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There has never been a more important time to use geographical knowledge and skills to pursue a career. None of the changes and challenges facing the UK and the world in the 21st century, including climate change, energy security, migration, urbanisation and globalisation, can be properly understood, let alone tackled, without geography.
Whether your future career lies in the environmental sector, business, education, the natural or social sciences, the media, in geospatial industries or in travel, geography opens up a range of choices for your future work and career.
Career focussed dates for schools
National Careers Week
It is National Careers Week 2 – 7 March 2026. National Careers Week (NCW) is a one-week celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK.
Green Careers Week
This week takes place annually in November. Look out for 2026 information here: https://greencareersweek.com/
Resources from Green Careers Week in November 2025:
- Environment Agency careers: a river catchment case study – KS3 careers online teaching resource
- Environment Agency careers website
Geography and Green Skills
Download the Geography and Green Skills publication and the accompanying PowerPoint which includes examples of how a primary and secondary school promote green skills in their geography curriculum.
Highest paying jobs in 2025
In 2025 The Independent released a list of the top 10 highest paying jobs in 2025 that come with the least amount of stress – geographers were number nine and other geography-related roles were featured, including water source specialists, remote sensing scientists and transport planners.
Read the full job list here:
The top 10 highest-paying jobs with the least amount of stress in 2025 | The Independent
Career resources
GA Career Spotlights
We have 14 Career Spotlight resources available in our Online Teaching Resources.
GA Blogs about careers
Read the GA Blog ‘Making geography a career-defining subject… before it’s too late‘ written by Rob Parker and Tim Parker from Time for Geography.
Read the GA Blog ‘Building a professional pathway for geography students into the built environment‘ written by Emma Meredith.
Read the GA Blog Introducing ‘This is Geoscience’: inspiring the next generation of geoscientists by Ashley Akingbade.
Read the GA Blog ‘Shaping the future: careers in resources and waste management‘ by Katie Cockburn.
Careers video
Watch this short YouTube video with Kirk Denton, an Associate Town Planner, speaking about how studying geography prepared him for his current role.
GA career posters
There are lots of different career pathways available for young geographers, our latest poster can inspire students to imagine a career in weather and climate.
Geographers study local and global challenges, meaning we are ideally placed to make a difference in politics. So it’s no surprise to see this Parliament once again includes several MPs who studied geography.
GA journal articles
Time for Geography career video resources
Time for Geography has a huge selection of videos available including some focussed on careers.
We have listed their career focussed and Careers Insight videos below:
- The Curious Geographer Investigates: Careers in Catastrophe Modelling with Shane Latchman at Verisk
- Lithium Exploration – Geography and Geoscience Careers Insight
- Jobs for Geographers and Geoscientists – Geography and Geoscience Careers Insight
- Studying processes that shape the Earth’s surface to address the most pressing challenges we face – Geography and Geoscience Careers Insight
- Farmer for Schools – Geography and Geoscience Careers Insight
- Using geographical understanding to simulate and build resilience to catastrophic events – Careers Insight
- Using the tools of geography, maths and science to predict and prepare for our weather – Careers Insight
- Applying geospatial data science to plan a sustainable future – Careers Insight
- Unravelling stories hidden in landscapes to engineer a more sustainable world
Further resources
Visit these websites for additional careers information and resources:
- https://nationalcareersweek.com/
- https://greencareersweek.com/
- https://www.esri.com/en-us/
- https://www.rgs.org/
- https://timeforgeography.co.uk/careers/careers-explorer/
- https://www.discover-the-world.com/
- https://environmentagencycareers.co.uk/
- https://www.field-studies-council.org/
- https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
