Urban & Regional Planners
Community Development Planner, Planner, Planning Director, Urban Design Consultant
What they do:
Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of jurisdictions, such as towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.
On the job, you would:
- Hold public meetings with government officials, social scientists, lawyers, developers, the public, or special interest groups to formulate, develop, or address issues regarding land use or community plans.
- Design, promote, or administer government plans or policies affecting land use, zoning, public utilities, community facilities, housing, or transportation.
- Advise planning officials on project feasibility, cost-effectiveness, regulatory conformance, or possible alternatives.
Arts and Humanities
Safety and Government
- law and government
- public safety and security
Business
- management
- customer service
Math and Science
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
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People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Integrity
- Cooperation
- Dependability
- Analytical Thinking
- Persistence
- Achievement/Effort
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You might use software like this on the job:
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Bentley MicroStation
Map creation software
- Criterion Planners INDEX
- ESRI ArcGIS software
Analytical or scientific software
- Citilabs TRANPLAN
- ESRI What if?
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master's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are likely in the future.
$70,020
per year, on average
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