Comments on: 10 GIS Career Tips to Help Find a GIS Job

By: GISGeography

GISGeography — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:45:36 +0000

In reply to Sani Dantuni Bello. Happy to help out!

By: Sani Dantuni Bello

Sani Dantuni Bello — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 17:02:06 +0000

Thank you for these wonderful tips, it’s really helpful.

By: Chakrababu Gundra

Chakrababu Gundra — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:18:16 +0000

Thank you very much for guiding us. Valuable information.

By: Mohd Anas

Mohd Anas — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:54:58 +0000

Thank you very much for guiding us..

By: GISGeography

GISGeography — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:22:48 +0000

In reply to Carolyn. Yes, I personally think it is possible. Remote work is quite common now (or at least a hybrid of remote working) and I believe will continue after the pandemic. There are some companies who switching to long-term remote work, which can at least save them from the cost of having office space. Last I heard, this includes major companies like Microsoft, Apple, Verizon, and Adobe.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:48:48 +0000

I have a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and currently, I am a technician for a massive corporate company. I hate my commute, work-life balance sucks, and I wish to work remotely. I think GIS is an option for me, but I’m not really sure how to get there. My ideas are to get as many relevant certifications as possible, (Python, Esri, GIS, etc.) and hopefully land a remote position that pays at least 25 dollars an hour. I am also a Mom, so the job needs to be stable with benefits. Is this possible, or am I dreaming? If it’s possible, how do you recommend that I get there?

By: John

John — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:45:42 +0000

Thanks for the practical tips to help me get into the field of GIS. I agree to explore every opportunity as fields like data science and machine learning go hand-in-hand with it.

By: Somnath Dutta

Somnath Dutta — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 15:06:19 +0000

I want to know that age limit of the government job in Geographic Information Systems. Thank you.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:48:22 +0000

Can you explain how marrying soil science with GIS would make someone unstoppable? Thanks!

By: GISGeography

GISGeography — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 02:18:53 +0000

In reply to Diana.

Hi Diana

These are all great questions and I’ll do my best to answer them.

1. Is Python necessary? No. There’s a lot of GIS professionals who can’t write a line of code in Python. With that said, it would certainly help get a job in GIS. Python is at the top of the list for coding languages so it sounds like you’re on the right track for programming language priorities.

2. Does CAD supplement GIS? I don’t think it would supplement GIS. From my experience, most of the work I’ve done with biologists involve your basic field collection. Perhaps with ArcGIS Collector or Survey123. The observations biologists collect often are QC’d and then published in a Geographic Information System. So I haven’t seen too much CAD coupled with biology. But perhaps someone else might chime in the comments section.

3. Drones and GIS are an up-and-coming field. And it really depends on the company you work at if they will utilize them. For example, agriculture may use a drone to collect near-infrared and calculate NDVI. Farmers can use this data to better understand crop productivity.

Overall, I think all of these skills will help you out. Best of luck!