The SDGs, or Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN, are a way forward for the planet to ease the burden of climate change and extremely high continuous waste discharge that it has carried on its shoulders for a while now. If climate change control and ecological conservation are not key priorities for a government, it is time they became.
Did you know that 78% of customers look for sustainable practices in the company they are buying from? Sustainability is a key pillar for future organizational growth, and a company needs to hire suitable people as it charges down the racetrack to growth, guided by its green vision. There needs to be people who can muster the courage to discuss sustainability issues openly, have the business intelligence to see how it can help your organization, and have the will to follow it through to completion.
There are a couple of hundred roles in your company that could ready your business for sustainability, and particularly the circular economy. A circular economy is when you and your competition embrace a business model where you create, deliver, and capture value to the stakeholders, all the while minimizing ecological waste and damage and strengthening communities in the process. Sounds like a lot. Here is a simple diagram to understand it better.
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A straight line from Take to Waste is the Linear Business Model and the lollypop-like model itself is the Circular Business Model. In other words, Return, Reuse, Recycle and Repair are all important in the Circular Business Model. When several top companies in an industry implement the circular business model and get buy-in from others too, we have what we can call a circular economy.
Below is an example of the circular value chain for manufacturing.
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This was designed by Accenture and gives a better idea of the circular value chain for a manufacturing company. It begins with a circular supply chain, moves to a sharing platform for ownership or access during sales and distribution and further use, and then to product life extension through repair and reuse and finally to recovery and recycling. The entire cycle describes the product-as-a-service concept and establishes the circular value chain in a manufacturing company.
There are several job roles in the circular economy, many of them already familiar to you but requiring a few more additional skills such as negotiation, planning and creativity, all based on sustainability. Let us now look at some of these job roles in the section below.
Local production:
Transportation and Logistics:
Marketing and Sales
Product Use
Repair and Refurbishment
Recovery
Recycling
Research and Training
Sustainability Recruitment needs a precursor to succeed, an organization based on the circular business model and one that derives strength from its sustainability-inspired values. And sustainability is the need of the hour. Did you know that Alp Consulting, an HR consulting company with more than two decades of recruitment experience, can be a great sustainability recruitment partner for you? Talk to us today.