Despite some recent positive news about the economy, it is expected that the economic recession will last until the end of this year and perhaps into 2010 and beyond. Some economists believe that the unemployment rate will continue to rise and will not begin to decline until the end of 2011. The situation is most dire for recent college architecture graduates. It is common knowledge that employment in firms is generally not presently available and is a condition which could remain for some time.
What ideas do you have for alternative short- or long-term employment? Do you have other suggestions to help recent graduates deal with the economic recession?
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ReplyDeleteThough I am still a student, I'm taking my knowledge of programs such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, In-Design, Illustrator, and 3DsMax and doing some work in the graphics, marketing, and web design fields. There are many postings on craigslist for people fluent with the programs to assist with the graphics side of marketing, web design, and even just freelance jobs for companies looking for a creative mind to assist a team on a project. Craigslist.com > Job Postings > Web-Design/Arts/Media section is where I find most of them. Its not a full career or anything but its fun work that is design oriented and although it is a small job and secondary income, has proven to be a learning experience and helped keep that creative spark alive between semesters. So far I have assisted with: T-Shirt design, logo design, marketing brochure design and graphics, modeling renderings, and web graphics.
ReplyDeleteI have also seen a few things on campus of people fluent with programs coming in and teaching them. A prime example: my school (Southern Polytechnic State University) does not offer any instruction for Revit. We have one pair of students who use Revit at their internships and are very knowledgeable about them. They are offering small mini courses in the evening for a small fee like once a week that goes over whatever the mini course topic is about. The first one is a $40 6-week basics class that is two hours once a week. For the student who does not have this available to them at the school but wants to get into it for its appeal to employers, it is very reasonably priced and not to mention that the students teaching it are doing well supplementing income with the amount of people who have partaken in these classes. They also offer intermediate and advanced mini courses for those interested in learning more about the program potentials.
Not sure of how relevant it is to the posting but just figured I would pass that on.
Jake
I posted an article to help graduate architects on their job search. http://bit.ly/bdzZk9
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