Advance Your Career
APA gives your planning career a boost through webinars, online resources, and advice from planning professionals in a wide array of occupations.
Career Resources
Career Reality Webinars
APA's Career Reality Webinars offer practical tips on job search and professional development issues for new and seasoned planners alike.
Planning Career GPS
APA offers resources to help you advance your career and employability advice from industry professionals.
Planner Profiles
Planner Profiles help you see yourself in the variety of occupations that employ planners in the public and private sectors and in jobs that don’t have planner in the title.
People Behind the Plans
Planners of every discipline share the impactful work they do in this podcast series. Led by host Courtney Kashima, AICP, these conversations illuminate the essential hows and whys of planning.
A Guide for the Idealist Blog Series
Richard Willson, FAICP, draws on years of experience in the classroom, as a researcher, and as a mentor to young planners to offer insights into decision making, doubt, types of work, and work settings.
Career Education
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Careers in the Time of COVID
Getting creative is the key to staying competitive.Here are three strategies to help you stay in the career game in tough times. -
APA Women and Planning Division
Strategies for Successful Salary Negotiations
Planners, learn about the wage gap in general — and planning's wage gap in particular — to prepare to negotiate during your next review or as you are hired into a new position.Nonmember 26+ Group Price$30.00APA Member 26+ Group Price$15.00WPD Member 26+ Group Price$7.50Nonmember 5-25 Group Price$34.00APA Member 5-25 Group Price$17.00WPD Member 5-25 Group Price$8.50Individual Nonmember Price$40.00Individual APA Member Price$20.00Individual WPD Member Price$10.00- Melissa Dickens, AICP
- Breanne Rothstein, AICP
- Kimberly Prillhart, AICP
- Tanya Stern, AICP
- Mia Scharphie
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Planning Ethics and Today's Challenges
All practitioners sometimes grapple with the right thing to do in complex and often ambiguous situations that seem inconsistent with their own experiences or the AICP code. Learn how to make ethical decisions more easily.Nonmember Group License$45.00Member Group License$22.50Nonmember Group License$51.00Member Group License$25.50Nonmember$60.00Member$30.00- Carolyn Loh
- Bonnie Johnson, FAICP, PhD
- Mickey Lauria
- Nader Afzalan
- Lisa Schweitzer
- Sandra Rosenbloom
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Planning Supervisor's Playbook Series
Jumping into a supervisory role or any level of management is a career goal many people share. While basic management skills are a necessity, there are unique challenges and situations which only a planner will face. This six-part series course is designed to provide you with tools needed for supervisory success.Nonmember$280.00Member$140.00- Aimee Nassif, AICP
- Matthew Brandmeyer, AICP
- James Peters, FAICP
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