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jobs for geographers

where to find job listings related to urban, social and political processes

Remember that work within the UW Geography Urban, Social and Political Processes Option can include and build on:

• urban geography and urban processes
• political geography
• social and population geography
• medical geography
• development history, theory and practice

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.

Remember that skills and abilities developed in this focus include:

• data-gathering, processing, analyzing
• library research techniques
• report-writing skills
• mapping skills
• graphical analysis and display skills (graphs, charts, tables)
• ability to work with census data
• ability to use land use data (parcels, zoning, etc.)
• demographic analysis, public policy analysis
• urgan-regional transportation analysis
• ability to interpret and critique perspectives, news stories and the effects of various forms of information technology
• cross-cultural analysis of development processes and practices
• service learning leadership and citizenship skills

Public social agencies (in city, county and state government) and private organizations (consulting firms and real estate/land development firms, for example) provide many employment opportunities for geography students in this option, often with initial internships and traineeships for their future permanent employees.

Geography students have pursued careers in:

• urban and land use planning
• community development
• transportation planning
• real estate development, management and sales
• research design and analysis
• rural planning and economic development
• polling, data gathering services
• demography
• health care analysts

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.

Environment

1000 Friends of Oregon focus is on land use -
http://www.friends.org/

Health

Online Resources in Economics and Health/Welfare
Resources include links to government and private organizations, publications and collections of information.
http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/webeci.html

Planning

American Planning Association job board
http://www.planning.org/jobs/choice.htm

Cyburbia Cafe Planning and Architecture Resource Directory, including job listings for planning and landscape architecture
http://cyburbia.ap.buffalo.edu/pairc/cyburbia_cafe.html

Urban Planning Jobs
Some job listings, along with links to other sources of jobs, and best of all, links to a series of articles on careers in planning.
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/7442/jobs.html

Also consider searching among the links under:

• economic geography
• GIS
• regional geography and international development
• society and environment

More links to come!

(And, if you know of sites that should be listed here, please let me know!
Email me.)

Geographers:

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planning careers
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