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Skills that get you hired

• GIS (geographic information systems) mapping

  The single most requested skill in ecology job ads. One college course is enough to put it on a resume.

• Statistics in R

  R is the free statistics language almost every ecologist uses. Learn it in school, not on the job.

• Plant and bird identification

  Naming what you are looking at, fast, is what makes you a field crew leader instead of a field crew member.

• Wetland delineation training

  Short courses that let you do the permit work consulting firms are always short of.