Careers Guide

Choosing the right place to work is one of the most important decisions you will ever make.

By the time you have paid your ARB, you will have a spent at least a couple of years in and out of architects’ offices. But how do you get a job with a practice in the first place? And how do you continue to get jobs and experience during those two journeyman decades before, as architectural mythology has it, you might be able to go on site with your first major building?

The AJs Careers Guide is here to help with a family tree showing links between leading firms, interviews with foreign architects working in the UK, Norman Blogster’s guide to st.architecture, and practice profiles. It aims to help both people training to be architects and those looking to develop their careers. In the current seller’s market, you will discover how to make the crucial link which translates you from a recent graduate into an architectural assistant with a job. With a practical profile on 11 practices and their staff, this guide contains invaluable career advice you won’t find anywhere else.

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