As part of Sarah Lebner’s book launch event, an anonymous question we received was “How can I get a job as an architect after graduating my masters, without any previous work experience in the industry?”

This is a snippet taken from the 2-hour event on Sarah’s youtube channel ([ Ссылка ]) where Sarah Lebner of Light House Architecture and Science, Warwick Mihaly of Mihaly Slocombe and myself, Kyle Sinko, answer this question along with 40+ other questions asked anonymously by young architects and students.

I found Sarah and Warwick’s responses extremely useful and wanted to share it with any students struggling to find a job in architecture after graduating.

Sarah’s website: [ Ссылка ]
Sarah’s free jobseeker workbook: [ Ссылка ]
Sarah’s book “101 Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School (and Wish I Had Known)”: [ Ссылка ]
Warwick’s architecture blog: [ Ссылка ]

Find all the episode’s resources in the show notes:
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Someone who is a Master’s graduate but has no work experience. Do you have any suggestions on how to land your first job?

S:
I would say just apply. It’s not it’s not necessary to have experience. If you check out, there’s a free job seeker workbook on our website, that that covers a lot of these things in those I stress that employers are usually looking for inherent, soft skills and the right personality and potential, possibly even more than relevant work experience. Would you agree with that Warwick?

W:
The number one factor that influences who we eventually employ, this is not who we interview. Graduates get an interview because their application and portfolio is great. That means when you’re sitting down for the interview, you’re already competing against other people who do great work that gets you in the door.

The person who gets employed is the person who feels like they’re going to be the best cultural fit. Basically, am I going to like working next to this person five days a week for a whole bunch of years? If the answer is yes, they get the job. The first thing you can do is to treat your potential boss like a person which means no sirs or madams. No generic applications.

Try to understand who you’re applying to and why you want to work there and why they might want to have you working there.

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