Using your subject: Architecture
Learn how to use a degree in Architecture to enhance your career prospects
An Architecture degree gives you visual, planning and technical skills meaning you’ll be equipped for a creative, design-based career
These skills, along with other factors of career choice – what you like doing (your interests), what’s important to you (your values) and your personality type – will help you make informed career decisions. Remember that your career may be based on the skills you’ve gained over the course of your degree studies.
Career options
Some of the main career options with an Architecture degree are:
- Architect
- Architectural technologist
- Building control surveyor
- CAD technician
- Fire risk assessor
- Interior and spatial designer
- Town planner
- Urban designer
You can find out more about these on Prospects what can I do with my degree? as well as the wide variety of jobs where your skills and knowledge are applicable.
Networking
What is networking, and why is networking important in creative careers?
Networking is all about making connections with people who share your interests or work in the kind of creative career you’re aiming for. Whether you want to work for a company, start your own business, or do a bit of both, knowing the right people can really help you shape your career ideas as well as open up opportunities for you. In creative industries, many jobs and projects are shared through conversations and recommendations—not just formal advertising. By chatting with others, going to events, or even just staying active online, you can learn from people’s experiences, find collaborators, and hear about exciting projects. Building your network while you’re still a student can give you a big head start when you’re ready to launch your career.
Check out our guide to networking and consider building your LinkedIn profile now.
Resources to help with your career research
- TARGETjobs – Architecture Degree Careers information
- RIAS – Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has some useful information on becoming an Architect
- The RIBA has some useful information on careers support.
- icould also has a full range of careers information interviews and case studies featuring numerous different roles which you can search through and view online.
To help you explore the wide range of career options open to you have a look at Prospects what can I do with my degree? and take the Prospects Career Planner Quiz.
Volunteering
If you are interested in gaining some voluntary experience locally you may find the following websites helpful
- Volunteer Scotland advertises a number of local and national volunteering vacancies
- Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action advertises a number of Dundee based volunteering vacancies
Work experience and graduate jobs
- RIBA Part 1 & Part 2 Jobs – How to get one
- University of Dundee JobShop
- RIBA Jobs
- RIAS – Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland – Advertise Architecture vacancies
- AJ Jobs
- myjobscotland for local authority vacancies
- Saltire – a world-class internship programme, which prepares students in their penultimate year of study by taking part in projects in Scotland and all over the world
- Forage – host of thousands of free virtual job simulations
- For some University of Dundee students, you may be eligible to take our 20 credit level 2 Internship Module.
Sometimes, making a speculative application may be the way to get that work placement or internship that you want. If you’d like to talk through how to approach a potential employer, feel free to contact the Careers Service.
General resources
The following websites may be helpful to search the wider job market, where your transferable skills can be applied.
Graduate schemes
Many leading UK employers across all industries run graduate training programmes, to discover the benefits of these schemes and how you apply the links below will help: