Issued on the 17th of April 2026
In this job report, I cover more about the resume design.
Last week, I covered the Header, the Summary, and the Work Experience.
This week, the last item on the left side of the paper for me is education.
Education
If you are just starting in your career, you will likely want to list your education higher up on the resume. If you are more experienced, there is no need for it to be at the top unless you are leading with a Master's or PhD as the reason for your qualification.
I would suggest putting education on the right or left column, whichever side you have the smaller extra details on. Below are two ideas, but you can move the different sections anywhere you want, depending on where you want to draw attention first.
Key Achievements, Publications, Projects
These are extra sections that can contain whatever else you want to add.
Personally, I do not like listing skills because I feel everyone just puts every single thing in the job listing. It's a waste of space for you. The HR person or hiring manager will just skip the section.
I would instead use these sidebars to further support your case that you are the best candidate.
Here is a section from a different resume. Now I have used this in a few resumes and landed an interview where one of the interviewers asked me to explain the first achievement. So this worked. I had this at the very top, right under my name on the right sidebar. It drew the hiring manager's eye.
The second achievement is just to reinforce the idea that I understand teleconnections (which are very important for energy). The third one matters to me, but is probably a waste of space, and I should rethink what to put in that section.
(Also, the "your achievement" doesn't show up once I save the document.)
Again, these are just some ideas that have worked for me on interviews in the last 2 years. I know it's hard when you are starting in your career to get any response from the hiring company. However, if you are not getting any hits, experiment with changing up your resume to see what works and what doesn't.
The Jobs
USA Jobs
Industry: Operational Meteorology
Title: Weather Risk Communicator
Company: Spire
Work Location: Boulder, CO - Hybrid Local (must live nearby)
Pay: $90,000 - $130,500 USD per year
Benefits: See Job Listing
Degree:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in meteorology, atmospheric science, or a related field. Advanced degrees are advantageous.
Years of Experience:
- 0 to 2+ - Job listing doesn't say, but it does say you should be proven.
Key Skills or Knowledge: (most important to the company)
- Proven experience in weather forecasting, meteorological analysis, or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of meteorological principles, atmospheric dynamics, and weather patterns.
- Familiarity with meteorological data sources, weather satellites, radar systems, and weather station instruments.
- Proficiency in using weather forecasting software, numerical weather prediction models, and data visualization tools.
- Flexibility to work rotating shifts, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.
Additional Skills:
- Professional certifications or memberships in meteorology-related organizations are advantageous.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to convey weather information effectively to diverse audiences.
Who Should Apply?
A low bar to entry means everyone will apply. I think this is a great job in an awesome, but super expensive location. So keep that in mind, the salary helps cover the cost to live there. Without a specific number of years experience you could go in fresh out of university. However, keep in mind there will likely be over 100 applications and you need to stand out.
Research the company like you are doing a white paper on them and learn what types of forecasting or clients they have and then if you have skills similar to the client, emphasize those skills.
About the Location
Boulder and nearby Denver can be a lot of fun. It is very expensive in this area to live, but with the Flatiron Mountains right there and the Rocky Mountains beyond that, there is plenty of outdoor adventure to be had. If you don't like the outdoors, you can still take this job as Denver is a big enough city to provide other entertainment.
Keep in mind, traffic, while not as bad a major global cities can be bad because the mountains reduce how many actual roads can exist, especially Friday or Sunday going into or out of the mountains.
If you don't know what the weather is like here, it's wild. You can go tornado chasing just outside the city and then get heavy snow later that same day. Some of the most dense fog I have ever encountered was east of Denver on I-70 and it is due to the rising elevation from east to west, when clouds are banked up against that, it creates a very thick cloud.
Industry: Energy
Title: Lead Meteorologist
Company: Centerpoint Energy
Work Location: Houston, TX onsite
Pay: None Given
Benefits: See Job Listing
Degree:
- Requires a bachelorās degree in Atmospheric Science or Meteorology, or related field from an accredited college or university
Years of Experience:
- 5+
Key Skills or Knowledge: (most important to the company)
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and monitor weather forecasts and models to provide operational weather forecasts that support operational decision-making during all critical weather conditions.
