Field hours or software lead for juniors

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ring folks or recent hires: when you skim a junior hydro resume, do 200+ hours of storm sampling and ADCP wading surveys beat a clean ArcGIS Pro/HEC‑RAS portfolio? I’m reworking mine this week and plan to front‑load verified field skills (USGS discharge measurements, RTK shots) and link a GitHub with a Python script that batches HEC‑RAS profiles — does that read practical to you?

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2025-11-10 – Weekly Hydrology News : Remote hydrology work expands
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From the hiring side, the thing that gets callbacks is a single ‘field‑to‑model’ one‑pager up top: a photo and 2–3 lines tying your ADCP/RTK work to the exact HEC‑RAS change it drove, plus a GitHub mini‑repro (sample RAS + your batch script) we can run in 2 minutes — proves you’re “billable Monday”; keep the portfolio, just don’t lead with it. Want a quick outline?

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