Donna Genzmer, GISPCartography & GIS Center

Spring 2011

LinkedIn.comThe “old school” paper resume is out!

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Add links Your “paper” resume Presentations Create a portfolio Get recommendations Join LinkedIn groups

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

UWM Career Development Center UWM School of Continuing Education C

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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)

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 (G

IWIS), industry-wide resources for educators, current and future geospatial/GIS&T workers, workforce development professionals, and employers

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/Geography/

Nature Magazine, 22 January 2004, (pdf file) Mapping Opportunities

Student Conservation Association WI State Cartographer's Office Job listings Wisconsin Land Information Association

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)

Donna G. Genzmer, GISPDirector, Cartography & GIS CenterBolton 420

dgs@uwm.edu414-229-4865 http://www4.uwm.edu/cgis/