by Deborah S. Hildebrand

Created on: December 18, 2009

How You Can Find the Right Sustainability Position for You

Terminology can be tricky. Sometimes we say one thing when we really mean another. Take “green jobs” for instance. What is the definition anyway? While jobs making wind turbines or solar panels seem to garner solid support, the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) suggests that there are no real standards for what constitutes a green job.

The same is true for “job search engines.” Unfortunately, when you ask people to suggest those they think are the best they tend to gravitate toward career websites such as Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com or HotJobs.com and the engines that specifically drive the search through their list of posted openings. And while according to the Encarta World English Dictionary a search engine is “a computer program that searches for specific words and returns a list of documents in which they were found,” it just seems that the best job search engines for green jobs should be something more.

That being said, if your goal is to focus on finding the best job search engines that will lead you to the best green jobs regardless of where they are posted, then you will likely want something a little different than the big three.

GreenMaven.com 

Designed specifically to search the “green web” GreenMaven offers a lot more than just a job search engine. It is built to help you find all the best green and sustainable websites. What’s so great about looking for a green job on this green search engine is that when you enter the term “jobs” into the search box instead of receiving generic employment websites filled with all kinds of openings – green or not - the search comes back with very specific links to green jobs at green websites such as SustainableBusiness.com and SustainableIndustries.com. In addition there is also a GreenMaven Firefox plugin to make your searches go a little easier.

GreenLinkCentral.com

Much like GreenMaven in its specificity, it does lack some of the esthetic appeal that GreenMaven offers. GLC is just a simple search box (much like Google). However, GreenLinkCentral was designed to offer “a topic-specific network of Websites to provide consumers and businesses a convenient, one-stop place to find everything green.” In fact, they claim that all websites have been hand selected by the editors to provide high quality search results. The top links when searching for jobs were the

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