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The University of Arizona and College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture do their best to prepare students to find jobs in their chosen field. As graduation nears, students need to consider career goals and how to reach them. This page was created to assist CAPLA students in locating resources they might find useful in job hunting. Either scroll down to see the whole page, or use one of the links below to take you to the section you need. Getting Started Resume Writing Job Hunting Interviewing Relocating If you are looking for salary or other information about architects in a specific area, contact the American Institute of Architects. You also can search for an individual AIA chapter. The American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Planning Association offer similar support for people going into those fields. The University's Office of Career Services is set up to help students find jobs. Their website offers information about Interviewing and Resumes, Jobs and Internships, and Fairs and Events. Tuition helps support this office, so get your money's worth. Many people find writing resumes difficult. Good advice on the basics can be found at the following sites: 200 Free Cover Letters is a useful site produced by CareerLab. The letters include everything from sending a resume to following up on an interview, from negotiating salary and making counteroffers to resignation. College Grad Job Hunter offers advice, templates and links related to preparing resumes, posting them electronically, and updating resumes. Resumes (from The Writing Center at Renssalear Polytechnic Institute). Your Resume (from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University) You've got your resume ready. How do you find out where to send it? Try these sites: The AEC Job Bank specializes in the building industry. This link will take you directly to their directory for architecture, planning and landscape architecture positions. The Design Architecture Job Board allows you to search for jobs and post your resume. e-Architect is the AIA online job listing. Akropolis.net also offers job searching and resume posting for the design and building industry. The Chronicle of Higher Education is a great place to start looking for jobs in education. Jobs and Careers, which is part of the American Planning Association site, offers tips for finding jobs. It also is a good place to look for a planning job. Job Listings is at ASLA online job listing. If you want to search classified ads from newspapers around the world (or just read newspapers from around the world) try Newspapers Online. Keep in mind that these are literally the ads from the newspaper, with no clickable links. Each interface is different because they are linking to the web pages of each newspaper. Look for the link to Classified ads and search there. Directories like Hotjobs, CareerBuilder, Monster, and JobBankUSA can be helpful but be careful to search in the building industry or your hits might be a list of computer [hardware] architecture jobs. They also let you post your resume in their format for prospective employers to view, and offer a variety of career counseling services. Finally, if you are looking for government positions, you will need to check the appropriate Human Resource sites (e.g., City of Tucson, or Phoenix, Pima County, State of Arizona). If you want to work for the United States Government, look at USA Jobs. If you are interested in working for a city, county or state government outside of Arizona, go to any search engine and use this format: (examples) State of California, or City of Denver, or Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Once the site is found, look for a link that says "jobs," "employment," or "human resources." Most people, whether they have been in the workplace for years or are just starting out, find the interview process painful. These sites offer tips that can make or break an interview: Hiatt's Guide to Interviewing from Brandeis University offers useful tips. Job-Interview.net is a great site. It offers over 900 possible interview questions for a variety responsibilities. This site can give you great ideas for questions you can turn around and use when they ask you "Now, do you have any questions for us?" Virtual Interview from Monster.com's Career Center allows you to practice your interview skills. Before you send out a resume, how can you know if the job will pay enough, especially if it is in another city? OR, if you know you want to move away from this heat, but don't know know where, how do you narrow your location choices? These sites can help: Salary Calculator is just one of a number of tools at the Homefair site to help relocators. This calculator allows you to choose where you live now, where you want to move, and determine the difference in the cost of living. For example, if you currently make $40,000 in Tucson, according to the Salary Calculator, you would need to make $143,514 for the same standard of living in Carmel, California. Obviously, a job paying $70,000 would be a huge increase over your current salary, but it still would be half of what you would need in Carmel to maintain your current lifestyle. Keep in mind that differences in state and local taxes are not taken into consideration by these types of calculators, so you might need even more. Monster also offers a Salary Comparison Calculator. Money Online's Best Places offers a variety of ways to choose a new hometown. In addition to place ratings, and use tools based on as many as 40 factors including weather, crime, lifestyle interests, housing, schools, etc. Most cities and states have online information about relocation. Using any search engine, type in "relocation" with the city or state name. For additional information, please see the CAPLA Student Services Career Planning and Job Search Resources page. If you wish to recommend other sites or find broken links, please e-mail Paula Wolfe. 2/17/04 McCord |
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