GIS Life：キャリアチェンジの航海

JesseCloutier

遅かれ早かれ、私たちは皆変化を経験します。最近、新しい組織に移ったり、職場でリーダーシップの役割を担ったりしたかもしれません。仕事は同じでも、新しい方法で取り組んでいるかもしれません。選択したものであれ予期せぬものであれ、このような転機は新たな視点や新しい挑戦、成長の機会をもたらします。<\/P>

GISの旅路で経験した重要なキャリアの転機についてぜひお聞かせください。<\/STRONG>何がその変化を促しましたか？克服すべき困難はありましたか？その結果、どんな教訓を得ましたか？<\/P>
以下のコメント欄で詳細を共有してください！Esri Communityの誰かがこの変化を支援してくれた場合は、その影響を伝えるためにぜひタグ付けしてください。<\/P>

JesseCloutier

I’ll share a memory of my own to start things off. Back in 2022, an Esri recruiter reached out to me because the Esri Community team was looking for a Community Manager for this online community. I had related experience leading a team overseeing large social media communities for a B2C company. When the recruiter told me that Esri was a GIS company, funnily enough I had to say: "I don’t actually know what GIS is."

That was the start of my GIS journey.

Of course, it turned out I did have some sense for what GIS was. I just had never heard the terms “GIS” or “Geographic Information Systems” used in daily life before. Examples they provided quickly connected the dots for me—a big one being the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 map so many of us saw repeatedly as an information resource throughout the pandemic, and which ran on ArcGIS.

It’s no spoiler that I did take the job with the Esri Community team where I get to work alongside generous, smart colleagues who support efforts that in many cases make an enormous difference in the world. Beyond getting to help maintain and grow Esri Community as a location where GIS professionals around the globe collaborate, find answers to questions, and share enhancement ideas that improve Esri software, I also work closely with my teammate @BriannaEttley to tell the stories of our members who use ArcGIS and this Community to achieve all kinds of meaningful outcomes across industries. Getting to learn from your stories is one of my favorite parts of this job and every one of them deepens my understanding of how GIS impacts our lives!