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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
 
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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.

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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.

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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.

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