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In a story
written by Victor Godinez of the Dallas Morning News and copyrighted by
Knight Ridder News Service, Mr. Godinez suggests that in the Post 9/11
era “there’s a ferocious demand for technology workers with federal
security clearance.” A check of one of the geospatial industry’s
MapInfo Corporation reported
first quarter results yesterday and indicated that its services
division revenue declined because staffing requirements did not meet
demands for retail service accounts. Mark Cattini, president and CEO,
said that steps were being taken to add staff in retail modeling
It is a pet peeve of mine that college, and especially high
school educators lack the resources to expose their students to the job
possibilities that exist in the workplace. Too often, we funnel students
into curriculum that are simply common pathways to commonplace jobs. A
career in GIS is cer
On October 12th, TechWeb
News reported that, “Offshore outsourcing is expected to grow nearly
20 percent annually through 2008, with the average enterprise sending 60
percent of its application work to low-wage countries by 2009, a market
research firm said Tuesday. The offshore-outsourcing mark
According
to the GIS Certification Institute, “the purpose of the GIS Certification
Institute is to provide those professionals who work in the field of geographic
information systems with a formal process that will:
Allow them to be recognized by their colleagues and peers for having
demo
Although it is not the official end of summer it appears by the mess on
my desk it that my summer is over. Fall tends to be an active hiring
season and we are experiencing a healthy increase in recruitment demands.
DeVry University, headquartered in Illinois, conducted a survey of employers
rec
I received the following letter this week
that I thought I would share with readers. Perhaps some of you have the
same question:
I would like to see an article about how Geographers and
others outside of the GIS field can successfully find employment in the
field with little training. Other tha
The U.S. Department of Labor issued a
job growth profile of the Geospatial Technology sector this past May. In
the report, they cited several reasons why this sector will experience
higher than average job growth over the next several years:
The worldwide market for geospatial technologies h
Employers added jobs at a surprisingly rapid clip for the second straight month in April and the unemployment rate fell, a government report showed Friday, as the nation’s labor market finally showed signs of sustained improvement.
Payrolls grew by 288,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department r
Interviewing for a job can be one of the most uncomfortable events in your
life. It is equally uncomfortable for many managers who must interview
candidates for a position. Preparation can make the task easier.
Here are some questions that are the most frequently asked, according to
a Resume
Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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