• 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!

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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