Newly minted geographers often face a conundrum when starting their professional careers due to a perceived dearth of opportunities and applications explicitly requiring geographic inquiry and expertise. Graduating geographers navigate the job market with trepidation, competing with other applicants that have professional licenses, titles, and undergraduate degrees that are conventionally more well-known.
However, geographers can draw from their multi-disciplinary backgrounds armed with skills and experiences that are useful in a wide career domain.
This talk from Geography alumnus Miguel “Migs” del Rosario, entitled Geographers in a corporate world: Making an impact recounts and traces his experiences during his time at the UP Department of Geography and his professional progress up to the present day. Each step of his career was and is shaped by the unique approach that geographers often utilize in their day-to-day work to make a difference in their respective fields.
The Heo/Geo Lecture Series is proud to present Migs' talk on Friday, 4th of August 2023 at 5:00PM. Sponsored jointly by the UP Department of Geography and Philippine Geographical Society in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Department of Geography as an academic unit, the Heo/Geo Lecture Series is a forum for geographers, spatial scientists and geography-adjacent individuals, researchers, and members of local communities to share, discuss and converse on a range of geographically-informed topics. Research findings whether final and completed or preliminary and in-progress are welcome. Career-related presentations such as Migs' talk aim to broaden the appeal of geography as a field of inquiry whether to pursue academic jobs, work with communities, or as a lifelong practice.
Migs completed his bachelor’s degree in Geography in UP Diliman in 2014. Presently, he heads Business Development and Marketing at Geospectrum Marketing Services, a Filipino distributor of geospatial data and satellite imagery. Concurrently acting as Vice President of Geospectrum Analytics Services Inc., he spearheads the company’s retinue of subject matter experts to transform geospatial data into actionable information for applications in Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Environment, Governance and other sectors. Previous to this, Migs has also been a Science Researcher for UP and DOST’s projects revolving around the use of LIDAR remote sensing for flood modeling.
To participate in this Heo/Geo lecture series, click the link below to register: https://tinyurl.com/5yrepwyt
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