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Wall Street analysts were riveted on January 20It fills in the summer to empty in the winterThere is no interest to do more than thatAt the right time to attack the French marketInstead of launching a second EPR nuclear reactorFrom May 2008 the banks refuse to lend himThe US company suffers while unquestionablyTruth beyond the Rhine is not error in belowThe character is hardly exhilarating to playThat important bottle provided whether drunkenness wrote MussetThe green economy professionals hold their breath. Barack Obama reiterated before Christmas that the stimulus plan to create 3 million jobs over the next two years would be his priority. The focus will be on jobs in the industry of biofuels, renewable energy and independent of the oil and coal transportation, as well as in the green building technologies and services of energy conservation. "We all look forward to see what the Obama administration is going out of his hat his first 100 days", said Jose Tengco, spokesman for the manufacturer and installer of Akeena Solar solar panels. In the immediate future, "green" jobs are not immune to the crisis. "We receive 75 per month since October job opportunities." "We were 150 on average over the first nine months of the year", says Peter Beadle, GreenJobs recruitment site. Professionals in the sector have identified two priorities for the future President team: inject capital in the financing of projects to compensate for the drying of the credit since October and investing in education to expand manna from labour necessary for the growth of green industries.
In number of sectors, such as accounting, marketing, computer science, or public relations, the transfer of skills from nearby industries, such as energy or information technologies can help in the immediate future to compensate for the lack of professionals with a green experience, says Dawn Dzurilla, founder and President of the firm Gaia Human Capital recruitment. Indeed, "companies engaged a fierce competition to recruit senior executives, including at this time of recession real talents are rarely part of layoff plans and the current uncertain climate but hardly encourages those who already have a job, to take risks," said Anita Hoffmann, partner of the recruiting firm Heidrick & Struggles and author of a recent report on the war for talent in renewable energy. Or need a little time before the first promotions of the training specialized programs, such as the Global Energy Program at the University of Colorado or the dual MBA master in sciences of the environment of Stanford, arrive on the market.
Trained on the job
As to the technicians of the installation of solar panels or wind turbines maintenance, they are generally formed by their employer. "We take many candidates with experience in the construction and we are training on the job", shows Jose Tengco. General Electric client companies can also benefit from ad hoc programs offered by the manufacturer. In Silicon Valley, the regional professional Chamber SolarTech opened this year its training centre. And the States and municipalities multiplying initiatives. But, in the medium term, the lack of training appears as the main bottleneck of the green economy.
During his campaign, Barack Obama promised that the United States would invest $ 150 billion in renewable energy and environmentally friendly vehicles over 10 years, thus creating 5 million jobs. He also appointed to the position of Secretary of labor the Democrat Hilda Solis. Its Green Jobs Act, passed by Congress in December 2007, Bill to allocate $ 125 million to the formation of 30,000 people per year. The road is still long to create millions of jobs. As promised money soon to come. But the mobilization is organized. Under the leadership of Van Jones, principal author of the Green Jobs Act, the Green campaign for All gaining followers and asks that the Federal Government committed 1 billion over four years to train 250,000 people..