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adriatic04

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it's not what you know but who you know. Get out and network and meet people with varying backgrounds and ask to meet their friends, and their friends. Six degrees of separation exists, you'll be surprised what comes out of it, you won't realize it until you land the job and look back on the experience.

edit: also, job searching requires being out from behind your desk. Go on about normal activities (working out, etc.) keep your mind active and put yourself in places to meet people. Many job hunters sit behind the desk too much, sit around and wait, and wait.
 
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MarkP

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Personally I would stay away from the public sector because it will undergo significant downsizing. In addition most benefit packages and associated defined-benefit pension plans are upside down, likely to be reset in the near future, so you cannot look at them as part of the job evaluation.

Many jobs are found from the inside, not from contacting HR from the outside. Professional jobs have local organizations/groups and meetings. Find them and attend, resume in back pocket. Network, network, network ......


Edit add: Public sector cuts will intensify in 2011 and 2012
 
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KyleT

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adriatic04 said:
it's not what you know but who you know. Get out and network and meet people with varying backgrounds and ask to meet their friends, and their friends. Six degrees of separation exists, you'll be surprised what comes out of it, you won't realize it until you land the job and look back on the experience.

edit: also, job searching requires being out from behind your desk. Go on about normal activities (working out, etc.) keep your mind active and put yourself in places to meet people. Many job hunters sit behind the desk too much, sit around and wait, and wait.
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Im working now... Back at the stealer. Cashier. On the service drive for crappy hourly...... Started the day after class was out.

I have been writing tickets and selling jobs. Much exceeding the typical hs girl duties usually found...
 
adriatic04

adriatic04

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thats cool. Hard to do while on the job but talk to all the people you can and let them know you are looking for xxx type of job. They might know someone who knows someone.

I was in banking 2 years ago, financial advising. I am doing something completely different since then, all had to do with telling people I was looking and willing to talk about anything, not just financial, I had a lot of good conversations and a lot of stupid conversations but it all pays off.
 
brian4d

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knewsom said:
Like I said, it's about the skills you learn. Not the degree. Anyhow, I'm hammered, so no offense. :)
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Until your sector goes tits up and your in the hunt again. The degree helps in many more ways than your giving it credit for. Most importantly gets you noticed by the HR staff... Not sure if I'm right but these types of comments usually come from dropouts...
 
KyleT

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Two Cold Soakers said:
GPS would walk right in.
Military is one of the few remaining respectable *.gov jobs.
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well, a few of the jobs are pseudo mil. one is based at an afb...

and thank you all for the input.
 
chris snell

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I have a BS in Geography and I work in IT. Then again, I didn't get my degree to work in the field, I used it to earn an Officer's commission in the Army.

As others have mentioned, there are lots of GIS positions with local and state governments. Start poking around on city/county/state websites and look at their job postings.

GIS in the Army exists but it's quite small. Geospatial units fall under the Corps of Engineers. The need for Officers in Geospatial is minimal. Most of the real work is done but Warrant Officers and enlisted Soldiers. As an Army Engineer, I got a little geospatial training but nothing like what I got in college. If you consider the military side, google for Army Warrant Officer recruiting.

Another really good option is the civilian side of the Army Corps of Engineers. It's a bit hard to get in the door with the civilian side of the military. My recommendation is to find out the names of the major contracting agencies that do work for the USACE and apply there.
 
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MarkP

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KyleT said:
well, a few of the jobs are pseudo mil. one is based at an afb...

and thank you all for the input.
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Consider them a stepping stone / temporary and be looking for private sector work from day 1
 
ltfuzz

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We use a lot of contractors to teach us intelligence people how to use ArcGIS.

A LOT.

And they get paid A LOT. Especially if you get a gig that deploys you.
 
KyleT

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ltfuzz said:
We use a lot of contractors to teach us intelligence people how to use ArcGIS.

A LOT.

And they get paid A LOT. Especially if you get a gig that deploys you.
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would love to teach/give presentations. edit, in the future.
 
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MarkP

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This is more of a heads up as I don't know if they are hiring or if this is a match subject matter wise but .....

AGI
 
Ed Cheung

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During the time when I was looking for jobs, my daily schedule is like this:
Gets up in the morning, and start looking through all the job posting on sites such as JobsDB, Monster, etc. Have to sent out 10-20 resume on each site. Digging around job agents or companies, find out their contact number, call them and try to find their HR Manager, get their direct email address and send them the resume.

This should also sharpen you communication skill in the real business world.

Re-read and re-write your resume, if you are not getting feedback, something is wrong with it.

I was like getting one interview for every 100 resume I sent out. And a 2nd interview for every 5-6 interviews, that was a lot of resume sending out and interviews before I got a job.






http://us.jobsdb.com/us/
 
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