The short version
Open your profile from the sidebar. It's one long page of sections you can edit: your photo and header, contact info, socials, a short summary, why you're in climate, skills, goals, what you're looking for, work history, and files. Everything you add here fills in your future applications, and it's also what employers see if you choose to be discoverable. Each section saves on its own when you submit it, so there's no single save button to hunt for.
The sections, top to bottom
Photo and header
Your profile photo, background photo, name, and location. Tap the photo to upload one (an image up to 10 MB). The background photo is the strip behind your avatar, and it has its own picker.
You can also share your profile from here. Sharing gives you a public link you can send out, handy for a portfolio review, a mentor intro, or networking.
Contact info
Your email, phone, and location. Your email is read-only here (to change it, see Resetting your password). It's what employers see if your application reaches them. Edit the rest with the Contact Info form.
Socials
Add any mix of LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, and a personal website. Only the ones you fill in show up on your profile, so empty fields stay hidden. Edit them with the Socials form.
Employers see your LinkedIn and personal website by default. Your Instagram, Facebook, and X stay private unless you turn them on for employers in Account & security settings. More in Getting found by employers.
Summary
A short bio, a paragraph or two about who you are and what you're looking for. It's plain text, so no formatting needed. Edit it with Your Summary.
If you leave it blank, your profile shows an "Add your summary" prompt. Filling it in is one of the quickest ways to make your profile feel complete.
Skills
Pick the climate-relevant skills you actually have. Skills help us match you to the right roles, and they let employers find candidates who fit. Edit them with Add Skills.
You can choose from our climate-skills list or add your own. Don't over-do it: focus on what's genuinely true. Somewhere between 6 and 15 skills works well for most people.
Goals
Your private aspirations. Your goals shape what we feature on your Home, like which jobs and which Treehouse reads show up for you. Goals have their own panel with its own add and edit controls, and they never appear on your shared profile.
Availability and preferences
Separate from your private goals, this is the practical stuff: your availability (actively looking, open to work, or not looking), the kinds of roles you want, your work setting, when you can start, whether you're open to relocating, and the climate pathways you're interested in.
These do double duty. They help us surface the right roles for you, and they're what employers match on when they search for candidates, if you've chosen to be discoverable. Setting your availability is the single most useful signal. See Getting found by employers.
Work history
Add each role you've held that's relevant to a climate hire. Every entry has its own editor for the title, company, dates, and a description:
- Add experience opens a fresh entry.
- Edit experience opens an entry you've already added.
- Delete experience asks you to confirm before removing it.
Your work history fills in the Career section of the application form, so the more accurate it is, the less you retype for each application.
Files
Upload documents you'll reuse: resume, portfolio, writing samples. We take PDF, Word, or an image, up to 10 MB each. See Can't upload a file if you run into trouble.
Your saved resume fills in the resume slot on applications. The most recent upload is the one we use, so uploading a new file replaces the old one in that slot.
Step by step: first-time setup
- Add a photo. Even a simple one helps employers connect with you.
- Fill in your contact info. Your phone is optional, and your location helps with matching.
- Write a 2 to 3 sentence summary. Don't overthink it. You can polish it later.
- Add 6 to 10 skills. Pick the ones that are true for you. Climate-specific skills count for more than generic ones.
- Add 1 to 3 work experiences. Start with your most recent, and add more whenever you like.
- Upload a resume. PDF is the most reliable, and this one upload fills in every future application.
- Write your goals. Even a single sentence helps shape what we feature on your Home.
After that, most applications take under 2 minutes each, since the form fills in from your profile.
Sharing your profile
Use the share option in your profile header to create a public link. It shows everything visible on the page: your summary, skills, work history, and socials. Send it to a mentor, a recruiter who reached out, or share it on social.
The link is read-only. Anyone with it can see your visible sections, but they can't change anything.
Good to know
- Each section saves on its own. Open a section, make your changes, and submit. There's no single "save profile" button.
- Skills get you found, not just seen. Employers can filter candidates by skill, so tagging honestly matters more than padding the list.
- Your goals stay private. They shape what we show you on your Home, and they never appear on your shared profile.
- One resume at a time. Uploading a new one replaces it. Use Files to keep several documents (resume, portfolio, writing samples), each in its own slot.
- A fuller profile gets matched more. Roles that match on skills surface candidates whose profiles are filled in, so the more you leave empty, the less you'll turn up.
- You can edit from your phone. Every section works on mobile if you'd rather.
- Say why climate matters to you. The profile has a short "why climate" prompt. It's one of the most human things an employer reads, so it's worth a couple of honest sentences.
- Voluntary disclosures stay private. The optional questions about your background are private to you. Employers only ever see anonymized totals, never your individual answers or your name beside them.
- Referral badges live on your profile. If you've referred friends to Green Jobs Board, your badges show here, with links you can share.
- Your profile and your account are separate. The profile page is what others see when you share it. Your sign-in details, password, and notifications live in your settings.
Related
- How to find and apply for jobs (see your profile fill in an application)
- Getting found by employers
- Writing cover letters
- Referrals and badges
- Tracking your applications
- What's in Treehouse?