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BPI Shares Tools to Empower Industry Recruitment

posted at 2024-10-03 12:57:00


 

Saratoga Springs, NY: BPI is proud to announce a free, federally-funded suite of recruitment templates and tools and a comprehensive 43-page Toolkit to reduce workforce gaps in our industry. 
The pdfRecruitment Toolkit provides vetted recruitment messages and strategies to get the students and the workers you need, as well as links to many other sources for recruitment support. Informed by experts, experienced contractors, and educators, this toolkit will save you time and money while increasing your success. 
The recruitment materials include co-brandable social media templates, high-quality marketing photos of real home performance workers, testimonial videos, template language, strategies for recruitment, and more.
The team created a check sheet to help organizations work through the wealth of resources and strategies. You can also view this webinar on how to use the materials. 
The Recruitment Toolkit and materials are designed to empower recruitment of young people and career-changers into home performance and heat pump careers. Any organization that needs to recruit students and employees into a home performance or heat pump focused training program, business, or agency can benefit from the Recruitment Toolkit. Groups that will find the Toolkit useful include: 

  • Community colleges
  • Training centers 
  • Home performance contractors 
  • Heat pump focused HVAC contractors 
  • State and utility programs 
  • Equipment manufacturers and distributors 
  • Community organizations working in workforce development
 

The new resources were funded by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Residential Workforce Program.  BPI and its partner the United States Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development conducted market research reviews, advisory and pilot groups, student surveys, and solicited input from industry experts to develop the Toolkit.  
 

Principal Authors 

Debra Rowe is President of the United States Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development. She taught energy efficiency and renewable energies for forty-two years and works with over one hundred countries on clean energy workforce development. 

Sarah Hill is an Energy Transition Specialist and Climate Fellow with the US Partnership. They hold an M.S. in Energy and Environmental Management from the University of Connecticut. 
Angela Son is a Climate Fellow with the US Partnership. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and is the founder of The Green Launchpad, a climate workforce accelerator in Brooklyn, New York.

Nancy Kaplan is the Director of Workforce Development at Building Performance Institute. She advocates for residential building science as a career path for young people in training centers and technical and community colleges nationwide.

Kelly Carey is the Marketing and Communication Specialist at Building Performance Institute. She is the principal visual designer of the recruitment materials.