Reddit reviews Getting to Know ArcGIS for Desktop
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Disc includedThird EditionFor ArcGIS 10.1
I haven't seen evidence to say that GIS is necessary to get a job, but I still strongly recommend it. I know several people, myself included, who have been told that GIS experience has gotten their resumes taken out of the pile.
Even if your school doesn't offer a course on arcGIS, the company that puts out the software offers a pretty good workbook that comes with a trail of the software if you want to look at it yourself.
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Also a decent resource IMO.:
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Know-ArcGIS-Desktop-Michael/dp/1589483081/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417111106&sr=8-1&keywords=arcgis+10.2
I'm nearing the end of my geography major. As someone who is just starting (and struggling big-time) to learn the programmatic side of things, you really have a leg up on the competition. The programming language of choice for GIS apps is Python, so if you still want to be doing some programming that is the language you want to focus on. A Geography grad avgs 50k/year. A geog major who knows python averages 75K!
Broadly speaking, I'd recommend picking up a book like ESRI's Getting to Know ArcGIS and working the examples there. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1589483081?keywords=arcgis&qid=1450722894&ref_=sr_1_2&s=books&sr=1-2
Get to know key terms like rasters, vectors, shapefiles, and the basic operations like clip, buffer, etc. And above all realize that everything exists in space and time, so everything can be analyzed spatially!