Tuesday, May 2. 2006

One Good Turn

I'm sure this has happened to many of you: someone well meaning hooks up with you and talks careers. You say: "You should talk to x." Well, a few years ago I hooked up one such person with another acquaintance (it turns out we are all Penn Staters, but from different years) and I learned at the ESRI Business GeoInfo Summit that connection yielded a job with the City of Boston.

On a similar note, I met a very energetic senior from McGill. She'd paid her own way to the event and is still teasing out how she'd like to apply GIS and geography in her career. She's waiting on hearing from ESRI-DC about a summer internship (note to ESRI-DC: hire her!) but I have no doubt she'll be presenting at a conference about her work in no time. (Other folks looking for GIS internships might try the non-profit www.eco.org, The Environmental Careers Organization. I got my first job through ECO and can't say enough about the group.)

Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 16:21 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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