Many people don’t immediately connect “sustainability” and “recruiting,” but putting these two powerful concepts together can yield several business benefits.
Sustainability recruiting can have a long-term impact on a company’s profitability, productivity and employee happiness. There is not one but rather five definitions of sustainability recruiting.
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I love talking to the iconoclasts who make drastic career changes, like those who leave a grassroots nonprofit for the halls of a corporation. That’s what Jonathan Wootliff and Danny Kennedy did when they went to the private sector from Greenpeace. I wouldn’t call them turncoats, but rather people who took their passion to a different side of the equation. The way I see it, businesses need pressure to do the right thing coming from the outside as well as the inside. These guys agree. What I was most curious to ask them was, why go into the private sector after publicly damning companies, and how is the work different?
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At the recent Cleantech Forum San Francisco, I was surrounded by buyers (investors) and sellers (cleantech startups) from all over the world, including Hong Kong, Sweden, Canada and Ecuador.
With speakers from companies such as EMC, Google and General Electric, the forum had all the necessary ingredients for a compelling conversation on the future of energy, environmental innovation and more.
But something was missing for me. I think it was the human element or a more fundamental question that went unasked, and therefore, unanswered: What are the human factors that go into these disruptive innovations?
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There are all types of chief sustainability officers (CSOs) out there.
In addition to the corporate CSOs that I have researched, there is a growing number of chief sustainability officers at cities, hospitals and universities. My search firm, Weinreb Group, is currently doing the search for the Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Palo Alto (applications due April 12).
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Aramark, a food service and facility management firm, knows that setting up a solid sustainability internship not only can attract bright, young talent for that short stint, but can keep them on as sustainability experts. At least, that was the idea when Aramark’s Sustainability Internship Program was created, with the aim of helping to gain and train employees who have practical sustainability, as well as business, know-how.
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Last week, Weinreb Group published its updated list of chief sustainability officers. While we identified eight new CSOs, we also identified two second CSOs: Ezra Garrett from PG&E and Shawn Heath from Duke Energy. Our 2011 report, “CSO Back Story,” identified Diane Holdorf of Kellogg as the first-ever second CSO — the first CSO to succeed another in the same position.
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Today, I have the pleasure of introducing not one, but two, Longsworths. Meet sisters Annie and Amy. Annie (the one on the right in the accompanying photo) joined Saatchi & Saatchi S as CEO a year ago. Amy is a Managing Director in PwC’s Sustainable Business Solutions practice. I met with them recently to better understand the paths that led them to similar positions.
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Walmart has taken seriously the task of making the global supply chain more sustainable, but also helping its own associates make sustainability-conscious choices in their lives. The tale of Walmart’s personal sustainability initiative for employees began in 2007, when an associate pilot program boasted impressive results. Within the first few years, the company saw 20,000 U.S. associates kick their smoking habits; recycle three million pounds of plastic; and, as a group, shed a collective 184,000 pounds from their bodies.
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VERGE has been dangled in front of me for a couple years, but I didn’t take the plunge until last month, for VERGE SF. Like many things in life, I didn’t get what all the hype was about until I experienced it for myself. I thought it may be just another sustainability conference, which is never a bad thing for a recruiter who looks at sustainability jobs within varying industries.
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Prior to co-founding yerdle, a startup launching today, Andy Ruben held several roles over a decade at Walmart, including serving as its first head of sustainability, from 2004 to 2007. I am fascinated with Ruben’s transformation from corporate giant to entrepreneur. His strategic focus has shifted from selling more stuff to sharing more stuff. Here’s his story.
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