A while ago I saw a job posting. Here are some highlights. If you could hire someone tomorrow, would your job posting look like this? Why not?
Small, award-winning firm seeks licensed Architect/Project Manager. 60% multi-family housing, mainly for non-profit developers of affordable housing. 40% single family residential, commercial and institutional work. 100% thoughtful, beautiful design. Our work is varied, exciting, and creative. Everyone from drafters to the Principal use BIM (ArchiCAD -not AutoCad- on Macs) to design in 3D and to produce presentation drawings and construction documents, always pushing at the edges of available technology to explore architectural design. As a small firm, everyone must “work up” and “work down”, doing everything from marketing, to CD’s, to dealing with clients. It’s a great opportunity for taking responsibility and broadening your experience. We completed a LEED-Platinum affordable housing project last year, and incorporate sustainable strategies in everything we do. We also have a commitment to Universal Design in every project we undertake, and are experts in it. Our design work is meticulous and our office environment is creative, and offers great growth for the right person.
There’s a lot of nice statements in there, but the two highlight passages, in my estimation, are super critical to a healthy, engaged, forward-thinking firm.
What do you think? How does your firm measure up? What are you doing to make both of those statements a reality?
If you’re a sole practitioner, do you do a good job of working up and down? Or do you avoid one of those directions?