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bestgisjobs writes "BestGISjobs advertises hundreds of GIS jobs within the UK. Visit http://www.bestgisjobs.co.uk/ and find your dream GIS Position today." Obviously, this is of interest for those in the U.K. or ready to move there. I copied below several previous entries on other geospatial job related tools which is useful outside the U.K.
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Martin Ouellet writes "GeoContact is born in the late summer of 2007. The Web site aims to provide:
1) A tool to connect people who share the same professional goals or passions.
2) A method to identify yourself as a specialist or expert in a specific domain;
3) A way to track or find past colleagues with similar profiles;
4) A search tool that can be used to find persons with a specific expertise.
GeoContact is free and entirely based on OpenSource technology combined with Google Maps API for the location-based part of the subscription. Make sure to visit the GeoContact web site on a regular basis since a lot of exiting new functionalities such as a search engine and the addition of more background layers (Virtual Earth, Yahoo) will be available. Since GeoContact.org has been released recently; feel free to send comments or suggestions to geocontact@oricom.ca" I copied below some other geojob finding tools and discussions.
1) A tool to connect people who share the same professional goals or passions.
2) A method to identify yourself as a specialist or expert in a specific domain;
3) A way to track or find past colleagues with similar profiles;
4) A search tool that can be used to find persons with a specific expertise.
GeoContact is free and entirely based on OpenSource technology combined with Google Maps API for the location-based part of the subscription. Make sure to visit the GeoContact web site on a regular basis since a lot of exiting new functionalities such as a search engine and the addition of more background layers (Virtual Earth, Yahoo) will be available. Since GeoContact.org has been released recently; feel free to send comments or suggestions to geocontact@oricom.ca" I copied below some other geojob finding tools and discussions.
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Vector One and Spatial Sustain shares theirs thoughts in a double entry named "If you were thinking of a career in the geo-industry, which area(s) would you be considering and why?" From V1: "Personally, I would choose the GIS/CAD spot right in the middle. I really see the future as designing infrastructure, whether that is BIM or other approaches and then scaling it into other projects to form communities that GIS becomes the modeling and spatial analysis tool for. We want highways for cities and between them. We want clean water for many locations and uses. We want efficient buildings for local and regional reasons." From SS: "It has never been as easy as it is now to create a new business in the geospatial space. Practitioners and developers are also finding it much easier to stand up tailored solutions with interfaces, performance and data that meet and exceed customer expectations. The amount of available geospatial data, coupled with much easier means to distribute and collaborate, is fueling an industry resurgence.
It’s a great time to become involved in the geospatial industry, and I can think of many areas where I’d love to be starting a career."
I copied below several previous related stories.
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