VIDEO: Urban Green Council Emerging Professionals Career Fair and Roundtable
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The Urban Green Council’s Emerging Professionals are proud to announce the 4th annual Urban Green Career Fair. Hosted by The New School, this event will connect young professionals and students with esteemed architecture, engineering, construction, real estate, and product firms in the green building industry. Come join us for an intimate recruiting environment and educational panel discussion geared toward sustainably focused professional development. Whether you are looking for a job, internship, career transition, networking opportunity or general information on companies, products and careers in the green building industry, there is something for you here.
Schedule:
10:00am – 12:30pm: Career Fair recruiting, session 1 (Theresa Lang Student Venter , 55 West 13th St, 2nd Floor)
12:45pm – 1:45pm: Educational Session (Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor
Topic: “NYC Green Building Codes Effect on the Job Market”
New York City is leading the path to sustainable cities with recently enacted laws, effective July 1, 2010, that aim to improve the efficiency of buildings. In this panel you will hear key points of the new codes and what it all means for you – the job-seeker. Come learn about the opportunities firms believe complying with these code will create, the new services firms may be providing, and the skill sets they will be looking for when hiring in this new environment.
Panelists
Valerie Corbett, Intelligreen Partners
Kirsten Eiler, Mayor’s Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability
David Hepinstall, Association for Energy Affordability, Inc. (AEA)
Charlie Marino, AKF Engineers
Shillpa Singh, YRG Sustainability
2:00pm – 4:30pm: Career Fair recruiting, session 2 (Theresa Lang Student Venter , 55 West 13th St, 2nd Floor)
-$5 Admission for Job Seekers
-Free for New School Students and Alumni!
-Sponsors of Urban Green Council may purchase a recruiting table for $150
-All other companies can purchase a recruiting table for $250
(Recruiters receive lunch with purchase of a table)
Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Address:
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10011
United States
You can find additional info., including a list of recruiting companies here: http://joinus.urbangreencouncil.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=104641
If you’d like to attend this event you can purchase tickets online.
Please find this link for registration for both Attendees and Recruiters for the Career Fair: http://getinvolved.usgbcny.org/site/Calendar/1054528372?view=Detail&id=104641