Climate Drift

The Climate Drift Career Accelerator for mid-career & executives kicked off. The first round of feedback is solid 🔥 Here are my top 3 from our members: 1️⃣ “I’ve gotten tremendous value out of the course; specifically the action-oriented nature of the course (learning doing, not just learning) and the orientation towards landing a career in climate and HOW to do it” 2️⃣ “The quality and access to the speakers so far has been unparalleled (and I've done programs with [multiple other climate education programs]).” 3️⃣ 10 out of 10: The content is in-depth and interesting, and gives the cohort opportunities to get involved by tackling challenges hands-on (which in my opinion, is the best way to learn!) If you want to make a difference and bring your talent into climate. Apply to our May ’24 cohort and join the Climate Drift community. More info and how to apply here: https://lnkd.in/eN8aCHsC

Another Climate Driftie with a successful career transition into Climate 💪 Congratulations, Aaron 👏

Here’s a climate postcard to kick you into action. Let’s think: Restore 🙌 (Credit to UN Environment Programme 😍) —— PS. If you found this helpful consider leaving a comment and following me here (Marco Morawec) and the Climate Drift company page 🌎

The best part of my job? Climate execs ask me for leadership talent. Each time this happens... I get to fully nerd out 🤓 And take advantage of all the work we’re doing to build the Climate Drift community. I get to go through… > Detailed answers from climate drift career accelerator applications. > Pages of notes from my initial screening conversations. > Our internal notes on why we accepted each member. > Member introduction, contributions, and writing samples. Then I “founder screen” their background career highlights performance during the accelerator. Trying to answer the most important question: Would I hire them and why? At the end, I typically have a short list of 1 to 3 candidates. Each, I would hire personally. Endorse fully. And vouch for. If it’s not a “Hell yes, I’d hire them”. You’re not on the list for this role. So far climate leaders and members love this approach. It shortens their cycle. It saves them time. Everyone starts with high trust and confidence. And people can hit the ground running on day one. Let’s go!! 🙌 —— PS. If you you’re a climate tech leader and want to find the 10x talent for your leadership team. Reach out to me 👋 PPS. If you’re wondering why I never mentioned LinkedIn…it's because I most likely helped those members improve their LinkedIn profile. So whatever you’re reading, is old news to me 😂 I’ve already put in the hard work and analyzed, digested, and synthesized their entire career story and background 😅

The 5 top recommended Climate Books (past 12 months). Use this to make yourself smart 👇 1️⃣ The Heath will Kill you First by Jeff Goodell 2️⃣ Our Fragile Moment: Lessons from the Earth’s Past by Michael Mann 3️⃣ The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri 4️⃣ Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie 5️⃣ Slow Down: the Degrowth Manifesto by @Kohei Saito In my opinion, books give you the “most-bang-per-minute-of-attention” learning there is. Use this list to update your reading list. Anything you would add to the list? ----- PS. Lots of professionals are struggling to find a job in Climate. At Climate Drift we provide training, networking opportunities, and skill-building projects to help professionals demonstrate their value and navigate the climate job market with confidence.

Here's some dead simple career advice you already knew (but somehow forgot) 👇 - Take ownership of your wins and failures - Block time to do deep work - Help somebody else win - Try new things, often - Share your learnings - Lead with kindness - Mentor somebody - Find a mentor - Stay healthy - Workout Don't know where to start? Pick two things out of the list and do them for the next 4 weeks. Report back on the improvements 🙌 ---- PS. If you found this helpful consider leaving a comment and following me here (Marco Morawec) and the Climate Drift company page 🌎

I love starting my week with Climate Drift Member feedback like this 👇 Have a great start into the new week everyone 🙌

Why are career centers at the best universities 25 years behind the times? You get to listen to some of the brightest lecturers and professors. But when you ask how to connect your learnings to a job. You’re told to: Go to the career center. There you’re told: 1. Tailor your resume to every job description. 2. Write a good cover letter. 3. Network. Nothing else. Maybe you get a few resume examples. Or somebody points out how you could improve your existing resume. But I’ve never heard of somebody walking out of their career center with: A networking strategy and specific tactics. What to talk about during networking calls. Feedback on their personal pitch. You know, something that most consider absolute baseline knowledge. Instead it’s advice that worked maybe 25 years ago 🤷♂️ Can somebody help me understand? (I’m truly curious...because I’ve heard this story over and over again). —— PS. Just to be clear, I went to university in Germany, and there was no thing as a career center…or at least I never found it 😂 But for a program that costs a lot of money (even with a scholarship) wouldn't you expect this to be top notch?

Really simple but powerful advice: For joining an early stage climate tech startup. Be the leader who can do both Strategy and Execution. Way too many people can only create slides but add no execution value. If you can build any reputation: Be it the one that you are getting stuff done. This is about the single biggest career hack you can find 🙌 --- PS. If you found this helpful consider leaving a comment and following me here (Marco Morawec) and the Climate Drift company page 🌎

All the reasons to work in climate vs. the one REAL truth 👇 All the real reasons: 1️⃣ The VCs tell you: > This is such a massive opportunity. > Many new unicorns will be made. > Only game worth playing. > Many will get filthy rich. > Huge difference maker. 2️⃣ The News tells you: > Most pressing issue of our generation. > Climate change is only getting worse. > The mission is clear: We need to fix it. > We need to save nature 🌱 3️⃣ The Tech People tell you: > This is just so cutting edge, it’s crazy. > Feels like early internet, times 1,000. > So many smart people involved. > So many more people needed. > Pushing boundaries. > Reinvent possbile. All true. But here’s why you really do it. You want to be cool 😎 And at the next Party, tell everyone: 👉 “I work in climate, because: I want to do better than my parents. → They didn’t have the right choices. → They didn’t understand. → How much this matters. But Today.... → There are not many excuses left. → We know what matters. → We have choices. → We can do it. And I don’t like wasting time finding excuses. I like rolling up my sleeves and go to work. So I have the right story to tell my children. “I tried to save your future. Gave everything I could. Day and Night”. (Then you feel like captain planet for a hot second before somebody asks you to pass the ketchup 😂) Use this to inspire and motivate you 🙌 —— PS. If you want to start a Career in Climate? Come join us at Climate Drift. 👉 We help professionals find their first leadership role in climate through the Climate Drift Career Accelerator. 👉 We help people curious about climate through our “Learn Do” Climate Community. 👉 We share a lot of free knowledge and climate sub sectors deep dives in our newsletter. All available on the Climate Drift website. (and links in first comment)