jobs for geographers
where to find job listings
related to regional and international geography
Remember that work within the
UW Regional Geography and International Development Option can include and
build on:
- population growth and
migration
- development history, theory
and practice
- urbanization processes
- economic development and
global interdependencies
- resources, hunger, health
and poverty
Consider what skills and
abilities are being asked for in these jobs and consider what you'll need
to do (ideally, while you are still in school) to prepare yourself for
other jobs like these. Then, build your resume to demonstrate your relevant
and related skills and experience.
Skills and abilities developed in this focus include:
- data gathering, processing, analyzing
- library research techniques
- writing skills
- macroeconomic and trade analysis
- critical thinking skills, especially those related to analyzing and
interpreting within and across various scales: local, regional, national,
global
- cross-cultural analysis
- ability to work with census and other government data
- ability to display data analytically in tables, graphs and charts
- migration and demographic modeling and analysis
- ability to interpret and critique diverse theoretical perspectives
- infrastructural and policy analysis
- service learning leadership and citizenship skills
- skills at constructing and working with case studies
The background and skills
developed in this focus are in demand by state and federal agencies, as
well as non-governmental agencies and privately-owned consulting firms
and other research-oriented organizations.
Students working in this
area have pursued careers as:
- foreign service officers
(US State Department)
- consultants and analysts
for non-governmental organizations
- foreign trade specialists
- travel agency managers,
owners, consultants
- country analysts
- college and university
professors
- demographers
Note: Many of the following links do not contain job listings, however,
as most are "resource" sites, they usually contain links to
associations and organizations that do list jobs. Remember that a primary
goal in job search is to find the people (and organizations) doing the
kind of work you want to do. Then you can approach them proactively to
seek work with them.
Non-profs and International
Agencies
Careers
in the Common Good
Job search site for many non-prof and international organizations, all
of which need employees from time to time, and which have job listings.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/CCGood/srch.html
Directory of NGOs
Lists those in official relations with WHO.
http://www.who.int/ina-ngo/
The Foundation Center
Job Corner section of Philanthropy News Digest now posts current, full-time
job openings at U.S. foundations, grantmaking public charities, and nonprofit
organizations.
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/jobs/
InterAction
Coalition of 160+NGOs, including relief, development and refugee agencies,
all of which need employees and most of which have job listings on their
own sites.This gives you a great place to begin looking.
http://www.interaction.org/members/index.html
NonProfit
Times
Employment Marketplace - classified "ads" for the non-prof world.
http://www.nptimes.com/
opportunityNOCS.org
Source of source of nonprofit jobs and career opportunities. Allows keyword
searches.
http://www.opportunitynocs.org/index.html
The Non-Profit Career
Center
Listing of resources on the Web for starting a career or getting a better
job in the nonprofit sector.
http://www.idealist.org/career.html
International Resources
Global Business Web
Resources, news, discussion forums, etc.
http://www.gbw.net/
Global Careers
For information on careers in transportation, commerce and finance. Site
offers job search capabilities and fee-based subscription to their job
information.
http://www.globalcareers.com/
Global Trade, Transportation
and Logistics links
UW program page with many relevant links
http://depts.washington.edu/gttl/links.html
International Development Network
Information resources for sustainable development. Also contains job listings.
http://www.idn.org/
Institute for Global
Communications
Site contains listings for advocacy jobs of various stripes.
http://www.igc.org/igc/gateway/jobvol.html
Also consider searching among
the links under:
More listings to come! (try
again next week)
(And, if you know of sites that should be listed here, please let me
know!
Email me.)
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