Career Compass
Browse career pathways that include strategies for gaining critical competencies and experiences during your academic preparation.
Audience Pathway
Students & Early Career
Find your path, build readiness, and move into opportunities.
Find career exploration tools, essential references, workforce-readiness resources, scholarships, internships, fellowships, and jobs in one student and early-career focused pathway.
Find your path
Start with career exploration and find the types of job experiences that match what you love to do.
Career Explorer
Use AGI's Geoscience Career Explorer to find geoscience careers that connect what you love to do with global efforts to build a better world.
Workforce Infographic
See a visual guide to sectors, roles, and transferable skills.
YouTube: Geoscience Careers
Watch AGI's geoscience careers playlist.
YouTube: Geoscience Career Preparation
Recorded guidance on skills needed for geoscience careers.
YouTube: Early Career Professionals in Mapping
A day in the life of early-career geoscientists in mapping-related careers.
Workforce readiness
Build the habits, knowledge, and professional connections that make it easier to move into geoscience work.
Professional Licensure
Learn about state licensure for professional practice and the pathway to becoming a professional geologist.
Learn moreProfessional Certification
Explore the benefits of becoming a Certified Professional Geologist.
Learn moreProfessional Conduct
Read AGI's guidelines addressing common ethical topics across the geoscience community.
Learn moreEngage & Network
Expand your professional network through AGI's federation of over 50 member societies and additional affiliates.
Browse societiesVision & Change
Read the foundational education framework shaping geoscience workforce preparation.
Open frameworkContinuing Education
Expand your skills and knowlege through the Geoscience Online Learning Initative (GOLI) platform.
Explore coursesScholarships
Find funding opportunities to support your academic pursuits.
Career Experiences
Use internships and fellowships to gain experience and strengthen your network, and find your next geoscience job.
Essential resources
Keep these core tools and references close while choosing a program, planning coursework, or building field knowledge.
Geoscience News
Stay current with recent geoscience-related news, economic metrics, and the latest job postings.
View newsDirectory of Geoscience Departments
Search AGI's comprehensive source of information about academic departments, programs, and faculty specialties.
Open DirectoryGlossary of Geology
The most comprehensive reference tool of its kind in the geosciences, with over 58,000 detailed definitions.
Browse GlossaryGeoscience Handbook
Provides a quick reference tool for key metrics and concepts, and serves as a guide to cornerstone papers and recent developments in the geosciences.
View HandbookResearch Databases
Browse AGI's subscription and free-access specialty databases covering regional and topical geoscience themes.
Browse databasesAGI's Geoscience Resources
Digital products tailored for geoscience professionals, researchers, and students.
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