| In the field of cartography, there are few jobs | | | | defence industry, graduates with experience in |
| that are as uniquely suited to a graduate's skills as | | | | surveying often go into the engineering field to |
| the graduate surveyor. Surveyors are familiar | | | | use their skills. Engineering firms need maps, |
| figures in a variety of fields, mapping out | | | | blueprints, and other documents created with the |
| residential and commercial lots for construction | | | | help of surveyors. Surveyors head out to work |
| companies or determining the best land area for | | | | sites to determine whether the geographical |
| an urban planning firm. Graduate surveyors have a | | | | location is ideal for a certain project and what long |
| combination of skills that make their presence | | | | term issues may come from developing on a |
| invaluable in the United Kingdom. Few people | | | | certain piece of land. Graduate surveyors also |
| outside of cartography or engineering know how | | | | work as consultants to design teams, as they |
| to make an accurate map, assess soil samples, or | | | | provide input on the land shape and geological |
| determine the structural issues of building on a | | | | issues that may affect a project. Graduate |
| certain type of land. Graduate surveyors in the | | | | surveyors often find engineering positions to be |
| United Kingdom can find work in a variety of | | | | the most lucrative, as the success of conceptual |
| fields. | | | | development depends entirely on the land used. |
| Graduate surveyors in the United Kingdom work | | | | The third option for graduate surveyors is to |
| quite a bit as consultants to military organizations | | | | work in academia, usually at the university level. |
| and defence contractors. The military needs | | | | Surveyors who are exceptional in their course |
| surveyors to oversee soldiers in the mapping of | | | | work and take on advanced educational |
| new terrain or providing consultations on the | | | | opportunities can work as teachers or research |
| creation of new facilities. As well, defence | | | | assistants at UK universities. As well, talented |
| contractors need surveyors to determine | | | | surveyors can teach the next generation of |
| whether a certain land area is ideal for testing | | | | surveyors about the skills needed to succeed in |
| new products. Surveyors in the military or in | | | | the profession. Finally, the trend toward vocational |
| defence contracting firms make a solid wage and | | | | schools in the United Kingdom means that there is |
| provide a public service in the defence of the | | | | a market for young professionals who want to |
| United Kingdom. | | | | help graduates learn the ins and outs of surveying. |
| While there are plenty of surveyors in the UK | | | | |