Above & Beyond - Climate Tech Recruitment

We’ve gained quite a few new followers recently so we thought we would do an updated introduction to Above and Beyond Recruitment🚀 So, who are we?💭 We started almost two years ago, with the goal to partner with ClimateTech companies, to enable them to attract the talent they need to build a better future. How do we do this?🤔 ✨ Retained recruitment: Whether you’re looking to make one key hire into your leadership team, or build out a whole team of Product or Engineering specialists, we can support you. ✨ Contract recruitment: As your business grows, it can be important to bring in part-time, fractional or short-term specialists to help you on your journey. We can help you source and onboard industry specialists quickly and efficiently. ✨ Advisory services: Whether you want us to form part of your Board of Advisors or whether you want us to offer consultancy services on an ad-hoc basis, we are here to help you build, define and execute your talent and employer brand strategy as you grow. Want to find out more? Check out our brand new website here 👉 https://bit.ly/3lYLj4n #carbonconsciouswebsite #carbonconscious #recruitment #retainedrecruitment #hiring #brandstrategy #talent #softwareengineers #product

A BIG thank you to everyone who has voted so far for Cherry Swayne's session at SXSW London. 😃 Voting closes tomorrow (19th Dec), so if you have a spare minute, we'd really appreciate your vote. VOTE HERE 👉 https://lnkd.in/dCBrXqBf Some more about Cherry's talk: ⭐ Title - Transition Your Career to Save the Planet (session ID 2434) 🔎 Category / Track - People & Workplace In this session, she’ll draw on her 15+ years in recruitment to show you how to pivot your skills and experience, find your ‘why’, choose the right sector to have the biggest impact, tailor applications and your LinkedIn profile, and grow your climate network. Whether you work in finance, ops, customer success or any other team, and want to move into carbon removal, renewable energy, sustainable aviation fuel or another part of the climate ecosystem, you'll see that every job can become a climate job.

It's the final roundup of the year and there's plenty to be proud of and celebrate. 🎉 We're already excited for 2025 and can't wait to see which awesome people we'll meet and what amazing climate breakthroughs will be made. 💪

🎉 We're excited to announce our first event for 2025 🎉 - Building and leading a business to save the planet is exciting but it can also be incredibly demanding. Long hours, high stakes, and the pressure to succeed can take a toll on mental, emotional and physical health. In the pursuit of growth and innovation, founders often prioritise their ventures over their own wellbeing, which can lead to burnout, stress and health challenges. This event is designed to change that. We’ll be joined by two very successful founders, Tessa Clarke from Olio • Share More, Waste Less and Henrietta Moon from Carbo Culture, who will tell us about their first-hand experiences of maintaining balance whilst building their businesses. Cat Totty will also join the discussion to offer her insights as a coach to founders, sharing tools and strategies for achieving balance, resilience and sustainable success. You can register via the link in the comments. 👇 🤔 WHAT? Founder Wellbeing: Cultivating Resilience and Balance to Thrive 🗣️ WHO? Tessa Clarke, Henrietta Moon and Cat Totty 📆 WHEN? Wednesday 22nd January 2025 (6pm-7:30pm GMT) 📍 WHERE? Zoom

