• Question: What do you work as, and what skills are required to complete it?

    Asked by judo536carr94 on 3 Dec 2025.
    • Photo: Alexander Treliving

      Alexander Treliving answered on 3 Dec 2025:

      Hey, I work as a Local Land & Property Gazetteer Officer. It involves working with geographic data to make sure every place and property has an accurate name, address and location, so we can all find our way around – without address data, we’d be lost…literally!

      To do my job I need good skills in: IT/computers and mapping. It’s also really helpful to have good attention to detail and problem-solving skills.

    • Photo: Vanessa Pilley

      Vanessa Pilley answered on 4 Dec 2025:

      My job is in my profile – but the skills I use are geographical knowledge, IT, communications, organisation, project management, policy, working with others, leadership!

    • Photo: Alan Jones

      Alan Jones answered on 26 Jan 2026:

      My day job is on my profile as I am a Senior Environment Officer. For one week a month I do a duty week for incidents which is a 24/7 responsibility. I may go to a pollution incident and have to work out where it is coming from and how to stop the pollution. I may have to talk to a lot of people to solve the problem. I may have to take water samples to send off to the laboratory and I will have to work out what is the pollution and make the right decisions and choose the right equipment to stop the pollution. If it is a deliberate pollution e.g flytipping I may have have to start a casefile to take the offender to court.

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  • Photo: Paul P

    Paul P commented on :

    I work as an ecologist and a GIS technician, as long as you are interested in wildlife and animals and the environment, you can be an ecologist. I have qualifications, but I know people who are far more knowledgeable than I am with very little academic learning and have learnt what they know on the job because they are passionate about it and have become experts