As a student, you will find a good job or internship if you:

-- Work hard and take strong steps along your path to success
-- Form good relationships with people in your community
-- Help employers solve their problems
-- Volunteer to help with local projects

Resources on this page can help you make progress to a good paying position. Learning to use geoscience knowledge and information technology tools while working on projects in your community is a great way to start on your way.

For example, rural Alaskan students have helped out on local or regional cultural atlas projects. Often, students begin with small jobs on projects, and then advance into internships and paying jobs as they gain more experience, skills and education.

Youth Employment Opportunities

Students use GPS to map a dog sled race course near Nenana, Alaska Photo: MapTEACH

• DNR Student Intern Program (includes graduate, undergraduate and high school student internships)
• Alaska Youth Work Permit
• Geospatial Technology-Apprenticeship
• USGS Student Employment (college-age)

Guides

• Creative Job Search Online Guide (from Minnesota)
• Job Search Guidance - The Riley Guide

Search Sites

• Alaska Job Center Network
• DICE - search "GIS"
• Directions Magazine Careers
• GeoCommunity Career Center
• GeoJobs
• GeoSearch Inc.
• GISJobs.com
• GIS Cafe Job Board
• GIS Job Clearinghouse
  Map of jobs
  
• GIS User Careers
• CareerBuilder
• Monster

• USA Jobs (US Government)

** Help MapTEACH improve the list of Employers by sending us an email.

Alaskan Employers**

Cartographic landscape visualization of Alaska's Denali National Park Image (public domain) : Heinrich Berann

Business

• ABR Inc. - Fairbanks/Anchorage/US)
• AeroMetric (Aeromap USA) - Anchorage
• Alaska Street Master - Anchorage
• Allied GIS - Anchorage
• Blue Skies Solutions
• C R W Engineering Group - Anchorage
• The Crazy Mountains Joint Venture - Anchorage
• ENSR Corporation - Fairbanks/Anchorage/US/International
• GeoNorth - Anchorage, Portland
• Geographic Resource Solutions - Anchorage/Arcata, CA
• HDR - Anchorage/US/International
• Lead Dog Consulting: Worldwide GIS Mapping - Anchorage
• Lounsbury & Associates - Anchorage/Wasilla
• North Wind - Anchorage/US
• R & M Consultants - Anchorage
• R&M Engineering - Juneau
• Resource Data, Inc. (RDI) - Anchorage/Fairbanks/Juneau/Boise

Government

• Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources
  
  • Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys
  • Land Records
• Alaska Fish & Game
• Alaska Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
• Alaska Science Center (USGS)
• Alaska Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
• Minerals Management Service (MMS)
• National Park Service-Alaska (NPS)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service-Alaska
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska
• US Fish and Wildlife Service - Alaska Region
• US Forest Service
• US Geological Survey

Native Corporations

• AHTNA, Inc.
• Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
• Bering Straits Native Corporation
• Bristol Bay Native Corporation
• Calista Corporation
• Chugach Alaska Corporation
• Cook Inlet Region, Inc.
• Cook Inlet Tribal Council
• Doyon, Limited
• Koniag, Inc.
• Sealaska Corporation
• Sitnasuak Native Corporation
• Thirteenth Regional Corporation

NGO's

• Alaska Conservation Alliance
• Alaska Native Resources