Career paths in Spatial Information

Are you interested in a career that is both wide-ranging and cutting edge? Want to work in a discipline that is constantly in demand by a huge number of different industries world-wide? Spatial information professionals and practitioners work in a vast array of fields, including:

Aerial Photography :: Agriculture :: Archaeology :: Architecture :: Biology :: Cartography :: Civil Engineering :: Computer Science :: Community Planning :: Conservation :: Disaster Management :: Ecology :: Economics :: Education :: Entertainment :: Environmental Science :: Forestry :: Geodesy :: Geography :: Geology :: Geometry :: Graphic Arts :: Hydrology :: Industrial Engineering :: Manufacturing :: Medical Research :: Meteorology :: Military Planning :: Mining :: Natural Resource Management :: Physics :: Real Estate :: Retail :: Satellite Imagery :: Sociology :: Surveying :: Tourism :: Transportation :: Utility Management :: Urban Planning

Resources

• The universities page holds more information about undergraduate & postgraduate spatial courses at CRCSI universities (go to the Higher Education link from the portal homepage).
• The Information section of this portal includes freely-available areas of spatial information resources including external Links, Interactive Spatial Tools (such as Google Earth and Virtual Earth) and Videos and Documents.
• More links to web sites of interest are below

Job Search Websites

The GIS Jobs International and Spatial Jobs Online websites are based in Australia. All sites list jobs from around the world. Some of them also include a facility for job seekers to post their resumes and/or extra spatial career resources.

Spatial Education

The links below have information about training for a spatial career. You can also look up information within this portal for school resources and higher education.

Sample of Job Ads

To give you an idea of the demand for spatially trained people, here is a small sample taken from hundreds of Australian job ads (April 2007):

Description	Location
Licensed Surveyor ("above industry salary, full maintained company vehicle, phone and laptop")	Gold Coast, Qld
Land Surveyor	Cairns, Qld
Underground Surveyor	North Queensland (fly-in, fly-out from Townsville)
GIS staff: geologists, surveyors, GIS graduates or students	Sydney, NSW (casual part-time or full time)
Junior Surveyor - Land Development	Geelong, Vic
GIS Officer	Sunshine Coast, Qld
GIS Professional, permanent Government position	Canberra, ACT
GIS Analyst/Officer	Melbourne, Vic
GIS Software Engineers ("$77-$89K")
Spatial Information Systems Specialist	Melbourne, Vic
Spatial Information Coordinator	Brisbane, Qld
Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation, Department of Defence	Canberra, ACT

Hint: to see a list of current spatial jobs, try a specialised job search site like Spatial Jobs Online.