Climate and sustainability is one of the hardest sectors to break into. Roles attract hundreds of applicants, most companies are small and hiring slowly, and the mission filter means employers are looking for something beyond a technically competent CV. If you're a graduate or early in your career, that's a brutal combination: you're often rejected before a human has read a word you wrote.
I've spent over six years on the other side of that process, including a year at Meta hiring machine learning and data engineers. I know what makes a hiring manager stop scrolling, and I know how many good people get filtered out for reasons that have nothing to do with whether they could do the job. These services exist to close that gap.
Resume + LinkedIn = opportunity.
A hands-on option if you'd rather do the work yourself. I go through your resume in detail and give you specific, prioritised feedback on structure, framing and content, so you can make the changes with a clear sense of why each one matters.
A full rewrite. You send me your current resume and answer a short set of questions about your roles and what you actually achieved in them, and I rebuild the document from the ground up around impact rather than responsibilities.
Everything in the Resume Edit, plus a cover letter built from your background and tailored to the kind of climate roles you're targeting. Useful when you're applying to smaller mission-driven companies, where a genuine cover letter still carries real weight.
Most technical LinkedIn profiles are an afterthought, which is a problem when it's the first place a recruiter looks. I rebuild your headline, About section and experience so you surface in the right searches and read as someone deliberately moving into climate. Includes a custom banner at no extra cost.
If you're moving into climate from an adjacent sector, the hardest part is making your existing experience read as relevant rather than unrelated. We work out which parts of your background actually transfer and build the whole story around that.
This is an interactive process, not a document you order and collect. The results depend on how much you put into the questions I ask, so I only take on people who are ready to engage with it properly.
Landing the interview is only half of it. These are the things that usually decide the outcome once you're in the room, and the areas where early-career candidates most often lose offers they should have won.
Technical and system design practice, plus the behavioural side that most engineers under-prepare for. We work through the specific format your target companies use, so nothing on the day is a surprise.
Honest numbers for your level, function and market across the US and Europe. Climate salaries vary widely between well-funded scale-ups and early-stage companies, and going in without that context is how people end up underpaid for years.
What's actually negotiable, what isn't, and how to ask without damaging the relationship. Includes equity, which is where most candidates at climate start-ups have the least information and the most at stake.
A proper conversation about where you're heading rather than just the next role. Particularly useful for the move from individual contributor into leadership, or for working out whether a sector switch makes sense before you commit to it.
Before you start looking, a clear picture of which companies are hiring in your space, what they pay, and where your background would land best. No approaches made, nothing shared with anyone.
Book a free consultation and I'll give you an honest read on where you are and what would actually move the needle, whether or not you end up working with me.
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scott@goldenacrepartners.com
Goldenacre Partners