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Geography may seem like an unconventional academic option for students familiar to disciplines like medicine, engineering, business, management, and architecture. But the subject can empower you with high-value skills such as strong research and analytical abilities. Beyond these skills, it offers room for creative pursuits, such as digging deep into climate change, landscape diversity, multicultural integration, natural disasters, and urban expansion.
At the same time, a degree in geography sets you up for a lucrative career in different fields. But students often sideline this subject because they hardly understand the value it holds and the opportunities it may open. Let us share a list of options you can pursue as career pathways after gaining a degree in geography.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT
Environmental consultancy is a structured career path that lets you specialise in an area of interest and work as an independent professional. As a consultant, you must ensure that your clients comply with environmental regulations. Typically, these professionals work for commercial and governmental agencies, helping them address a range of environmental issues.
These include desk-based research and fieldwork regarding pollution of an area of land, water, or air. For example, you may work for real estate developers, factory owners, and government departments to provide advice regarding environmental concerns for projects.
TOWN PLANNER
Town planning is another work area you can explore as a geography graduate. Town planners are responsible for the development and management of towns, cities, and rural areas. They ensure sustainable development while considering the needs of local communities and businesses. Working in the role requires in-depth knowledge and analytical skills of the environment.
You can use these skills to improve existing infrastructure, resolve environmental issues, and ensure that new developments align with various policies and regulations. Students planning to become chartered town planners need a postgraduate qualification.
CONSERVATION OFFICER
You can consider becoming a conservation officer if you are truly passionate about the environment and want to do your bit to safeguard the natural world. The career enables you to protect the surroundings and spread awareness about how the local communities can prevent damage.
Another area of interest in the field is sustainable development. These officers help employers (businesses) to promote sustainability practices as a part of their CSR initiative. You can start with a master’s degree in sustainable development and gain hands-on experience in the field to build a career.
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM OFFICER
The role of a GIS officer is apt for students who find data, analytics, and computer systems intriguing. Geographic information systems (GIS) collect, store, analyse, manage, and present complicated geographical information in a simple and understandable form. As a GIS officer, you manage these systems and interpret the geographical data generated by them.
The data is applied in various segments such as meteorology, oil, gas, defence, telecommunications, and transportation for making decisions that benefit the environment. A relevant postgraduate degree, including the GIS module, is the best option to explore a career in this field.
CARTOGRAPHER
A cartographer develops different types of maps and produces charts, spreadsheets, spreadsheets, and travel guides. If you are interested in history, you may restore historical maps and documents. The field also links with new-age technologies such as GIS and digital-mapping techniques.
A postgraduate degree is required to work as a cartographer. You may also pick a specialised programme in an area like remote sensing to get a head start with your career. Some industries offering employment to these professionals are surveying, publishing, and conservation.
CLIMATE CHANGE ANALYST
Climate change analysts dig deep into scientific data concerning the climate and create models and predictions about impending climate changes. As a professional, you need to know both the scientific and policy aspects of the job as they are interdependent.
Typical work activities include analysing data to inform stakeholders, studying fuel usage and proposing alternatives, making recommendations related to climate change, and researching environmental management policies, including sustainability, energy efficiency, and climate change.
METEOROLOGIST
Another interesting job role you can pursue as a geography graduate is that of a meteorologist or a weather forecaster. The role entails in-depth study and research of the weather factors to provide accurate forecasts. For example, you will have to study the causes of weather conditions with information from land, sea, and the atmosphere.
You need to integrate the data with mathematical and computerised models to predict weather and climate patterns. Government, industry, agriculturists, and the public use weather forecasts to make informed decisions.
A geography degree unlocks careers in diverse fields such as education, commerce, tourism, transport, industry, and public sectors. You can work with the armed forces, environmental consultancies, environmental protection agencies, private companies, utility companies, media houses, and information systems organisations. The academic area may not be a typical one, but it does not keep you short of options. In fact, you have better chances of a lucrative career because of less competition.
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