{"id":122,"date":"2013-04-05T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/?p=122"},"modified":"2013-04-05T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:13:41","slug":"environmental-consultant-scott-soricelli-visits-envs-for-common-hour-lunch-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2013\/04\/05\/environmental-consultant-scott-soricelli-visits-envs-for-common-hour-lunch-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental consultant Scott Soricelli visits ENVS for common hour lunch presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_123\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/04\/Soricelli_sm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/04\/Soricelli_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/04\/Soricelli_sm.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/04\/Soricelli_sm-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/04\/Soricelli_sm-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Soricelli talks about environmental consulting<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Guest Blogger \u2013 Jonathan Gourley<\/p>\n<p>Scott Soricelli, a geologist from the environmental consulting firm Woodard and Curran gave a presentation to ENVS students in the geology lab over the common hour period about working in the environmental consulting business. \u00a0\u00a0Lured to the event by fresh First &amp; Last pizza, and perhaps the prospect of a future career, fifteen students were engaged in a prolonged question and answer period.\u00a0 They asked Scott excellent questions on what skills one needed to enter the field at the entry level and what types of projects they\u2019d be expected to work on.\u00a0 Scott focused on technical writing to be the primary skill a new hire should have.\u00a0 He also mentioned other requirements such as the willingness to work outside for at least the first few years, the ability to communicate effectively with team members, and mapping skills such proficiency with ArcGIS.\u00a0 He also suggested that the ability to conduct a research project from beginning to end (e.g. a senior thesis or multi-semester project) was an excellent feather in one\u2019s cap, considering the competitive nature of the job market.\u00a0 While graduate school is a plus for the environmental field, Scott said that his firm hires people right out of college as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogger \u2013 Jonathan Gourley Scott Soricelli, a geologist from the environmental consulting firm Woodard and Curran gave a presentation to ENVS students in the geology lab over the common hour period about working in the environmental consulting business. \u00a0\u00a0Lured &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2013\/04\/05\/environmental-consultant-scott-soricelli-visits-envs-for-common-hour-lunch-presentation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}