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What careers to choose after geoinformatics?
This is a user generated content for MyStory, a YourStory initiative to enable its community to contribute and have their voices heard. The views and writings here reflect that of the author and not of YourStory.
Given the recent rise in the popularity of geoinformatics as a career, an increasing number of people want to choose it as a career. The reasons for this choice are obvious. Geoinformatics is an upcoming career. Being a relatively rare choice, this promises to be well paying and satisfying as compared to many of the other areas. However, the idea of capitalizing on an opportunity to build a career in geoinformatics is possible only if you manage to get your degree from the right place. In the present scenario, the Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics is counted amongst the best GIS institutes in India. The only institute to offer an MSC level Master’s program in Symbiosis, SIG has everything that any good student would aspire for.
The world class pedagogy and the perfect blend of industry interface as well as academic training, the MSC in Geoinformatics is a unique program that focuses on helping students to develop the industry expertise. The two-year residential program ensures that students get optimum exposure at all stages allowing them to lay their hands on first-hand industry insight. Additionally, MSC in Geoinformatics is just one of the programs offered at SIG. In case you are an industry experienced professional, you can also opt for their customized certification programs that are conducted in a relatively shorter duration and give you a direct access to the latest trends and technologies in geospatial sciences.
Careers options!
A world class institution like SIG offers placement assistance. In fact, SIG is amongst the top notch Symbiosis institutes in the country to have a 100 percent placement record ever since the very first year of its inception. This clearly means there are a plethora of opportunities waiting to be utilized in the domain of geoinformatics. However, you must be able to convince the employer by justifying your talent, expertise, and knowledge. Also, you must remember that having pursued the master’s program in Symbiosis clearly gives you an advantage over the other candidates thanks to the industry reputation of the institution.
Agriculture
India is an agriculture-driven economy. However, agriculture has evolved from the good old hand farming days to the modern age of technical farming. Given this evolution, agriculture is a money-making agribusiness model and geoinformatics has a major role to play in this scenario. From soil testing to analyzing productivity from a remote location, agribusiness relies on geoinformatics experts for several details.
IT
There are several software programs and computer applications that are developed with the core concept of geoinformatics. Therefore, IT firms are always on the lookout for people holding an MSC in Geoinformatics to be able to give them a better understanding of the finer details.
Aviation
Most of your airplanes are lost without remote sensing and GIS applications. The aviation industry is growing by leaps and bounds and so is the need of geoinformatics experts to assume crucial roles in this industry.
All in all, geoinformatics is a promising career opportunity guaranteed to be a life changer in the long run.
