I need to arm myself with info on Urban & Regional Planning

[tulip]

CC, I sent you an email. If you don't get it for some reason, let me know.

[pinkbikes]

Hi crazycanuck. I work for the Main Roads Department in Qld and we hire quite a few urban planners in our planning sections. We have hired many of them as part time students and they have had great on-the-job learning opportunities there, progressing on to graduate positions when they finish their studies.

The down side of working in transport (and cycleway networks are a part of their brief in our joint) is that it is only a narrow sector of urban planning, and probably not our most mainstream career path (it's engineer world) so it can be a little bit limiting if your desire is to progress far and fast as a "townplanner" in the traditional council sense.

Anyways, you might like to check out WA's Main Roads Dept and see if they have anything going for a planning student?

Good luck with the studies...

[crazycanuck]

Pinkbikes-i've been given so many links to look at the Dept of Planning & Inf, Local Gov''t jobs, Cyburbia(cool link!!! Thanks ladies!!) and others that i'll scour for info. I'm not even sure of the exact path I want to go down..

My company is cool about me going part time & don't want to leave quite yet. I'd like to see what happens if i send my CV to our company's planning arm. I am asking everyone I know if they know anyone that's in the planning game..

Thanks again

C