While you study architecture, you'd be developing the kind of core skills that are going to make you a very attractive candidate once you've gained your degree. Obviously you'd appeal to architectural firms, but many of those skills you'd have developed both in and out of the classroom would be considered useful by other kinds of employers as well.
When it comes to a job interview, though, there's going to have to be more to your application than your architecture degree: what else have you done that you can use as ammunition in the hunt for your perfect job? What kind of relevant paid work have you done? Are you a member of some kind of architecture-related society, the kind that would impress the interview panel across the table from you? Have you done any kind of volunteer work that made use of what you'd learned at uni? How can you show potential employers that you've got initiative - and can use it? How can you convince them that you're motivated, reliable and hard working?
However, the skills you've developed will impress a potential employer: obviously you'd be proficient at IT - especially when it comes to computer-aided design. Studying for your architecture degree would also have developed your ability to work within a team, manage projects, analyse problems logically, make good decisions and solve those problems. Your communication skills - both written and verbal - as well as your numerical ability would be the kind an employer in the architectural field would be looking for.
And once you've finished studying architecture, what kind of employment prospects are out there, waiting for you? Would you prefer to work in the public sector, for a housing association or local authority? Or would you prefer a career in the private sector, in, perhaps an architecture practice, or even as part of a team working for a bank or a supermarket? You can get a good idea of the vacancies on offer by visiting the website run by the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists, as well as the one operated by ConstructionSkills.
But you're not strictly limited to an architectural role once your studies are over: you could find a position in surveying, town planning, landscape architecture, planning and development and, of course, conservation.
When it comes to a job interview, though, there's going to have to be more to your application than your architecture degree: what else have you done that you can use as ammunition in the hunt for your perfect job? What kind of relevant paid work have you done? Are you a member of some kind of architecture-related society, the kind that would impress the interview panel across the table from you? Have you done any kind of volunteer work that made use of what you'd learned at uni? How can you show potential employers that you've got initiative - and can use it? How can you convince them that you're motivated, reliable and hard working?
However, the skills you've developed will impress a potential employer: obviously you'd be proficient at IT - especially when it comes to computer-aided design. Studying for your architecture degree would also have developed your ability to work within a team, manage projects, analyse problems logically, make good decisions and solve those problems. Your communication skills - both written and verbal - as well as your numerical ability would be the kind an employer in the architectural field would be looking for.
And once you've finished studying architecture, what kind of employment prospects are out there, waiting for you? Would you prefer to work in the public sector, for a housing association or local authority? Or would you prefer a career in the private sector, in, perhaps an architecture practice, or even as part of a team working for a bank or a supermarket? You can get a good idea of the vacancies on offer by visiting the website run by the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists, as well as the one operated by ConstructionSkills.
But you're not strictly limited to an architectural role once your studies are over: you could find a position in surveying, town planning, landscape architecture, planning and development and, of course, conservation.
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