FASTEST Way to Learn Modern GIS and ACTUALLY Get a Job

Cannot emphasize how helpful your content has been. GIS can be a bit of niche field and online info is not always as prevalent as other tech fields. I have basic fundamental skills from my undergrad but I am also the only GIS person in my office so it can be a bit overwhelming at times how much I still have to learn.

I am a masters student of geoinformatics in Germany and will start into my GIS career soon. Thanks for your helpful advises, Matt!

Very VERY early in my GIS career and this video is exactly what I was looking for. Keep up the good work for the people dude.

I'm so thankful that I found ur channel. It really is a big help for me, especially I'm only starting my career. Thank you!

As a recently retired GIS ANALYST/… I can’t agree more with this perspective, although I might add FME, ( the Swiss Army knife) to the tool kit. Thanks again for sharing!

Good to find a channel like yours Matt! I'm a "failed" astrophysicist (no jobs in the field) switching over to a GIS career now. I have years of experience analyzing data, including GIS, but didn't know how to translate this into experience for the private sector. Had a GIS technician job, but just got fired on a whim and back to square one. Now I just want to become an analyst, so this is all helpful advice, but how long should I committ to training and practice before I start reapplying? I'm thinking 3 months min (like coding bootcamps) but 6 months feels way better.

Thankyou for your amazing roadmap video. your videos are awesome. I just wanted to know when I will understand that I have learned enough to progress into next tool. I mean at first you told us to learn QGIS, so I wanted to know that which topics should I cover while learning QGIS and similarly for other tools which topic should I cover. thank you again for sharing such insights.

Your channel is by far the best I've seen for GIS development. Like, it's crazy how much.

Really digging deep into my education in ESM focused geography with a minor in geospacial science & technologies and learning on ArcMap and ArcPro is a sharp learning curve… but skyrockets your understanding of how to represent and manipulate data Cal Poly Humboldt! Go Jacks! 🌲💛💚

As always, your video answered many of the burning questions in a simple, understanding format. I do have a question; how do you build a portfolio or showcase your work on Linkedin if you work for a company that deals with government clients. My venture into the GIS realm is a bit funny. I was hired as an executive assistant, but after 6 months, I started doing GIS. Before that, I didn't even know what GIS was, never thought geography was that important in school, except to learn where cities and places are for travelling. Anyway, all this was like more than 2 years ago. My knowledge has expanded from creating maps on GIS Cloud to QGIS to python and PyQGIS, SQL and now Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT. I have been using Chat GPT a lot these days to automate many of the mundane aspects of GIS. During these two years, I have also solved a lot of challenges for my company and clients, mostly because it is just me doing all these things. But due to NDA and security, I can't show any of the work online, like a screenshot of the maps or the process or even python scripts. In this case, how do I build a portfolio? Do I create dummy projects?

Thank you for your sharing. Great to learn as person with no gis background

Thanks for this video, Matt. Great resources and pointers.

I'm so glad to find this channel, this video is very useful, thanks Matt🤙

Getting a job without ESRI training or experience is a rough one in the industry - imo

Subbed and liked. Awesome. Tahnks so much.

Thanks for this information, glad to know Thor's brother in also involved in this field.

Sir can you make a full playlist from basic to advance on gis🙏

This is a great video ... I'm trying to land a job in or outside Upwork to get more experience with these tools (Python-GeoPandas, PostGIS, Pandas, NetworkX, OSMnx). However, I'm not sure that companies inside the USA are actively hiring people who live outside of the USA. Thanks a lot for these helpful videos.

Great video. I am going to share this with my GIS class.

Thank-you for the video. Something that I am noticing with people in the surveying field is that they know what ArchGIS is, but they don't know what QGIS is. I got asked. "Do you have any experience with ArchGIS ESRI?", I said "NO, But I have experience with QGIS." I realised that the person who asked this doesn't know what QGIS is. I Only just looked up the differences between the two and found that the main difference is, QGIS is opened sourced.