Vida GIS: Navegando na Mudança de Carreira

JesseCloutier

Mais cedo ou mais tarde, todos nós passamos por mudanças. Talvez você tenha se mudado recentemente para uma nova organização ou assumido um papel de liderança no seu local de trabalho. Talvez seu trabalho seja o mesmo, mas você está abordando suas tarefas de uma maneira nova. Seja escolhida ou inesperada, transições como essas podem levar a novas perspectivas, novos desafios e oportunidades de crescimento.<\/P>

Queremos ouvir sobre uma transição significativa na sua carreira que você tenha vivido em sua jornada GIS.<\/STRONG> O que motivou a mudança? Houve dificuldades a superar? Quais lições você aprendeu como resultado?<\/P>
Compartilhe alguns detalhes nos comentários abaixo! Se alguém na Esri Community ofereceu suporte que ajudou você a fazer essa mudança, não deixe de marcá-los para que saibam o impacto que tiveram.<\/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!