Embracing the Unknown: A Personal Understanding of the Future
Understanding career opportunities, in my future essay sample I will sgare my plane for career development. I am currently in my second year of study in architecture at Coventry University. My plan is to be a registered architect as my future career. It is not an easy pathway, but I know that everything is hard when you start.
When I graduate from my architecture courses, I decide to work or engaged in the architecture design office or construction work. If I want to be an architect, I need to study a master of architecture. As it is a professional role, it requires not only a recognized degree but also practical training and relevant working experiences. To achieve this target, I decided to find an internship and work in an architecture studio for a year. After that, I can obtain a registered architect in the company ARB and RIBA. In order to find a job, I will pay attention to the job market recruitment data. View more reports such as “HECSU What do graduates do” it shows a lot of data about a different kind of job to understand about the job that I can find in the future, so as to have a greater chance of finding a job that suits me. Also, it also according to the past graduate reports if I want to become an architect, I need to continue my study to complete master.
To Be an Interior Designer or Architecture Assistant
After my graduation, I can do the placement in architecture or interior aspects, for example, architectural designer, structural designer and landscape architect. Architects need to have a wide range of skills and knowledge, including drawing, surveying destining, and using various computer software such as CAD, Sketch-up, Photoshop, and Indesign. The most important thing is to report and organize images and to be able to clearly express my design objectives and concepts to clients and teachers. When I find my job for my future career, I just need to prepare my skills and identify graduate opportunities. If I want to have an internship in an architecture studio. I know that I might need to have a tailored cv. It can easily and clearly explain my experience and my ability. It can help me in the graduate labor market to apply for a graduate-level vacancy.
To Identifying My Architecture Career-Related Skills
Firstly, I just need to have good communication skills and a good mentality, it will let me have a good attitude to solve problems and create a good working atmosphere. About the graduate-level job, it might need to have good organizational skills, it is because I can bring my teammate working more hardly and guide to work correctly to solve the problem and finish the task. Teamwork skill is a significant ability, it can make our team have good inspire and working plan. Good teamwork is really important in architect, it is because my job usually works with lots of different construction expert, such as engineers, interior designers, surveyors, and lawyer. Each team member is responsible for different areas of work and cooperation.It is the main essential ability requirement for me because an architect job always need to work with clients. The overall design idea and outcome is to depend on the client requirement, so I know that communication and teamwork skill is really important. Also, Dr. Meredith Belbin said that's observed that people in tears tend to assume different team roles. Tea, there is a tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate with other in a particular way, therefore teamwork is really important for the working. When I am struggling, teamwork can solve my problem and work more quickly and hard.
Career Planning Development to Meet Skill Gap and How to Find My Job
In the 21st century, the internet is very developed, I can easily apply for different jobs and graduate programs on the internet, there are a lot of platforms and software for communicating and contracting information about jobs, for example, Facebook, Career Planner, Government job platform or UK job.com. Also, it has recruitment agencies, personal contacts, and careers services to find jobs. I tried to find an internship job on the Internet, such as the UK indeed online website, I found the graduate landscape architect internship in London for this summer. If I decided to apply for a graduate-level vacancy, I might need to meet the skill gap. Find an internship can help me develop my career to understand more about my future job and improve my skill. I hope I can improve my skill and get more working experience to prepare for the future job. For this internship, It works with different experts with the sole goal of destining and delivering quality buildings. The firm has to build a diverse portfolio of work in a range if project sectors including education, residential, and retail. Also, it clearly to said their role a d responsibility of this job is assisting senior colleagues with the delivery of projects, and producing technical drawings and design drawings and images. It needs to deliver outstanding work to a specific brief with a keen eye for detail and within tight deadlines. The main skill is to use ArchiCAD on is a daily basis to a high standard. Therefore, I understand my shortcomings. Through the internship, I understand my weakness and career. I will improve my abilities such as creativity and the skills of using design tools, as well as learns more external information, broken my horizons, do more projects, participate in more activities, and internships opportunities to improve my abilities, it can help the team to solve problems and deal with daily tasks.
The main thing is to improve my weakness, to prepare good planning and drawing skill. In 'the future of job report 2018', shows 85% of companies want to have user and entity big data analytics, 41% 3D printing, and 59%Digital trades. So report let me understand more about what I need. Moreover, I need to learn to do model design and laser printing, and other special skills. Also, the main action is I would study CAD and the other software course to improve my skill gap. During the university study period, the teacher's teaching in all aspects of professional let me know how to go further in my pathway. I think the first step before u find a job is u need to have an object or target, it could understand the process of career choice, and look about the job market, and what choice do I get, and what requirement I already have.
Conclusion
The most important thing is knowing myself, understand my situation, and exploring my option, and making the correct decision. I would try to join more events and activities to improve the data analysis to meet the skill gap. The company also want the stuff to have a good complex problem-solving skill, critical thinking skill, creativity, and people management, coordinating with others and emotional intelligence, I hope I can learn more skills such as presentation and PowerPoint skill during I doing my degree to improve myself got learn different aspect skill to meet the requirement of the company. I want to give myself a chance to practice my public speaking and it will make me feel more comfortable standing in front of the client now, just because I have practiced. I try to learn more about presentation and the PowerPoint skill special in research and data collection, analysis, and evaluation. I hope I will more creativity to make sure I can design more good work and learn more mathematical and computation skills, Critical thinking and emotional intelligence and time management, and the ability to meet deadlines. Team working assists the senior architects in delivering projects, provide support, quality controls and on-site inspections, problem-solving, it observes difficulties, and provide suggestions and discuss with senior colleagues to tackle the problems, These skills are important for my personal development to meet my skill gap. During the university and the vacancy, I believed that I can improve my communication skill and work quality by the PowerPoint. Also, my speaking will be more clear and easy to understand.
