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job websites for geographers to explore

We hope that you have had time to explore the sample job descriptions to broaden your ideas of the kinds of work you can do with your degree in geography. Both the sample job descriptions and the websites to explore are listed according to the way the curriculum is divided here at the UW at this point in time.

Please note that these divisions are not meant to be limitations, but rather, starting points for thinking about jobs in these general categories. Be aware that other institutions probably use other divisions (that also may change), but you can use these categories to get a sense of the range of potential for work that geographers may do.

Jobs in Economic Geography can include:

• business and marketing geography
• regional development and location studies
• global trade and transportation
• economics of resource use and land use
• real estate valuation and location analysis
• political economy of the developing world
• urban economic studies

Jobs in Geographical Information Systems can include:

• GIS analysis
• map sources and map errors
• urban and transportation GIS analysis

• natural resource and environmental analysis

Jobs in Regional Geography and International Development can include:

• population growth and migration
• development history, theory and practice
• urbanization processes
• economic development and global interdependencie

• resources, hunger, health and poverty

Jobs in Society and Environment can include:

• resource geography
• cultural and political ecology
• health and environment
• GIS and resource analysis

Jobs in Urban, Social and Political Processes can include:

• urban geography and urban processes
• political geography
• social and population geography
• medical geography

Other (more local) options for finding jobs in the Pacific Northwest

Geographers:

getting jobs
planning careers
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