CleanTechies Boosts Job Seekers’ Confidence to Pursue Careers in CleanTech

Leading global career services forum launches professional resume writing services

San Francisco, CA, March 25, 2009 – CleanTechies.com, a leading global career services forum providing insight, orientation, and opportunities for the CleanTech community, has launched professional resume writing services to meet the increasing demand for guidance and orientation in the growing CleanTech and Renewable Energy market. CleanTechies’ new offering focuses on helping job seekers identify and leverage their most relevant skills and experiences. With expertly written resumes and cover letters that highlight their strengths, job seekers have the confidence to successfully pursue careers in this new economy. The new service can be found at: http://cleantechies.com/professional-resume-writing-services/

“In this emerging market, talent with relevant experience is hard to find, and employers are looking for candidates with specific qualifications and clearly transferable skills,” says Ian Thomson, CEO and Co-founder of CleanTechies. “With the growing number of new graduates and career changers attracted by clean technologies and renewable energies, applicants need to set themselves apart – particularly as companies are hiring less. CleanTechies pulls career changers as well as more experienced industry professionals out of the crowd with powerful resumes and cover letters that showcase their most marketable skills and experiences to catch a recruiter’s attention.”

CleanTechies offers its new resume writing services to job seekers at all career levels, such as students, entry-level and mid-career professionals, executives, and military personnel looking to transition into civilian careers. CleanTechies covers all industries and functions, including finance, marketing, sales, and project management. The new service complements the career offering on the CleanTechies website, where job seekers can find relevant professional opportunities, register to be considered for future recruiting, learn about job search strategies, and get insight on leading CleanTech companies. An overview of all CleanTechies’ Career Services can be found at http://cleantechies.com/cleantech-job-search-career-services/

CleanTechies Receives “Best Blog of the Day” Award

San Francisco, CA, March 2, 2009 – Today, CleanTechies was awarded as “Best Blog of the Day” by the Blog of the Day Awards. The award comes only two months after CleanTechies was awarded 2nd place for “Best Business Blog” by the Weblog Awards.”We are psyched to receive this award,” says Ian Thomson, CEO and Co-founder of CleanTechies. “It shows that CleanTechies is on the right way to becoming the leading career services forum providing insight, orientation, and opportunities for the CleanTech community.”The Blog of the Day Awards was started by Bill Austin in 2006 and has been awarding the “Best Blog of the Day Award” on a regular basis to weblogs of various topics. The award’s judges look at dozens of sites each day and decide which are the best on the basis of key factors, such as content, quality, design, clarity and creativity. The best sites are then announced on the award’s homepage.

CleanTechies Awarded 2nd Place For “Best Business Blog”

San Francisco, CA, January 13, 2009 – Voting for The 2008 Weblog Awards is now over. CleanTechies scored a great 2nd place! Thanks to everyone for their tremendous support! It’s a great achievement for the CleanTechies community to have a green blog win silver!

CleanTechies Nominated As “Best Business Blog”

World’s largest blog competition The Weblog Awards selects CleanTechies as finalist from 5,000 blogs – voting starts on January 5, 2009

San Francisco, CA, January 5, 2009 – CleanTechies, the world’s leading Internet platform with jobs and information for the CleanTech space, is nominated as “Best Business Blog” by The Weblog Awards, the world’s largest blog competition. The CleanTechies Blog (http://Blog.CleanTechies.com) was selected from over 5,000 open and public nominations in 48 categories and is one of ten nominees – and the only green blog – in the category “Best Business Blog”. Starting on January 5, 2009, votes for CleanTechies can be cast on The Weblog Awards website: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-business-blog/

Founded in 2008, the CleanTechies Blog has quickly gained traction in the CleanTech community, reaching thousands of professionals, career changers, students and other environmentally concerned citizens worldwide. The blog covers issues affecting renewable energy, resource efficiency, green building and sustainable transportation. Industry experts write about current trends, discuss clean technologies and policies and provide career advice.

“We are thrilled that the CleanTechies Blog has been nominated for this reputable award,” said Ian Thomson, CEO and co-founder of CleanTechies. “This affirms our goal to provide a platform on which our online community can stay up-to-date on global trends, technologies and current events, share ideas and insights and interact with like-minded professionals not only on a local level but also worldwide.” He further added: “We aim to be the largest and most powerful CleanTech community in the world. Our nomination demonstrates that we already have a relevant impact on our audience.”

The Weblog Awards are the world’s largest blog competition with over 545,000 votes cast in 2007 and nearly two million since 2003. One of the major goals of The Weblog Awards is to expose the world to a wide variety of blogs and to increase readership of all finalist blogs. Nominations for the awards began on November 3, 2008 and closed on November 21, 2008; finalists were announced on December 29, 2008. Voting to determine the winner in each category starts on January 5, 2009 and now ends on January 13, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. (PST) after the deadline was extended by one day.

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