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YP Committee Update forum to be accessible to anyone visiting the site. In addition,

By Keith Burley, Chair, Young Professionals Committee we are developing a comprehensive flowchart, “The Path to
Licensure in NY State”. The flowchart will outline the exact
What have the Young Professionals been working on for the first part of pathways, requirements, and strategies to become a licensed
2025? For 2025, the Young Professionals Committee has had a sort of professional in New York State. Within the flow chart, live web-
paradigm shift in focus. Where in previous years the committee has focused links will be incorporated to important sites such as NCEES,
on bringing new people into the profession of land surveying, 2024 and now NYSED, NYSAPLS Bookstore, and many more. We are at the
2025, the committee is committed to being a resource to young professionals, early stages of this development process, but I am very excited
whether young in age, or young to the profession. In addition, for 2025, our and confident that this will be a great tool for anyone wishing
strategic charges set forth by NYSAPLS have also shifted to better align with to become licensed.
this new focus.
We are considering various strategies to allow easy access
I would like to use this opportunity to share what some may not see at the to this information with the goal of reaching people who are
annual conference or various NYSAPLS meetings that we as a committee not always active in the community of NYSAPLS. Part of our
have worked on recently, our current workload, and our future goals. In the focus will be targeting people that may be in the first stages of
past, we have worked diligently on connecting young people with the great their career and simply looking for information. As we all
profession of land surveying with great success through various efforts. know, this typically starts with a Google search. Currently the
Attending career fairs, school visits, demo days, webinar series, and the NYSAPLS site comes up as a second or third hit on a google
development of a shadow program were success stories through the hard search of becoming a surveyor. Keeping that in mind, we will
work of present and past members of the Young Professionals Committee. be striving to develop new strategies to garner more searches
Currently we are shifting our focus to become the main resource for all that lead to the new forum and flow chart higher up on the
young professionals on their path to either licensure or continuing along search results. The committee has recently discussed using
the technician tract. Recently, we have been working on a few new topics platforms such as Reddit to help direct searches to our
that will become a part of the NYSAPLS website in the near future. The first resources on the NYSAPLS website.
will be a forum-based conversation on the NYSAPLS website where we will All in all, the Young Professionals Committee has been hard
pose common questions we encounter in our everyday career or common at work to be a new, inclusive and well-rounded resource to
conversations at meetings and conferences. Members of the Young any person that is considering furthering their career as a
Professional committee members will be offering their responses on the Land Surveyor in New York State.

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