Urban & Regional Planners

Professional, Science, & Technical

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:

Arts and Humanities

English language

Safety and Government

law and government
public safety and security

Business

management
customer service

Math and Science

geography

Skills:

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

Abilites:

Verbal

communicate by speaking
communicate by writing

Ideas and Logic

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:

Map creation software

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?

Education:

master's degree