- Prepares and disseminates operational weather reports.
- Collaborates with groups across the enterprise to assist with integrating weather data or forecasts into their processes (Outage risk models, damage risk models, etc.) to maximize value and ensure forecast information is streamlined and is sourced from the meteorology team.
- With the Manager of Meteorology, develops and maintains situational awareness tools and dashboards that visualize real-time and future weather conditions to ensure the efficient communication of evolving weather risks.
- Working knowledge of coding and evolving AI/ML-related technologies a plus.
- Monitors weather and reports to leaders real-time and forecast weather conditions on a recurring basis.
- Demonstrated experience providing daily, short- and long-term seasonal weather forecasts to promote preparedness, and proactive resource allocation in the case of pending weather events.
- Serves as a subject matter expert for weather-related matters when requested.
- Works to develop and maintain relationship with external partners, such as the National Weather Service and other industry weather groups.
- Stays abreast of advancements in meteorological science, fire weather forecasting techniques, and risk modeling methodologies, periodically attending meetings and conferences.
Additional Skills:
- 24/7 availability to support emergency operations and disasters.
- Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations
Who Should Apply?
If you want to work in energy, working for a utility is one path into energy. Centerpoint, while based in Houston, provides service in Louisiana and Mississippi, along with Ohio and Indiana and Minnesota. So if you have experience in any of those other states you might be able to get an interview. You should know how to forecast and manage operations for tropical weather, severe weather, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and winter events.
This is not entry level, but a lead position instead. You don't need to have leadership experience coming in, but you should be very knowledgeable as a meteorologist with a diverse set of experience across different regions.
There is nothing super tech heavy listed for this role so if you don't have that, this could be a good role for you.
About the Location
Unlike Boulder, Colorado, Houston is super flat and not that expensive. In fact the cost of living is affordable. I lived for many years in Houston and can offer insight for anyone who is interested.
Houston is the 4th most populated US city, but it is much different than other cities in that there is not really any zoning laws. This means you will see small downtowns away from the actual downtown and endless urban sprawl.
Houston is hot and humid in the summer and cool and dry in the Winter. They do get tropical storms and hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms in the winter and occasionally snow. Flooding is a significant part of living in Houston.
Houston is about 45-60 minutes from Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico in case you want to hit the beach.
Industry: Development
Title: Meteorological Software Engineer
Company: CWG
Work Location: Full Remote
Pay: $90,000 per year starting
Benefits: See Job Posting
Degree:
- Bachelor's but a Master's preferred
Years of Experience:
- No specific years given
Key Skills or Knowledge: (most important to the company)
- Knowledge of the following coding languages,
- Cloud: AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda)
- Automation: Git, GitLab, Ansible, CI/CD
- Languages: PHP, Python, Bash
- Storage: S3, MySQL, NFS/EFS, Lustre
- Frameworks: Drupal, jQuery
- Front-End: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Self-motivated
Additional Info
- 1-page Resume Only
Who Should Apply?
If you are a meteorology developer or have strong coding experience this is a job for you. CWG is well known in the energy and agriculture circles and anyone that uses Storm Vista models which they own.
If you are interested, I used to do business with these guys and use their products and can provide some additional information.
This is not a forecasting role. It is remote.
