For some industries keen to get their career pathways message in front of school students, it can be a matter of elbows out or bust.

For the clean energy sector, it's a hard reality.

Inspiring the next generation of talent necessarily means a tough time finding a way into the classroom.

Education syllabuses are not particularly accommodating for career awareness, though that is starting to change, according to MCB Business Partners chief executive Duncan Burck.

"It takes a lot of work to land in school, in the curriculum, when there's a lot of things you've got to compete against," he told AAP.

Australia is in the middle of a rapid transition to an energy system powered largely by solar and wind, a massive undertaking that needs tens of thousands of extra workers to execute smoothly.

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