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Being savvy about green issues, and having an eco-smart lifestyle, can help you ace a job interview. Grab the attention of your potential employer and showcase your intelligence, leadership skills, and other top-notch qualities with these tips that'll help you use environmental know-how, and your personal green lifestyle choices, as a way to stand out from other candidates. When you're job-hunting, helping the planet can definitely help you seal the deal.
Use Your Green Action
Your future boss wants to know that you can be pro-active and take initiative. Showcasing how you've stepped up to the plate in greening your lifestyle is a great way to highlight those qualities. Offer up a anecdote or two that brings up a way you've taken green action, whether by daily habits or big changes, to reduce your carbon footprint or meet another green challenge. Your story will bring out the fact that you know how to leap on the chance to make something happen, an invaluable quality in the workplace.
Use Your Green Knowledge
Employers want to hire a candidate who's smart, curious, and knows how to keep a finger on the global pulse, so if you stay informed about green issues by reading an eco-news outlet like Treehugger, you've got a definite advantage over other jobseekers. Show off your ability to keep abreast of cutting edge developments in your industry or field by bringing up some recent news about how the company you're interviewing with (or a competitor!) has taken some steps towards making their practices more sustainable. Then, share your views on why it was or wasn't a good move. Your passion for your work will shine through, and you'll look informed and perceptive.
Use Your Green Leadership
For some extra wow factor, bring up what you've done to share your commitment to green action, and know-how about eco-issues, with your surrounding community. If you can, point out a time when you took a leadership role, maybe by doing something like getting fellow shoppers organized to green a supermarket, encouraging your friends to start a paperback swapping program where you share books to reduce waste, or making your previous office a little bit better by educating coworkers about eco-friendly printing practices. Employers want to hire someone who they can groom for advancement, so with a great example of how you've seized the opportunity to organize the people around you, you just might get the chance to make a new job part of your green lifestyle.
Want to know what you can do to reduce your carbon footprint? Find out on Planet Green TV's Wa$ted.
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