Urban & Regional Planners
Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of jurisdictions, such as towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.
Also called: Community Development Planner, Planner, Planning Director, Urban Design Consultant
Knowledge:
- law and government
- public safety and security
- management
- customer service
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
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
Personality:
Description: 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
Technology:
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Geographic information system GIS software
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS
Analytical or scientific software
- Citilabs TRANPLAN
- ESRI What if?