GIS Businesses and Job Searching
The assignments for the past two weeks had us looking at GIS businesses as well as conducting our own GIS job search to see what could be found. These are the takeaways I had from both assignments. For the GIS businesses, it became clearer that GIS has been an ever expanding field of work that is used by multiple sectors. While I already had already known this, it was eye opening to view ESRI's industries tab and see all the sectors have in depth explanations for what they use GIS for. An example would be from my own internship where my state job falls under both water and Environmental and Natural Resources Agencies. It also helped when conducting the job search the following week. When I was conducting my job search, I knew from last week I wanted to find a job that used GIS but also involved what field of work I'm interested in. As when viewing GIS businesses it was evident that life sciences like ecology do requires use of GIS. ...