💚 GOOD GREEN NEWS (no.19) 💚 - It's our final GGN roundup of 2024. It's been an incredible year and we can't wait to see what 2025 brings! Read on for FOAK, funding and the London Marathon. 👇 📊 Everest Carbon has launched a first-of-its-kind live monitoring, reporting, and verification tool to track the carbon removal effect of enhanced rock weathering systems. 🛫 Lufthansa Group is taking a significant step towards more sustainable air travel by extending its Green Fares to long-haul routes. 🔋 Zitara, creators of battery management software, announced a $17 million Series AA round led by Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund, with participation from Emerson Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Energy Impact Partners and Climate Capital. ♻️ Zinc is leading the pre-seed investment into CellMine, an innovative battery recycling startup. 👣 darwin raised €1.5 million to advance its methodology for assessing corporate biodiversity footprints and their alignment with global standards like SBTN and TNFD. 🧱 Kapture has developed a process to sequester carbon dioxide in concrete by capturing CO₂ emissions from combustion sources and permanently embedding them into the concrete mix as part of a carbon-embedded byproduct. 🚘 AMPECO raised $26 million to further expand its platform that currently supports over 160 clients and 120,000 charging stations worldwide. ⛅ Salesforce has committed $5 million to pre-purchase durable carbon removal credits through Milkywire. This collaboration is part of Salesforce's ambitious $100 million CDR First Movers Coalition pledge. 💷 illumion announced a £2.1 million seed round including investment from Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Parkwalk Advisors and Cambridge Angels.   💰 Valve technology company, Oxford Flow, closed $25 million in their Series C round with BP Ventures and Energy Impact Partners.   ☀️ Solarfix NI Ltd, a panel design and installation company in Northern Ireland, secured £1.5 million in venture funding.   🏠 Innovate UK have awarded a £341k grant to Automated Architecture (AUAR), for a project aiming to overcome the technological challenges that lie in scaling up AUAR’s building system and micro-factory platform to manufacture mid-rise timber housing. 👟 London Marathon Events made its third carbon removal purchase via CUR8. It added 1,935 tonnes of CO2 removal to its portfolio, rounding up the total commitment volume to 2,938 tonnes. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland-based Clyde Hydrogen Systems achieved a significant technical milestone when their decoupled electrolysis process successfully generated hydrogen at pressures exceeding 100 bar, addressing the inefficiency of conventional systems. 🇬🇧 The first large-scale carbon capture projects in the UK have reached a Final Investment Decision with bp, Equinor and TotalEnergies agreeing to begin work on the Northern Endurance Partnership and Net Zero Teesside Power projects.

👩💻 Could your next role in climate be with Risilience or Centre for AI & Climate? Take a look below at the 5️⃣ open jobs we're working on to see if any are right for you. #ClimateTech #GreenTech #WorkOnClimate #ClimateChange #Hiring #OpenRoles

🌍 We need your help! 🌎 The global green talent pool needs to double by 2050 and it’s NOT true that you need to be a climate expert to start your move into a purpose-driven career. Our founder, Cherry Swayne, wants to share the knowledge and advice she's gained from over 15 years in recruitment, at 2025's SXSW London but to do it, she needs YOUR help! ✅ Sessions are chosen via public vote, and we would love your support by voting via the SXSW platform. VOTE HERE 👉 https://lnkd.in/dCBrXqBf Some more about Cherry's talk: ⭐ Title - Transition Your Career to Save the Planet (session ID 2434) 🔎 Category / Track - People & Workplace In this session, she’ll draw on her 15+ years in recruitment to show you how to pivot your skills and experience, find your ‘why’, choose the right sector to have the biggest impact, tailor applications and your LinkedIn profile, and grow your climate network. Whether you work in finance, ops, customer success or any other team, and want to move into carbon removal, renewable energy, sustainable aviation fuel or another part of the climate ecosystem, you'll see that every job can become a climate job.

🥣 Come and enjoy a virtual lunch break TODAY at 12pm (GMT) with Cherry Swayne and Dimple Patel, as they talk about building teams, mentorship, culture and scaling. #BuildingTeams #Hiring #Scaling #Startup #ClimateTech

🧠 Great minds do not think alike 🧠 - Earlier this week, Cherry Swayne had an interesting conversation with Parul Singh about neurodiversity, so it was great to then see previous Climate Pioneers Show guest, Pippa Gawley, talking about it and its impact within climate VC. ✏️ Pippa has written about the roundtable event she organised recently at The Drop, looking at whether neurodiversity is a superpower or a challenge, and you can read the full piece below. 👓 Read Pippa's article here - https://lnkd.in/eGFNTE_G 📺 Catch up on Cherry and Parul's conversation here - https://lnkd.in/ebM6AUFg #Neurodiversity #ADHD #Autism #BuildingTeams #ClimateTech #ClimateVC

🎙️ Cherry Swayne will be back tomorrow with a new episode of the Climate Pioneers Show. She'll be joined by 💚 Sherry White to discuss creating sustainable and repeatable processes to support your hiring plans and your team once you have found the best talent. Tune in at 12pm (GMT), Friday 6th December. 👇 #ClimatePioneers #BuildingTeams #Hiring #Startups