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Think about nominating a profile for the GeoCareers site
Last week I shared a cab in Canberra with a fellow queue
waiter at the airport. It turned out that the lady was a town planner from
Adelaide who trained as a geographer in Perth. Naturally my GeoCareers radar
went up and I asked her if she was interested in being profiled as a geographer at work on the Australian
Geography Teachers Association (AGTA) GeoCareers website. The website was
established back in 2007 to promote to schools and students the idea that many
people we see working in our world, may not be known as geographers but in fact
trained as and are geographers (they just don’t use the name). As schools do
their career and subject counselling it is often said that students need to
think about subjects that lead to a vocation. As previous Spatialworlds postings
have made clear, there are a plethora of jobs for the geographically trained
(albeit not called geography).
The Geocareers site
hopes that profiling geographers doing a wide range of jobs will
encourage students to consider choosing geography as the vibrant, relevant and vocationally pertinent
subject that it is. The site profiles geographers working indoor, outdoors and in the
areas of environmental care, knowledge sharing and research. Those profiled are asked questions such as: prior studies, work description, best aspects of job, career
pathway /opportunities and advice to people considering the career.
As well as providing interesting profiles of individuals,
the site provides information on geography courses around Australia
and a range of resources related to careers in geography.
In the future AGTA hopes to make the site more dynamic through
videos and interactive contact with those profiled (if the profiled are happy to
do so).
Through this posting I encourage readers to forward
themselves or individuals they know who would be candidates to be profiled on
GeoCareers. The GeoCareers site manager, Rob Berry would then make contact asking
the nominated person to complete a GeoCareers questionnaire and provide a picture
of themselves at work. The more profiles
AGTA can muster on the site, the more effective the site can become to
encourage young people to consider studying geography and working in a field
related to geography and/or working in a job where they consider
their geographical skills will enhance their capacity to perform their job. Please
consider this call and let’s see if we can build the best geography careers site
on the web. By the way, considering that many of Spatialworlds visitors are from
all around the world, AGTA is happy to profile individuals from anywhere in the
world. Just send the email contact details to me at manning@chariot.net.au and
AGTA will do the rest.
Another site to support the GeoCareers site is that from the Geographical Society of NSW (GSNSW). The Geographical Society of NSW (GSNSW) has recently
produced four videos of Honours Students from 2012 in a series called "Why
Study Geography?" I believe that it has relevance to geography in
all Australian states and territories. The videos are of students from the
University of Sydney, Wollongong, UNSW and Newcastle explaining why they became
interested in geography, what they love about it, what they have been studying
and how they see geography as being a useful subject for their lives and
careers. The videos are of young people communicating in a manner that is
likely to be received well by other young people, such as prospective students.
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