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A good starting point to help is the center for international disasters.

http://www.cidi.org/reg_off.htm

Thanks Jason for your open minded perspective.

Hey Amy, yep its actually $100 for two months for non-members. A rip off in my opinion. But I’d gladly hand it over if I thought my odds were greatly improved. I agree with everything your saying. I remembered you telling me about your experience with it, so I thought a broader poll here on Land8 might be a good idea before letting them take…[Read more]

I hear you Jennifer. But it only takes one firm out there to see it and become interested. I guess the way I see it is, you can take that $100 and send out resumes/portfolios to a limited number of firms. Or you can put it up on the board, and have it visible to any firm in the world who chooses to look. I just wish ASLA would give you 12 months…[Read more]

by Nick Aceto 13 hours ago: “it is a pretty passive and roundabout way of pursuing a career in my opinion”.

Again guys, this would be true if it were one’s only method of job hunting. But as I clarified earlier, it’s probably not a bad way of boosting your odds, as a compliment to a larger, more comprehensive job search. I’m not sure if it’s…[Read more]

I think it all depends on where youre at in your career and whether you have ‘free’ access to the board or not.

agreed.

I had my resume on there for probably a year with no emails or calls. I see NR’s point, but I also see the point in at least having a spot there for exposure. If someone sees your name on the first page there, then does a google search and brings up your website and land 8 profile they might be interested in contacting you. Otherwise, it is a…[Read more]

It’s a great resource. I’ve gotten four or five inquiries off of it, two of them led to interviews (but did not work out, unfortunately, wrong type of office for my specialties). Many potential employers are trolling or “cherry picking” people, meaning, they are not advertising positions, but rather hand-selecting applicants. The only way they…[Read more]

Wow, the empathy and sense of community here is just flowing.
Not too long ago, on another site, you were angrily posting about leaving planning and how it had jilted you and what other careers you thought you could do. You’d go on about your interviews and job search efforts and everyone would politely listen and offer advice. How quickly we forget.

Emily,
I have a client here in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo) who is rebuilding their home that burned in the 07 fires. They want to irrigate 2 level areas on the property with a grey water leachfields. I did some research and the state of California has guidelines as part of the California Plumbing Code (CPC). Here is the link http://www.documents.dg…[Read more]

I’ve used it in past years to post my resume and been found there by employers looking.

Right now, though, I think it is a waste of money because all an employer needs to do to find tons of job candidates is sift through the pile of resumes collecting in their circular file or stick their head out the door and ask “any landscape architects…[Read more]

I disagree. Try telling that to the people who’ve been contacted after posting their information.

There are currenly only 63 resumes on the site. (Often only 3 or 4 listings per state). To assume that a person who posts on there is lazy is to assume that this is their only method of searching. I see it as another tool in one’s arsenol. Another…[Read more]

I’m not sure if it will be the same across the country, but the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Stormwater Manual has just undergone a massive overhaul in how a site is managed for stormwater. New definitions, new requirements and new calculations across the board. I’m not exactly sure when this will hit, but I believe it will…[Read more]

didn’t see Food, Inc. yet – it’s on the list! I really got upset reading how they are warping studies on the effects of GMO seeds…It’s reallly almost too late – they are everywhere, and in everything….

Here you go…http://www.land8lounge.com/jobs

I imagine you saw Food, Inc.? They had a part about Monsanto’s actions. Infuriating. Yes, let’s genetically engineer pesticides into the foods we eat. It’s not like we’re drinking glyphosate or something.

Well, I see you are getting a lot of help with editing but not much with writing. Discussions groups are like wheat fields. You need a thrasher to get the grain from the shaft. I would like to hear more about what you are looking for in the way of articles. You know what slant, length, content, format etc. I might be interested and I think I can…[Read more]

About time. It’s not just their environmental impact that gets to me. The things the large corporations do to farmers are pretty nasty sometimes.
I just saw Michael Pollan speak at WSU a couple of nights ago.

I am not sure if it was the economy (lots of unemployed/under-employed LA’s), or just the desire for a new, different, alternative, and relevant landscape architecture publication, that drove the great response, but I am quite pleased.

I know I said “2” regular contributors, but I couldn’t say no to the following folks…

Noah Billig – Regular…[Read more]