An interactive workshop – Map your skills to the sustainability jobs market
Who should attend? Anyone looking to break into sustainability or gain a competitive edge for the jobs market
What? 1.5 hour skills workshop
Where? The Hub, Kings Cross, London
When? Wednesday 16 January, 6 – 730pm
Walk of Life Consulting’s Career Coach, Shannon Houde, will let you in on her secrets from 20 years in recruitment and 10 years in the sustainability field. She will also share her experiences of entering and working in this sector.
You will:
• Gain insights into market leader, M&S’s, skills for success in the sustainable business field
• See the results of job functions from the Acre Salary Survey 2012
• Walk away with skills mapping tool
About Shannon Houde:
Shannon Houde, MBA, is founder of Walk of Life Consulting, the first international career coaching business focused solely on the environmental, sustainability and Corporate Responsibility (CR) fields. She also launched and currently runs the Acre Career Coaching service for leading sustainability recruitment company, Acre Resources.
Shannon specializes in helping a diverse group of sustainability professionals including career changers, job seekers, university career centres, masters graduates, outplacement teams, and practioners to match their values and skills to viable career options in this ever-growing industry. She has chosen sustainability career coaching to combine her experience as a hiring manager, a life coach and a CR consultant, after having started her career 20 years ago in corporate recruiting.
Shannon has mentored and trained professionals in the field of CR for more than 10 years with a focus on matching personal values to career paths, writing CVs as marketing tools, and interviewing with impact. She combines a wealth of knowledge from 15 years’ managing cross-cultural teams and CR projects in Asia, Europe, North and South America, in non-profit, corporate and entrepreneurial environments across diverse industries.