The Recruiter's Outlook

February for solar and energy storage professionals means RE+ Northeast (strangely mis-timed with a blizzard this year!) and Intersolar North America. If you’re one of the 15,000 renewable professionals who attended one of these coastal mainstays in our industry, you may have heard a little buzz about urgency as we head into the start of […]

January has a very different feel than December, and not just because most of the US is in a deep freeze. The decorations are packed away, inboxes are filling back up, and everyone in renewable energy is settling into the realities of the new year. I’m catching up on conversations that paused in late December […]

It’s a quiet post-holiday afternoon in New Jersey, as I sit in my recliner next to my drying-out Christmas tree, getting ready to write my monthly Recruiter’s Outlook. I can hear the snow melting off my rooftop solar panels on this particularly warm day on the east coast. In digging through the archives of my […]

On November 20, 2025, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) published the 15th annual National Solar Jobs Census. Accepting an invitation from the IREC, I had the opportunity to preview the new data on jobs from the past year, and write the foreword to provide my perspective on the state of the energy storage and […]

As Nvidia becomes the first company in history to top $5T in market value (purely on data center revenue!) and Amazon lays off 14,000 people because of AI related efficiencies, I have flashbacks. Having cut my teeth in talent acquisition during the telecom bubble and burst, there were countless companies whose valuations far exceeded their […]

Last week, at the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump called climate change “the greatest con job.” He insisted that climate science and global warming were “created by stupid people”, and said that Europe is being devastated by renewable energy. By “devastated,” Trump must have been referring to the record-breaking production by renewables that accounted […]