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Geography Job Resources
How to write an effective geospatial & GIS cover letter
Methods of finding GIS and geomatics jobs
A Geospatial Manager’s Perspective: 20 Tips for the Successful GIS Job Seeker
Careers with geography, by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
What do cartographers do, where do they work?
What Can I Do with a Major in Geography? (Concordia)
What can I do with a degree in Geography? (Simon Fraser University)
Types of Jobs in the Geography Field
Leadership
How to make academic meetings more productive
No Formal Leadership Training? No Problem!
How can you make yourself invincible at work?
Finding a Job, Interviews
Five tips for students preparing to enter the job market
Dean reflects on trends in today’s faculty candidates
9 questions to ask in a job interview that make you look smart
5 effective ways to boost your self-esteem
Staying positive on the job market in the face of constant rejection
Tailor your cover letter to stay out of the reject pile
Coping with disillusionment for those unable to find full-time academic work
Careers Planning: How to Choose a Career for Your Personality (YouTube)
Career Development Tips - Three Steps To Successful Career Planning | HR Crest (YouTube)
Early Career Faculty
Making the most of a pre-tenure sabbatical
How to face the sting of being passed over as an internal candidate
How to spend the rest of the summer preparing for the next academic hiring season
Faculty writing groups can help increase peer support, productivity: opinion
Don’t be neurotic: UK students’ message to professors
Four tips for managing upward in higher ed
Failure is the most fulfilling part of being a professor: IHE contributor
Institutions must find new way to evaluate nontenured faculty in politically charged era
When to speak your mind as an untenured academic
Networking
I don't drink. How do I avoid missing out on networking at after-work socials?
Networking: Why you only need a core group of 10
7 Networking Tips for Introverts, Extroverts, and the Socially Awkward
10 Tips For People Who Hate Networking
18 Easy Conversation Starters For Networking Events
LinkedIn’s Top Networking Tips for Women
5 Networking Tips From Three Great Women
Career Planning and Changing Careers
3 tips for discovering yourself
How do you know when it’s time to leave your job?
Learning how to say “no” to extra demands on your time
How to leave your job gracefully: IHE contributor
Seize opportunities as they arise, even when “not ready”
Are spurned departments likely to hire someone who has turned them down in the past?
What to do when you are no longer interested in what your degree has trained you for
Mental Health
The essential behaviors in healthy, successful people and organizations
Spend time with your pet to reduce stress
How to prepare your time-off getaway oasis
Save your health, boost your career
How to manage when work stress leads you to overeat
How to create the best of times at work
Video: The right way for employers to approach mental health
5 effective ways to boost your self-esteem
Perfectionist students need to beware of mental strain: Dal psychologist
Academic culture is too dominated by “the dreaded should”: IHE contributor
Knowledge translation as remedy to grad school mental health issues
University students not taking time to exercise even when given incentive: UBC study
Tips for achieving work-life balance as a busy administrator
6 tips for managing personal stress
How to survive your terrible coworkers
The Canadian Association of Geographers does not necessarily endorse this content, nor is it exhaustive.
Some links may be broken. Last updated: April 2018
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