Looking Hot in a Tight Market: How Firms Successfully Attract Job Applicants

2015-05-21T11:55:00-04:00

Employers, we’re not trying to hurt your feelings, but be honest: Does your company seem like an attractive place in which to work? Thanks to a robust post-recession job market that favors employees, job seekers now have a variety of choices when it comes to finding an employer. This means that, much like going on a date, an employer who wants to attract top talent needs to put more effort into the appearance of their job ads. Although looks aren’t everything, first impressions do count.

There are tons of architecture job openings these days. Why aren't you hired yet?

2015-05-14T17:42:00-04:00

Seven years ago, in the grips of recession, finding employment in architecture was akin to a treasure hunt: there were cryptic clues scattered across a wide geographical area, but for many actually finding the job was simply too time-consuming and difficult. Recent graduates threw up their hands and sought work in other fields; experienced architects, freshly chucked out of their jobs by large firms rapidly downsizing to accommodate the 2008 economic crash, found themselves taking up teaching or other gap-filling work.

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Looking Hot in a Tight Market: How Firms Successfully Attract Job Applicants

There are tons of architecture job openings these days. Why aren't you hired yet?