find me a job!

[KyleT]

suggestions for finding a GIS/Geospatial job? :banghead:
anyone have connections?
mainly searching in denver because seems like thats a good epicenter for geoint. (other than VA) and is a good spot for the wife to work.

and, whats up with people not calling back and general poor communications? kinda makes me not want to pursue some companies if thats how they are to potential hires... this is all new to me, for all my other jobs, i have walked in or they have called me.

our lease is up here in 29 days so...:ack:

 

[LRflip]

I know this doesn't help.

I did two years as a Geography major in College. Dealt with a lot of GIS and specifically ArcGIS the program. Nobody could understand that I was going to be more than a highschool geography teacher when I graduated.

I got out and went Construction Management. The two people I do know with a geography degree never did anything with it.

one works at Dicks sporting goods and the other at American Eagle.

Good luck to you!

 

[Slappy]

What about working for one of the park agencies in Colorado? They're always hiring for GIS positions and the pay is pretty good. You could go National, State, County, or a private land authority.

 

[knewsom]

Welcome to the modern world. College doesn't matter. Skills do. Yeah, I'm a prick. In any case, good luck.. Shit, I'm drunk.

 

[AU_88]

Welcome to the modern world. College doesn't matter. Skills do. Yeah, I'm a prick. In any case, good luck.. Shit, I'm drunk.

I guess my engineering degree doesn't matter than... But Auburns Mechanical Engineering program did have and undergrad, not graduate student, get offered $100k+ straight out of school... But I guess college doesn't matter. Right, maybe if your from Cali.

 

[robertf]

I guess my engineering degree doesn't matter than... But Auburns Mechanical Engineering program did have and undergrad, not graduate student, get offered $100k+ straight out of school... But I guess college doesn't matter. Right, maybe if your from Cali.

Just 1? happens all the time with petroleum engineers


Kyle
whats your degree in? You got work experience doing this or are you a fresh graduate? I've got some friends that do the arcview gis hippy cad thing, I'll check if they know who is hiring.

 

[knewsom]

Like I said, it's about the skills you learn. Not the degree. Anyhow, I'm hammered, so no offense.

 

[mjbrox]

I am also on the job hunt.

you need to contact as many recruiters as possible. When a company or orginization posts a job, they probibly get 100's of resumes. So it is all about timing when you submit yours and it is just dumb luck.

If you get a good recruiter and they are impressed with you they will deem you a high value placement or some shit, then could actually call companies they know to pitch you.

But typically, they are just a good gateway to the interview.

Join diffrent groups from your industry on linked-in. Then search the members of the group for recruiters.

Good luck

 

[Ed Cheung]

I was on a job hunt a year and half ago, experience is 1/4 of it. The other one 1/4 I say is luck and the remain part is how you get people to pick your resume and call you and how you did on the interview.
So on a job hunt, you are pretty much like a salesmen, selling yourself.
If you have interviews with recruiters/ head hunter, always ask them for the feedback on the interview, like what point is good and what not to say. So you will do better on the next interview.
There was a recruiter once told me this and i find it very useful, " Interviewer/ hirer, had seen many people with the same experience and qualification like you, so you got to have a few points that makes you stand out." Same rules apply to your resume.

Good Luck!

 

[ptschram]

Job hunting and interviewing these days has changed drastically.

It used to be that education and experience were what got you hired. Now it seems as though it is how well you score on the psycho-babble mini-personality inventories that applications and interviews have become.

Every professional job I have gotten came from an advert in the paper.

 

[ArmyRover]

The army is hiring

 

[KyleT]

"articulated geosciences"

basically a 3 genre interdisciplinary program. main focus was geology (more weather, climate, and 6hrs of arcgis) minor focus was on comm and english. comm focus was on presentations and management styles. practical classes, no theory. english was writing. creative, technical, poetry, blah blah. only one lit class as a requirement.

and as part of the interdisciplinary program i had to take 3 classes teaching us how to integrate ideas from related and non related subjects by finding common ground or "making" common ground (not making it up, just changing perspectives) between ideas and how to research and present these ideas.

all my experience is cars before college. and some construction shop stuff. so i am a "fresh" graduate....

i found i kinda liked gis too late in the game. we only offer 3-4 classes on it....

i never do well on those tests.... i failed (or passed depending on how you look at it) the wal-mart one.... i think to much for myself i guess.....

 

[MarkP]

First, start your own "company", a simple LLC. Try and get some small contracts that are manageable for your size. As a minimum you will get to know contacts at specific companies.

Second, find the local and/or national professional groups organized around the field you are interested in. Priortize the local groups as they are close to the action. Join one or two, make a few presentations. Most importantly - network.

Third, continue above until you determine the company you want to work for and meet the right people who will call HR and tell them to contact you for a job. At this point you are working a job from the inside, not from the outside and an unknown.

 

[ptschram]

i never do well on those tests.... i failed (or passed depending on how you look at it) the wal-mart one.... i think to much for myself i guess.....

In 1996 I was driving a taxi cab as I couldn't find an engineering job. I got an interview for a position as an electro-mechanical manufacturing engineer. Basically an all-around tech who could take things apart, put them together and build manufacturing cells around them.

I took an aptitude test and was told the results had to be sent to the test company as I "missed so few". I suspect I got them all right.

Then I had to take the psychological profile test. I was given a booklet with two lists of identical words and I was to circle all of those on one page that I'd used to describe myself, and on the facing page, all of those others had used to describe me... I figured that in fits of passion or rage, all of them had been used in both settings.

When I interviewed with the plant manager, he told me my psychological profile showed that I was depressed and wouldn't e a team player. I so badly wanted to stand up and scream at him "I have nine years of college and I can't find a job and I'm having to drive a taxicab, wouldn't you be depressed?!".

In another situation, I had a company call me to offer me a job. Part of the process was yet another psycho-babble inventory-on line no less. I went to the site, answered the first question and decided I'd had enough. The next day, I called the HR woman and was told this was how they made sure they weren't trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. I calmly told her that any company that used that process was not one I would work for. She became insulting and I informed her that SHE had called ME to ask me to come work at her employer and that I was declining her offer. I don't think she'd ever had anyone do that before.

It's no wonder I can't keep a job.

 

[ptschram]

First, start your own "company", a simple LLC.

For small entities with a single share holder (or in the case of LLCs, members holding units) there is no justifiable reason to go to the expense and trouble of establishing an LLC.

Sole proprietorship is far more suitable for tiny entities.

 

[Mongo]

Try the mine industry also...They are opening new copper mines and re-opening old ones at least here in AZ, and are hiring in the technical areas

 

[az_max]

Also cities, counties and states. We ramped up our GIS dept a few years ago to integrate more departments into one system. We had 4-5 people working on it (as many sysadmins as we had for the entire city) before we lost some positions to attrition.

 

[I HATE PONIES]

All this GEO talk has me wondering where Leslie has been.

 

[KyleT]

thanks for the input.

i have been scouring the various city and county sites as well as companies and job sites for positions....

lots of PHD openings...

 

[az_max]

thanks for the input.

i have been scouring the various city and county sites as well as companies and job sites for positions....

lots of PHD openings...

Don't forget, in Gov't parlance PHD means Push Here Dummy!
:rofl: