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Explore sustainability.

Describe a time when you faced an unexpected challenge and had to readjust your direction. What was most challenging? What did you learn?

Reflect on challenges you've experienced. 

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Chief Sustainability Officers

Communicate and coordinate with management, shareholders, customers, and employees to address sustainability issues. Enact or oversee a corporate sustainability strategy.

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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First Interest High-Point

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

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Identify educational, training, or other development opportunities for sustainability employees or volunteers.

Identify and evaluate pilot projects or programs to enhance the sustainability research agenda.

Conduct sustainability- or environment-related risk assessments.

Create and maintain sustainability program documents, such as schedules and budgets.

Write project proposals, grant applications, or other documents to pursue funding for environmental initiatives.

Supervise employees or volunteers working on sustainability projects.

Write and distribute financial or environmental impact reports.

Review sustainability program objectives, progress, or status to ensure compliance with policies, standards, regulations, or laws.

Formulate or implement sustainability campaign or marketing strategies.

Research environmental sustainability issues, concerns, or stakeholder interests.

Evaluate and approve proposals for sustainability projects, considering factors such as cost effectiveness, technical feasibility, and integration with other initiatives.

Develop sustainability reports, presentations, or proposals for supplier, employee, academia, media, government, public interest, or other groups.

Develop, or oversee the development of, sustainability evaluation or monitoring systems.

Develop, or oversee the development of, marketing or outreach media for sustainability projects or events.

Develop methodologies to assess the viability or success of sustainability initiatives.

Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of sustainability programs.

Direct sustainability program operations to ensure compliance with environmental or governmental regulations.

Develop or execute strategies to address issues such as energy use, resource conservation, recycling, pollution reduction, waste elimination, transportation, education, and building design.

10-key calculators

Computer data input scanners

Desktop computers

Handheld computers

Laptop computers

Multi-line telephone systems

Personal computers

Photocopying equipment

Smartphones

Video teleconferencing systems

Email software

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Word

Scheduling software

Teleconferencing software

Web browser software

Sustainability Director

<p>In Fort Collins, Colorado, Calvin, Tina, and Vanessa stop to have a pint with Jennifer Orgolini, Sustainability Director, and Bryan Simpson, Media Relations Director, of New Belgium Brewing Company. The team then proceeds to Kansas City to interview Greg Carroll, CEO of the American Jazz Museum. Across town, they are also able to connect with Michelle Dreher, printmaker, owner, and operator of Two Tone Press.</p>

Jennifer Orgolini

Sustainability Director

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