Deadline: 15th of May 2026
International Jobs (Outside the US)
Industry: Research
Title: Team Lead - Sub-Seasonal Team
Company: ECMWF
Work Location: Reading, UK or Bonn, Germany
Pay: Ā£94,251 UK or ā¬113,224 Germany per year
Benefits: See Job Listing
Degree:
- An excellent university degree and a PhD (EQF Level 8) in climate science, mathematics, physics or a related field
Years of Experience:
- 5-10+ years in scientific research with publications
Key Skills or Knowledge: (most important to the company)
- Scientific excellence with a strong track record in research relevant to atmospheric and Earth system sciences
- Experience in operational forecasting research, including understanding how scientific advances translate into forecast improvements
- Domain expertise in sub-seasonal prediction, including both physics-based and emerging machine-learning approaches
- Proven team leadership skills, with the ability to manage, motivate, and develop a group of scientists
- Expert knowledge of atmospheric dynamics and physical climate processes relevant to sub-seasonal timescales
- Extensive experience in designing, running, and evaluating forecast experiments, including the application of appropriate statistical methods
Additional Skills:
- Proven capability to operate and work with physics-based forecasting models in a research or operational context
- Familiarity with machine-learning-based weather forecasting, with experience using ML forecasting systems considered an advantage
- Strong programming and scripting skills, enabling efficient development and analysis of forecasting experiments
- Demonstrated project management experience, including planning, coordinating, and delivering research activities
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to convey complex scientific concepts to diverse audiences
Who Should Apply?
Not a forecasting role, but if you are a meteorology researcher and want to work on the next generation of the ECMWF weather model then this is for you. As the ECMWF shifts more toward machine learning and AI models.
Candidates must be able to work effectively in English and interviews will be conducted in English. A good knowledge of one of the Centreās other working languages (French or German) is an advantage.
Industry: Data Analysis
Title: Quantitative Climate Analyst
Company: Rabobank
Work Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Pay: ā¬4,931 - ā¬7,043 per month, plus 13th month
Benefits: See Job Listing
Degree:
- Masterās degree or PhD in environmental sciences, geosciences or a related quantitative field.
Years of Experience:
- 3+ years
Key Skills or Knowledge: (most important to the company)
- Strong programming skills (Python is preferred) are a must.
- Experience in geospatial data analysis (with GeoPandas/xarray and/or ArcGIS).
- Solid grounding in climate science and environmental modelling.
- A solid foundation of data science and Generative AI is a plus.
- Experience working in cloud environments, preferably Azure (Databricks, DevOps) and version control (Git) is a plus.
- Knowledge or experience of working in climate change and sustainability would be an asset
- Ability to communicate research results effectively by translating complex information to clients and stakeholders and strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships within and outside RaboResearch to capture and translate requests from internal stakeholders to research questions
- Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing. Proficiency in Dutch is considered an advantage.
Additional Skills:
- To be considered for this position you must be located in the Netherlands, re-location is not possible for this role.
Who Should Apply?
Meteorologists in the EU that can move themselves to the Netherlands or someone in the Netherlands with this sort of data background. I'm familiar with the name Rabobank from a previous agriculture meteorologist job as they work with farmers in the food supply chain industry.
About the Location
The Netherlands is flat, with the main urban areas essentially in a swamp and below sea level. This makes it great for cycling everywhere. The weather as you should know is terrible much of the year. They are right off the English Channel and North Sea so it rains a lot like Seattle in the US. The Netherlands, even as tiny as it is, is a big agriculture producer, so in addition to the tulips and windmills, there are a lot of farms.
Final Thoughts
There are currently many jobs outside of the US, many in Europe, but in most cases you need to speak the language of the country where they are located or you need to already live in that location. I decided not to list all of these jobs, but make sure to look at the role in Italy for an aviation meteorologists, several roles in The Netherlands, Meteo France has endless postings as long as you speak French, and there is a role in Singapore right now.
Some areas where you can always find jobs is air quality at a state level or for many large global companies that provide services to states or cities. There are climate analyst roles which are often posted as non-meteorology by people that do not understand that meteorologists understand climate, and so those are more about you convincing them that you know climate stuff.
There are energy analyst roles if you want to get into energy, this is good way to discover companies that are involved in energy trading specifically. If you have data analyst skills, then I would consider applying and then trying to work into a role as a meteorologist.
You can also look at insurance and re-insurance. This industry hires more for data science type roles, but having a meteorology background could be huge because many companies are involved in claims around extreme weather.
There are positions out there and it is your job to figure out how to finesse your resume and your LinkedIn profile in order to standout to hiring managers.
Next week I will dive into cover letters which can be difficult to figure out but are very important to include in your application.
Good luck on the job hunt!
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