Created for the occasion of the GIS Club at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Career event. Includes resources for a job search in the geospatial professions.

1. Donna Genzmer, GISP
Cartography & GIS Center
Spring 2014
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2.  LinkedIn.com
The “old school” paper resume is out!

3.  Identify somebody’s LinkedIn profile you want
to use as a model
 Add links
 Your “paper” resume
 Presentations
 Create a portfolio
 Get recommendations
 Join LinkedIn groups

4.  Network
 Attend events and introduce yourself
 Get a mentor
 Ask someone in your field to review your resume,
your portfolio, provide job search tips
 Face-to-face is more effective
 Practice interviews

5.  UWM Career Development Center
 UWM School of Continuing Education Career Tran
 UWM Alumni Association, Career Services
 UWM Alumni Association LinkedIn Group

6.  Tips from Jim Lacy, Wisconsin State Cartographers Office
 LinkedIn
 About.com
 Association of American Geographers
 Careers in Geospatial Technologies
 CartoTalk's List of Online Job Resources
 Dice "the career hub to tech insiders"
 Directions Magazine Careers
 Earthworks
 The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO)

7.  ESRI careers
 GIS Career Pathways page
 Job Openings at ESRI
 Internship
 GeoCommunity Career Center
 Geographic_Information_Systems/Employment/ (GIS)
 Geojobs
 Geosearch
 Geospatial Industry Workforce Information System (GIWIS),
industry-wide resources for educators, current and future
geospatial/GIS&T workers, workforce development
professionals, and employers

8.  GIS Cafe Job Board
 GIS Gig
 GISJobs.com
 gis-jobs list https://cms.uwm.edu/gis/resources/email.cfm
 GISL (a UK company)
 GIS Jobs Clearinghouse
 GIS User Careers
 GISL (a UK company)
 Google
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Geogra

9.  Nature Magazine, 22 January 2004, (pdf file)
Mapping Opportunities
 Student Conservation Association
 WI State Cartographer's Office Job listings
 Wisconsin Land Information Association

10.  American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
 Association of American Geographers
 Cartography and Geographic Information Society
 Geospatial Information & Technology Association
 Wisconsin Chapter
 GIS Certification Institute
 The Professional Alliance for GIS and Geosciences
 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
 Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)

11.  ASPRS
 American Society for
Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing
www.asprs.org/Certification
-Program.html
 Exam based
 Specific Expertise
 GISCI
 GIS Certification Institute
gisci.org/
 Point system based on major
components:
 Educational Achievement
 Professional Experience
 Contributions to the
Profession
 Additional Points
 Code of Ethics
 Fee

12.  The exam will become a
component of the GISCI GISP
certification process in the first
part of 2015.
 “The exam is based on the
Geospatial Technology
Competency Model (GTCM) Tier
4, Geospatial Core Technical
Competencies. Because the
GTCM is exemplary, in order to
develop the detail needed as a
foundation for an exam, GISCI is
basing its exam development on
job analysis, a standard practice
of certifying organizations.”

14.  Is it worth it??
 Testimonials

15.  Donna G. Genzmer, GISP
Director, Cartography & GIS Center
Bolton 420
dgs@uwm.edu
414-229-4865
http://www4.uwm.edu/cgis/
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