The Essential Skills to Succeed in a GIS Career

Taken from Michalis Avraam's blog is an interesting (and comprehensive) list of skills that every person interested in a GIS career should see.  Here is an excerpt from the posting, as well as the link to the rest of the article. 


"I have been lucky enough to orga­nize a GIS Day '09 career event at the uni­ver­sity of Washington, joined by Harvey Arnone of city of Seattle, Marty Balikov of ESRI Olympia and Dane Springmeyer, free­lance geospa­tial devel­oper. The dis­cus­sion was titled "What are the essen­tial skills to suc­ceed as a GIS Analyst", and I have com­piled some notes to help with all aspir­ing GIS Professionals out there. Feel free to add more details in the com­ments sec­tion as you see fit.

The dis­cus­sion ranged from skills to suc­ceed in an orga­ni­za­tion using GIS to sup­port busi­ness deci­sions (City of Seattle), ESRI, the lead­ing GIS soft­ware pro­duc­ers and free­lance devel­op­ment using GIS tech­nolo­gies. There is sig­nif­i­cant over­lap for the required and desir­able skills, but also some slight dif­fer­ences. I will list the skills in no sig­nif­i­cant order and pro­vide a brief expla­na­tion. If a skill is some­thing I per­son­ally added, it will start with an asterisk."

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