Tim G.
About me
| Tim G. | |
| Archaeology | |
| Archaeological Heritage Management | |
| Taught Postgraduate | |
| 1996 | |
| United Kingdom |
My employment
| Archaeologist | |
| Gloucestershire County Council | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Government and civil service | |
| Large business (250+ employees) | |
| 1997 |
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A day in the life of a Archaeologist in the United Kingdom
Historic Environment Record Officer for Gloucestershire
My career goals when I graduated
Its archaeology so the only goal is to get a job!
My career history
I have worked in this role since 1997 - after 6 months of unemployment following graduation from York
What has helped my career to progress
My boss leaving so I could apply for her job.
Courses taken since graduation
Various in-house software courses help with the day job and the HER Forum and Historic England run courses and workshops on other aspects of the profession.
How my studies have helped my career
The AHM course enabled me to get a broad understanding of the profession at the time and offered the important opportunity, which I would recommend to anyone else, to volunteer in the job I was aiming to get after graduation
What surprised me about my career so far
The fact that I have been doing the same job for 19 years!
Where I hope to be in 5 years
I do not want to spend my life doing personnel and finance paperwork as a county archaeologist, so I have risen as far as I want to go in local authority archaeology provision. I'd rather be doing than managing.
My advice to students considering work
Try and identify what you want to do early on and get some voluntary experience of it - anyone who has done the job even for a few months is a more attractive proposition for an employer than someone they have to train up. Also, write a good application form - see what they want and address those things. As an employer it makes it much easier if someone clearly states how they meet the job requirements especially when you have to shortlist from 100 applicants to 5!
My advice about working in my industry
As above - there are a lot of people going for the same jobs so you need to make yourself stand out.
Other advice
Persevere
Contacting me
I am happy to discuss any aspect of local government archaeology especially working on HERs
What I do
Manage the HER for Gloucestershire
Skills I use and how I developed them
The job is based around a large Oracle database attached to an Arcmap GIS and skills in both of these were developed 'in house.' Good communication and people skills are required to deal with a host of different enquirers.
What I like most
The variety of the work and the ability to fiddle around with technology and maps!
What I like least
Data entry....
What surprised me most
I wasn't particularly surprised by the job as I had volunteered at Yorkshire CC and knew what I was getting into!
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