Now that I have my BS in Emergency Management and Homeland Security, what's next?

See what's available with FEMA or Dept of HLS?

Congrats.

There's no reason why you wouldn't be able to find a position somewhere. There are plenty of Emergency Management positions at the City, County and State level if you can't find anything Federally. USAJobs is a slow burn on applications so it may help to pick up a more local position if you are waiting on job applications to circulate.

Anything is possible if you are in the right place at the right time and sometimes knowing the right people. Guess it depends on what you want and how bad you want it. Mostly we make our own "luck".

Masters and fema basic em cert is a great next step.

Are you interested in moving for this position? I have a graduate degree in it, paramedic, firefighter, Civil Air Patrol, and unless I am willing to move, it has been pretty much a dead end.

If you aren't immediately looking for a job in Emergency Management, several universities offer a Masters in Emergency Management. https://training.fema.gov/hiedu/collegelist/

So far as employment opportunities are concerned, most of the comments have mentioned federal, state, and local government positions, but most large corporations also have professional emergency management positions.

And, of course, there are academic positions for someone with a degree in emergency management. Although you would generally need that masters degree for a full teaching position at the college level, you might consider combining both by considering a TA position with a college while pursuing a masters at that same institution.

I'd say the real question is what do YOU want to do next...

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You probably don't want to hear it, but your MS is the next step. That makes you competitive in local and state EM leadership opportunities. My last CIV job was the Contingency Engineering head for the Navy Northwest Region. We actually supported worldwide ops including Haiti earthquake and Fukushima, amongst others. We also had both DoE and Navy nuclear response as well. In observing how varied governments implemented, or tried to implement, decent EM programs, both 800 Level and MS credentials seemed to be most prevalent in the successful organizations.