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Check out Emily Lorra Hines's cheat sheet for young water professionals!

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Director of the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW) | Water Nerd and Environmental Activist with over 10 years of communications and policy experience

Inspired by Steve Misati's incredible posts for young people in the sector, I created a 'cheat sheet' based on my own experiences for my lecture for the IWRM Masters class at McGill University yesterday! ***Long post - be prepared*** What I recommend: 💼 Places to find a job 💼 (in addition to networking) - Josh's Water Jobs and @Josh Newton - Terra.do - OnePointFive (opf.degree) - Climatebase - In addition to scouring multiple university job boards (notably universities that offer degrees in your sector and getting on the newsletter for companies you're interested in) 📘 Rules for LinkedIn 📘 - Have a full and completed profile - when you add new people to network, introduce yourself. While some people add anyone who follows them, I only add people who I recognize, have mutuals with or have introduced themselves. This is a safety step that I take across platforms. - Join groups and post your own content - Post frequently - the algorithm likes it and people are more likely to see your content 🌟 Volunteering and Opportunities for Young Professionals 🌟 *Note: these are based on my own experiences, and there are so many opportunities open. Also, many volunteer positions require you to pay for travel and or/accommodation which immediately excludes many. I'm aware of this and have tried to add other options as well. - North American Youth Parliament for Water (check out Erica-Lynn Porta and Henry Pitts - incredible people) - Onewater - A FANTASTIC group of people (Christian Fischer) making water stories accessible, engaging and putting them on a global platform. A fantastic place to post your research and experiment with how you do this (photography stories, letters to the sea, videography, etc.) + translation - Water Youth Network - very global, and a fantastic way to connect across the world - International Water Association - has a young professionals program and conference, I believe the next one will be in Calgary -World Water Week - Apply to be a volunteer or rapporteur or for the YSPC (YSPC has accommodation and travel paid) - Climate Cardinals - University-based and cool social content - Opportunities to volunteer at NYC Climate Week and San Francisco Climate Week, and most major climate conferences put on by the UN, including UN-Water 2026 hosted by #Senegal and #UAE THAT'S ALL FOLKS - please message me or comment your own suggestions for young people and let's get this shared, it's internship application season!

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