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Skills that get you hired
GIS (geographic information systems) mapping
Asked for in a lot of ecology job ads. One college course is enough to put it on a resume.
Statistics in R
R is the open-source 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.