looking at securing Work Experiences places for the summer term or Year 11 when looking at courses for life beyond Dyson Perrins. This is something they may want to ask our providers who are currently coming into school over the coming weeks to talk to them in assembly about post 16 education and opportunities.

We want all our students to feel well supported and educated when it comes to careers and this is why we are committed to promoting lots of opportunities as part of our Personal Development programme.

The following resources may be helpful to students and parents if you would like to find out more about Green Careers that have been shared by our Careers school advisor Clare Gilks.