Interactive Solar Career Map is Latest Tool for Industry Job Seekers
By Michael Albrecht
In 2009 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its SunShot Initiative, entered into a partnership with the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) to create the national Solar Instructor Training Network (SITN). In support of that effort, IREC recently launched the online Solar Career Map, an interactive tool designed to assist persons interested in joining the solar energy workforce.
For the solar job seeker, the Solar Career Map allows the user to plot various career pathways into and across the solar energy industry, based on skill level and job sector. Persons currently employed in industries such as manufacturing, design, marketing or construction may find they can segue easily into a solar-related job with their existing skill sets. Or, a person can choose a career pathway that leads them from one sector of the solar energy to another. The interactive map graphically demonstrates that the expanding solar energy industry encompasses a broad range of interconnected occupations.
View a one-hour Solar Career Map webinar here.
According to the DOE website, the SunShot Initiative “is a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy cost competitive with other forms of energy by the end of the decade. Reducing the installed cost of solar energy systems by about 75 percent will drive widespread, large-scale adoption of this renewable energy technology and restore U.S. leadership in the global clean energy race.”