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Employment
Jobs
with the Department
Jobs
external to the Department
Future Career
Opportunities
Jobs
with the Department:
Positions continually arise within the Department
at the professor, lecturer, researcher, post-doctoral fellow,
graduate and undergraduate levels. Please consult specific faculty
members about discipline-specific opportunities, or contact esse
@ yorku.ca for general information.
Jobs
external to the Department:
Notice of career opportunities are constantly being made to the
Department from a broad range of industrial and institutional
partners. Please consult specific faculty members about discipline-specific
opportunities, or contact esse
@ yorku.ca for general information.
Future Career
Opportunities
Earth Science:
Positions for employment in applied geophysics and geomatics
are being advertised at this time and the future is especially
promising in the geomatics area (also see Geomatics Engineering
below) and in the combined areas of exploration and environmental
assessment. Our graduating students who have chosen not to pursue
graduate studies are currently finding employment in companies
doing geomatics or geophysical work. At a recent geomatics conference
it was reported that there are an estimated 34,000 geomatics employees
in Canada, whose activities generate $4.5 Billion annually to
the Canadian economy.
Provincial legislation was established for registration of “Professional
Geoscientist” in Ontario in June 2000. Our Earth Science
specialized honours curriculum, taken with care, complies with
requirements for membership. Students wishing to become eligible
for such a profession are encouraged to discuss their course selection
with an advisor. It should be noted that admission to the ranks
of the Professional Geoscientist requires accumulation of appropriate
employment experience in addition to formal academic training.
Geomatics Engineering:
Job opportunities for graduates exist within various industries
including federal and provincial government agencies, forestry,
agriculture, mining and mineral exploration, surveying, land information
systems and resource management, oceanography, hydrography, environmental
management, urban planning, public utilities, coastal zone management,
transport, navigation, defence, medical epidemiology, pollution
management, geomarketing, planning of education and health facilities,
dispatching and emergency measures, economic and financial projections
and insurance.
Over the last two years, our geomatics engineering graduates
have had many job opportunities and options to choose among different
employers. They have obtained employment with geomatics companies,
and with the provincial government in Ontario and elsewhere in
Canada; these jobs were offered and in hand well before their
graduation from our program! The booming economy in western Canada
has also attracted a number of our graduates who now work for
the oil industry in the Province of Alberta. Those graduates who
chose to pursue graduate studies and specialize in certain areas
of geomatics, joined either our graduate program or other programs
around the country. All these job placements have the strong characteristic
of diversity and multidisciplinarity and contribute to all socioeconomic
activities of the country.
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