How to Launch Your Urban Planning Career

This video discusses everything that a prospective or junior planner needs to know to chart a fulfilling urban planning career. Dr. Richard Willson, FAICP shares a framework for charting an urban planning career path that aligns with individual passions, goals, personalities, and the desire to change the world as an urban planner.

With a wide array of potential jobs available in an urban planning career, planners face many choices while launching and relaunching their careers. This video is based on the idea that urban planners are most effective when their jobs are well-matched with their characteristics and goals.

Dr. Richard Willson, FAICP is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Cal Poly Pomona.

00:00 Introduction
01:20 Urban planning career path map example
03:23 Reasons to plan your urban planning career path
04:31 How to match your passion with your urban planning career
08:18 How to effectuate change as an urban planner
10:30 Tools for assessing personality
14:38 4 core values that drive urban planning careers

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