T140 Geology Careers for New Geology Graduates
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
209AB
SELF EMPLOYMENT AS A GEOLOGIST - FIRST KNOW THYSELF
Paper number: T140-12
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Authors
Abstract
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Self employment as a consultant is a rewarding and challenging career choice, providing one is adequately prepared. In addition to marketable technical skills, a successful self employed consultant must assemble a network of business, legal and technical professionals to supplement the consultant’s limited capabilities. This necessitates self evaluation and introspection – beginning with the end in mind. Before embarking on a potentially time consuming and expensive self employment endeavor, one must will fully understand his/her strengths and weaknesses, personality pre-disposition and develop a game plan to maximize strengths while off-setting weaknesses by developing additional skill sets and network of support professionals.
This presentation focuses not so much on the “what you should do” but assumes that the participant has a basic understanding of the “what” but would like practical advice, based on experience, on the “how”.