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SFOA Green Career VideoS

PG&E Fall 2025 Pilot

 

Introduction - PG&E & Sustainability

Help be a part of the green energy future BY STARTING YOUR career at PG&E

 

PG&E works with CCAs like PCE (Peninsula Clean Energy) That buys clean electricity for San Mateo County

PG&E Career Discussion Questions

What do you want your future career to look like?

  • When you think about your future, what kind of job do you imagine yourself doing?

  • What do you enjoy doing that could connect to a job — fixing things, solving puzzles, helping people, being outdoors, working with tech?

  • What comes to mind when you hear “energy company” or “PG&E”? What kinds of jobs do you think people do there?

  • How do you think companies like PG&E affect everyday life in your community?

 PG&E Green Career Video - Part 1

Activity 1: Green Careers Exploration Quiz

Predict your top 3 Career Interest Areas

Green Careers Exploration Quiz
Welcome~5–7 minutes
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Students collaborating on green tech

Estimated Time: 5–7 minutes.

This quiz blends RIASEC interests (Holland’s six career interest areas) with a brief Big Five personality booster to suggest green‑career categories that fit you. Interests drive most of the result; personality adds a small nudge when scores are close.

  • Method: 12 interest items (RIASEC) + 8 short personality prompts (Big Five).
  • Why these? RIASEC is the standard used by O*NET for career exploration; Big Five short forms are widely used when time is limited.
  • Privacy: Everything runs in your browser. No data is sent anywhere.
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Your Top Matches

Each category shows a 0–100 score based on your interests (primary) plus a small personality boost (secondary). These scores do not add to 100; think of them as “fit out of 100” for each area.

Explore your Top 3

About the method

We use Holland’s RIASEC model for vocational interests (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) as the main signal, the same framework that powers the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET Interest Profiler.

Occupational Information Network (O*NET): The Occupational Information Network is a free online database that contains hundreds of job definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses and workforce development professionals to understand today's world of work in the United States. O*NET Homepage

We add a brief Big Five personality check (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Emotional Stability) to help break ties. Personality contributes no more than 25% of the score so interests remain primary.

References: O*NET Interest Profiler (RIASEC) — O*NET Resource Center and My Next Move. Big Five short forms — BFI‑2 short forms and TIPI (Gosling et al., 2003).

Images are open-license from Wikimedia Commons. Methodology based on RIASEC Interest Areas (Holland, 1985) and Big Five Personality prompts (Goldberg, 1993)
 
 

head to O*Net and enter your “Top 3” Interest Areas in the Search Box to explore careers that might be a good fit for you

 PG&E Green Career Video - Part 2

 Activity 2

PG&E / IBEW Training Programs & Exploring PG&E Job Listings

PG&E Career Dev. Programs Help you get hired

 
 

Head to jobs.pge.com and explore the listings

 Closing Discussion & Next Steps

What did you Think of PG&E Careers?

  • Out of the jobs you saw in the video and the listings, which one seemed the most interesting to you? Why?

  • Is there a job you saw that you wouldn’t want? Why not?

  • Did any of the careers line up with things you already enjoy doing? (Being outside, using tech, teamwork, problem-solving, etc.)

  • If you wanted to work at a company like PG&E someday, what would you want your role to be?

  • What’s one thing you learned today that you didn’t know before about working in energy or utilities?

Feedback

 Please complete this survey after completing the PG&E Green Career Video

(Google Forms Link)