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What would you say to a teenager thinking about a career in architecture?

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I’ve got an interesting meeting today. I’m having coffee with a young woman who is thinking about what careers she should be aiming for. And I wondered if you could help me. She wants to be an architect, and as you know it isn’t a career I would suggest as ideal for a young person [...]

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The Third Reason Why You’re Losing Work

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Many people who run businesses aren’t in it because they love it, and they aren’t constantly motivated to change things for the better. Why should they if it is working? It is only when other pressures force a reassessment that they start looking at their business practices in more depth. And that’s when things get [...]

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Architects: My Client Doesn’t Understand Me

The RIBA Linkedin group has been hosting an interesting discussion thread called ‘Re-Educating Clients’ over the last few months in which I have been participating. You can see it by clicking the link above (but you need to join the group and be a member of Linkedin). It is a fascinating discussion with a great [...]

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Taking your Network online – Living:Room

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When this entry is posted I’ll be giving my talk at the RIBA, entitled ‘Why Take Your Network Online?’. Putting together the presentation has been an education in Crowdsourcing – asking my network to help me devise the presentation. One of the many people who helped me is Angela Carr, a Dublin Architect who has [...]

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It Really Is about Money Stupid

“A third of architectural practices made so little profit in the boom times that they could go bust with the onslaught of the credit crunch, an RIBA survey has revealed. This year’s RIBA Business Benchmarking Survey, released to BD this week, shows that just 67% of firms met the industry safe standard of profits equalling [...]

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Getting Twitchy

We’ve had some reports on twitter in the last 24 hours about a percieved increase in approaches from recruitment agencies to architects in the UK. For example, @Waybeesy, an architect in London posted “@SuButcher @the_architect trends: been receiving one too many calls from recruitment agencies -recession in construction over u reckon?” My thoughts are: It [...]

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Delicious Bookmarks for July 4th to July 7th

These are my Delicious Links for July 4th through July 7th: Marketing Handbook for the Design & Construction Professional “These days, driving new business is the key to your survival, and this highly acclaimed marketing tool is your key to driving new business … “This all-new and thoroughly revised handbook covers every aspect of marketing [...]

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When your New Job is your Next Job – Seven excellent tips

Some interesting things have come out of my post on ‘What Did you Do in the Recession’, asking for experiences, context and advice for people experiencing a recession in the construction industry for the first time. I’ve been contacted by more unemployed architects and graduates, and discussed their plight in person, on the phone and [...]

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What did you do in the Recession?

Its no fun being out of work right now. It stinks. But one thing it’s not is unfamiliar. This time last year people were falling over each other to employ candidates in the construction industry, and developers like Godfrey Spanner were wondering where they would find the construction workers to build their next big project. [...]

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