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Google Maps Mania have an article about tools to find a job that uses Google Maps. From the small article: "Jobster joins career websites like Monster.com and SimplyHired.com who are all moving toward this new trend of "Google Mapping" where available jobs are located. Google Maps Mania keeps a list of employment-related websites with Google Maps functionality here."

The Cartography blog refers and discuss a CNNMoney article about a jobs survey. From the blog: "In my opinion, this is news as anyone who is one knows that being a cartographer is the best job around. However, CNNMoney has released the results of a survey of 166 jobs and found that, in terms of compensation, cartographers and photgrammatists rank 83rd, smack in the middle." What do you think? Is it hard to find a decent job? Are job conditions ok? Are you happy with the geospatial industry?

Richard Serby writes "GeoSearch, Inc. is the oldest and most trusted source of personnel recruitment in the geospatial sciences. It is the place for employers seeking new talent and for prospective candidates interested in new employment opportunities. Visit us today! http://www.geosearch.com/"

The last poll about the so-called web-mapping war granted Google Earth/Map as the foreseen winner (40%), with Open Street Map surprisingly close second (33%) and the users themselves not too far (14%). Yahoo! Maps, Live Local and others did poorly. I liked emj's comment: "About this web-mapping war, is there really a war in mapping? To me it seems to be more of a war about tying as many services together as possible, the constant struggle between Yahoo/MS/Google. Not about offering the best map." The new poll is about your idealistic work environment.

Ogle Earth just launched his own tool for finding neogeography jobs out there, here's the job listing. See the related stories below and you'll find Ogle Earth is not the first to offer such a tool. From the launch post: "It works like this. If you have a neogeo job that needs doing, you can post it for two weeks at a dollar a day. I've set the price far lower than on any other job board, as I'm more interested in seeing if this takes off. (On the other hand, paying something deters spam posts.)"

VerySpatial offers a short useful list of geography and geospatial careers resources. We mentioned geospatial jobs seeking in the past, see related stories below. In addition to these, you can add the job announces for FOSS GIS list (wiki page). A part of the VS entry: "Geospatial jobs: GIS User jobs listings, GIS Jobs, GIS Jobs Clearinghouse, GIS Gig, GeoSearch, Inc "

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.

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.

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.