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this page President's Perspective: Some Surveys You Should Know About This Fall By Greg Finn, Ph.D., P.Geo.APGO President Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Academic Brock University  As I write these words for the President's Perspective article, the fall season is slowly showing its colours as I look out at the campus. Although being located in the balmy Niagara Region, only 5% of the trees are showing hints of reds and yellows. Hopefully, this will mean a few more weeks of warmer weather before the trees are completely bare of leaves and a chance to do some extra things outside to enjoy the fall colour before winter arrives. As well, the grape harvest is underway with no indication of what the 2008 vintage has in store. Perhaps members could find sometime this fall to consider the following geoscience surveys. APGO has joined with the Ordre des Géologue du Québec (OCQ) to conduct the first geoscience-only compensation and benefits survey. Other professional associations of combined engineers and geoscientists have conducted salary surveys for several years with only some of the geoscientists responding. The primary goal of the survey is to provide a report on the compensation and benefits of members of APGO and OGQ. The survey seeks to collect select baseline information to serve as a basis of comparison over time, maximize the response rate, ensure objectivity of the report and protect the anonymity of the respondents. APGO and OGQ have been working with InfoFeefback to design, monitor and report back on the online survey. Watch your inbox for an e-mail invitation to complete the survey. All members who participate in the survey will receive a free, full report once the survey is completed and the data compiled. For those members who do not participate, an executive summary will be made available. Another survey item that crossed my desk recently that will be of interest to APGO members is from the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences (CFES). CFES facilitates the coordination of Canadian Earth science organizations in order to improve their efficiency and effectiveness in addressing the natural resource, environmental and safety needs of Canadians. "CFES has completed a comprehensive national survey of current and future demand for Earth science professionals. Quite possibly the first such survey to have been completed, this survey provides preliminary insights of present and future hiring needs from a broad cross section of industry, government and academia. With assistance from member and affiliated organizations including CCPG, PDAC, CIM, CSPG, CSEG, CGS, CCCESD, CNC-IAH and the NGSC, CFES was able to gather responses from over 117 organizations representing 4000 individual Earth scientists, and spanning organizations in the fields of Minerals and Metals, Oil and Gas, Environmental and Geotechnical, Academia and Provincial and Federal Governments."1 The full survey report can be accessed at: http://www.geoscience.ca/CFES_HR_requirements_Canadian_earth_sciences.pdf Please take sometime this fall and complete the salary survey and consider reading the results of the demand for Earth Science Professionals as well as enjoy the fall colour outdoors! 1 - from http://www.geoscience.ca/news.html |
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