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VIDEO: Are You Getting Sustainability Hiring Wrong?

Businesses are hiring for sustainability at record rates. But are they hiring the right people, for the right reasons, into the right structures? FuturePlus CEO Alex Smith and Sustainability Executive Poppy Clarke, who spent two and a half years in climate tech recruitment before joining FuturePlus, break down what businesses get wrong about sustainability hiring and what they should be thinking about instead.

They cover:

• Why businesses keep writing job specs for unicorns that don’t exist
• The shift from generalist sustainability roles to more specialised functions
• Whether you actually need a sustainability hire or whether outsourced support makes more sense
• Why giving a sustainability hire responsibility without authority is setting them up to fail
• The gap between technical sustainability knowledge and commercial communication skills