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Steven Jones's avatar

Fantastic overview, I have recently been collecting my own notes on this topic, now 2 years on my (passive) job hunt and will certainly share this with all my peers on similar journeys.

I have been mostly advocating for the top-down approach and especially for more senior roles where it benefits the job seeker to be more specialized in terms of area(s) of focus. I have found that getting plugged in (forgive the pun) to conversations has been easier when you bring something to the conversation. Show up with a point of view and look to have people challenge you as a way to sharpen your own perspective. This would seem to fit in around Step 3 in your prescribed approach here.

Great post!

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Shea Parikh's avatar

Thank you for this article Nan! Two of the clearest options for pivoting your career into climate seem to be to join a company or to start a company. I'm wondering if you had any advice for getting your existing company to move into climate? It seems like you joined Stripe after they had already decided to take climate action but what advice would you have for someone trying to get their existing company to take the first step and incorporate climate into their product? Beyond tying the proposed program back to important business metrics, do you have any advice for convincing leadership to believe that it's worth investing in climate?

For context, I'm a PM at a later stage fintech called Petal and have been working on a feature that would allow our 300k+ members to remove carbon every time they swipe their Petal card.

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