We are launching the first Climate Career Accelerator for Southeast Asia!

The Climate Career Accelerator is a 4-week guided program (1 hour per week) designed by the Jobs_that_makesense Asia team to support individuals across Southeast Asia who want to align their careers with climate impact.

Here to help you make sense of how the climate sector really works in Southeast Asia, equipping you with the tools you need to develop your career path with more clarity, concreteness, and confidence.

Registration open for December cohort

Format

👉🏻 Online

👉🏻 15-20 pax per cohort

👉🏻 Weekly online resources (toolkits, video-testimonials, and lectures)

👉🏻 1-hour weekly gathering

👉🏻 Weekly homework

This program is for you if:

👌🏻 You're seeking more purpose in your career and want to transition into a climate-related role

👌🏻 You're already working in the climate sector but feel unclear about your next step or long-term path.

Wether you're currently employed and exploring new opportunities, actively transitioning, or simply curious about the climate sector in Southeast Asia, this program will equip you with the clarity, tools, and confidence to move forward with purpose.

Registration open for December cohort

Who is it for?

👥 Mid-career professionals looking for their next professional adventure

🌱 Individuals transitioning into the climate & sustainability economy

🚀 Talents in marketing and communications, engineering, tech, project and program management, research, sales, people operations, finance and administration, as well as CSR and sustainability strategy

What you’ll get

🌞 Clarity around your career goals and aspirations

📚 In-depth knowledge of the Southeast Asia climate sector and how it works

⚙️ Practical tools for your job search (CV, LinkedIn, elevator pitch)

⭐ Confidence to navigate your professional transition

🙌🏻 Community of peers who share your values and ambitions

🖌️ Personalized support tailored to your profile and needs

📚 About the program

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Your Buddies

💐 Weekly modules

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Week 1: Understanding the SEA Climate Sector

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Week 2: Shaping Your Career Transition Project

Objective: Build a solid understanding of the climate sector in Southeast Asia by exploring its key industries, the wide range of organizations involved, and the real impact they create.

🧞‍♀️Guest Testimonies

Hear directly from leaders and practitioners working in green enterprises, NGOs, ESG consulting, philanthropy, and more. Their firsthand stories will offer practical perspectives on the sector’s diversity and evolving opportunities.

🎒Hands-on Activity

Use a guided framework to define your own vision of the climate sector. Identify the types of organizations and impact models that resonate with your values and ambitions.

Objective: Get a clear understanding of the wide variety of roles within the climate sector, and challenge common misconceptions about career paths, compensation, and working conditions. Reflect on what gives you a sense of purpose at work, and learn how to effectively transfer your existing skills into climate-related roles.

🧞‍♀️Guest Testimonies

Hear inspiring career transition stories, both bold pivots and gradual shifts, from career coaches and professionals who have successfully brought their expertise into the climate space.

🎒Hands-on Activity

Use a guided framework to define your own vision of the climate sector. Identify the types of organizations and impact models that resonate with your values and ambitions.

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Week 3: Crafting a Stand-Out Application for the Climate Sector

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Week 4: Defining Your Action Plan to Bring Your Career Goals to Life

Objective: Understand how hiring works in the climate space, learn how to craft a CV that reflects your values and motivation, and build a strong personal narrative to support your career transition.

🧞‍♀️Guest Testimonies

Insights from HR professionals on what they look for in candidates, plus advice from personal branding experts and career coaches with experience in purpose-driven recruitment.

🎒Hands-on Activity

Update your CV to align with sector expectations, craft a compelling career transition story, and map out a shortlist of organizations that reflect your values and aspirations.

Objective: Design a clear and strategic approach to your job or training program search. Learn how to network effectively within the climate sector and set up a structured follow-up system to maintain momentum and motivation.

🧞‍♀️Guest Testimonies

Hear from networking experts and professionals who successfully entered the climate sector through creative, non-traditional pathways.

🎒Hands-on Activity

Build your personalized application tracker, craft impactful outreach messages, and develop a concrete action plan and timeline to guide your next steps.

✒️ Programme Format

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Weekly Masterclasses

Available to watch anytime

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Homework & Tools

A weekly test designed to spark reflection and clarity

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Testimonies & Conversations

Inspiring career stories, tips and advices from climate leaders & employers

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Weekly one-hour online gathering

Peer-to-peer support

💬 What participants from the Europe cohorts are saying:

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"Loved the insights from the makesense team, and the guest speakers that they have curated! It was insightful to learn about the various types of roles within the sector, and the trends seen by practitioners in SEA specifically. That is definitely a gap worth filling!"

- Alana Goh

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"It actually clearly defined how I want to move forward. It tackled all parts of what I needed to transition."

- Krishia Pauline Ellis

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"Meeting new people from diverse backgrounds working on a common problem."

- Kruthika Eswaran

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"I appreciated the salary guidelines that we were able to access and I hope the makesense team can improve on salary mirrors for each country's impact sector. This helps us protect our economic interests while allowing us to make social and environmental impact. Thanks for the guidance."

- Xinyuan Wong

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"The most valuable to me was connecting with different professionals around me and learning from them."

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"Honestly I loved the first two modules where you brought a LOT of clarity on the climate space as a whole. I think it is a sector with a ton of opportunities but when doing research on your own it is difficult to identify where we best fit, and you truly helped me identify that, so thank you!"

- Maud Lavalou

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"The CCA rejuvenated my career transition into climate, giving me clarity on what paths I should seek to accomplish my goals."

- Dexian Wang

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"The frameworks to help us structure what path we are interested in and how to talk about it has been very useful. I have also appreciated the variety of interviews showing paths and spaces that I was unaware about. Thank you Makesense team!"

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"Through four weeks of guided lessons, the programme helped me reassess what values were most important to me, and gave me much more clarity in terms of the type of work I wanted to do and what path was most likely for me as I seek to transition into climate work."

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"I gained a lot more insight into how values shape the impact we can make on society and for the environment. I also was exposed to a wonderful range of nonprofits, social enterprises, and sustainability consulting opportunities throughout Southeast Asia, which are part of the network of the makesense team."

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"This program is focused on the Southeast Asian Markets, but the plethora of excellent resources can be used anywhere."

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Frequently Asked Questions

Enroll to the program

By registering, you gain access to:

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Group video sessions: to share your journey with a group of people who, like you, want to find more meaning.

🧑‍🏫 A facilitator who guides you step by step and helps you overcome your obstacles.

🔐 Exclusive content: questionnaires, exercises, practical tools, and 33 expert videos to help you build your transition step by step.

🧰 Guided tools and exercises: to ask the right questions, identify your desires and obstacles, and build your action plan.

In this package, you'll receive:

🎯 3 personalized questionnaires to better understand yourself and clarify your direction.

📝 8+ masterclasses to familiarize yourself with the climate space.

🧭 Provided practical tools to help you get organized and lay the foundations for a solid action plan.

🎥 20+ videos from established organizational leaders and impactful recruitment experts to inspire and prepare you as best as possible.