Strategy behind a Successful Resume and Coverletter
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2022
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Yes to the interview tips please! My friends and I are preparing to graduate and this series couldn’t have come at a better time!
Perfect timing! I needed to know all of this to build a proper resume. I'm glad it doesn't apply to your work history alone since it helps anybody who just sits down and watches this video.
so useful, I'm happy to see someone talking about what to write to strengthen your resume not only the tool and design, thank you.
Really great guide on resume writing. I would definitely love a separate video on interview tips! and also, congrats architect Dami on 100k!
You got it! And thank you :)
congrats on 100k! you’ve been doing an awesome job and aspiring architects like me respect and admire your contribution to our community❤️
Brilliant and generous. Thank you, Dami.
I love your video and it was really helpful to make structuring my first portfolio!!! Thank you for sharing ur stories and skills!!
This is so helpful most especially to younglings like me who just (barely) started. Please do more of this.
You’re an Architect and yet you offer a bunch of helpful tips which are not limited to your field of work. I am taking Operations Management (current freshie) and this is really spot on!
Oh and again, you’re so beautiful! 💚
Great tips thanks so much. I’m interested in the interview tips! Also your video on how to create a Portfolio is great!💯💯💯
Thanks for making this video, I can actually vouch for your advice here as it actually helped me land a job!
I swear you are reading my mind with these videos I was just making a cover letter and resume for my co-op in highschool when I got this recommended
good job for sharing this info in such a great way!
Once again thank you so much for important tips and congratulations too. ✨🙂
These informational videos are pretty helpful. Would definitely watch the interview tips video too.
Your resume is so impressive! It makes me nervous actually, I'm entering my 4th year of architecture from the 6 years it takes at my university and I'm just starting to become funcional thanks to therapy and treatment of my TDA. I'm scared about how behind I am from other people who exceed from the start and can have resumes as impressive as this, I haven't got any notable achievements yet but some of my classmates do.
I hope my fears render themselves irrelevant as time goes on.
I totally get what your're going through. I took a two year gap from architecture thanks to my anxiety and depression. But I'm back on track and realize I have much less done than my current classmates. It scares and confuses me what will become of my career. Designing, software and socializing, I'm behind on everything.
I hope you are in a better position than where you started, and all the fears will be nothing in the long run!
All the best to you my friend.
If you really enjoy the design field, you should catch up in building your resume, slowly but surely. And please, make favor to yourself - and do not compare to anyone else. Find what is it that you love doing, what sparks your spirit, and just focus on that!! You can do it
Congrats on 100k!! Here's to the next 900k! Cheers, Dami!
100k!! Love how the number looks! Perfect clear videos as always! Looking forward for more :D
Thank you!! It is a great number 😆
Really helpful tips, thank you Dami
Thanks for the insights and yh an interview view video would be great
I'm a bit late in finding this video, but I had a few questions I hope you could help me with. 1) For someone who has just graduated with a master's degree but doesn't have a year's worth of work experience, what kinds of positions should I aim for, if most require 3+ years? 2) How would I cater my cover letter and resume to the goals I have without such experience?
Ahhh! back at it again and congrats on 100K waiting for your youtube 100K plaque thing!!
Thank you!! Hahah me too! I'm patiently waiting... 😁
This was very helpful. Also love if you could make a video on interview tips. Thanks.
thank you, dami! this is very helpful. as i am moving abroad in three months, i have a general question to you and other commenters: how should i advertise myself to those foreign offices while not knowing the local laws/norms/codes?
i have a lot of design experience from my own country, but i guess i will start as a draughtswoman out there [fortunately technical drawings are what i like the most in being an architect] slowly learning the laws and professional language. i am just scared they might not be looking for someone like me.
Thanks for the help! Much appreciated.
Can you make a video on resumes and cover letters for students of architecture looking to apply to supplemental summer programs and internships? 1. With little to no work experience and 2. If we have pivoted in careers, how to show that in resume? ex: healthcare to architecture? Thank you!
thank you for the video!! what font did you use for your resume?
This came at a really good time! Thanks 😊
No problem!! Good luck 😊
I'm literally about to do my resume today and this popped up. Perfect!
Love your content ❤
Great guid.. it’ll help me a lot.. I’m an architecture student who is applying for internships so you have any advice for that.. I mean taking into consideration that I don’t have much experience!!
Interview tips would be pretty cool 👌
i have to find this vid after "How to Create an Architecture Portfolio | Everything You Need to Know!". Thanks for your useful informations
I’m a third year architecture student seeking work for my year out! What is your advice for graduates with no prior work experience?
Thanks for another informative video Dami! This is perhaps a sensitive topic. I'm curious to know, did you have to request permission to use graphics and drawings from your previous firms to include in your portfolio? I am a little confused on how to compile a professional portfolio vs a student portfolio. Congrats on 100k :)
Hii! Can you please suggest the best size ratio for portfolio and maybe the efficient font pairings too
Thank you, I'm in a process of writing a resume with a 10-year of experience in a small residential company as a design and build / architect, I recently migrated to Ontario and trying to get an entry-level job in a specific architectural firm without a hiring ad, having no experience in the country, what positions could I offer them? My first thought is architectural draftsman or technologist.
Hey
Everytime people ask me to review or help them write an application/coverletter. I always say to them that it basicly has to be a salespitch on why the company need you.
If i’m a fresh graduate with no work experience what should i list on my resume?
Yeah, I got an interview but I hadn’t gotten to a call back. I was really bad when it came to talking about my work.
That video came at the right time, as I'm changing careers, and I would like to update my resumeon that end!
So thank you in advance!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
02:27 Tailor *application strategically.*
04:19 Convert *weaknesses to strengths.*
07:54 Emphasize *practical skills.*
11:08 Resume *layout tips.*
14:45 Highlight *achievements clearly.*
17:32 Don't *get discouraged.*
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Hi Dami! I'm a recent MArch graduate and have prepared a website portfolio and a physical portfolio. I do prefer my website portfolio, but do you think it's important to include a pdf version in email applications along with the coverletter + resume?
congrats 101k
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One thing important is to highlight not only compatible experiences to the applied position regarding skills but the company's environment or industry. Let's say the place you are applying to is a large firm. I would never suggest writing "Having focused my professional growth in a SMALL, YOUNG firm". No need to advertise what makes you distant from the company's culture and environment. Once again: highlight your strengths and what you bring to the table that is related to the job position and company. Just try what Im saying and you will definitely have a better result than the opposite.
I can do that
😄😄😄😄 Hoon di kami 😀😀❤️❤️
Hi Dami! Great content as always☺️
I have a vid request, I have applied to architecture courses in Canada as an international student, and it would be so helpful to know if architects are in demand or not in Canada, or whether it is easy enough to get internships after your Masters etc.
Ly !xx💓
I would say compared to other places architects are in demand in Canada, purely based on the fact that there is a lot of work but not enough architecture graduates.
I see thank you!
Amazing video. FYI - Your contact info is visible in some points of the video- I would censor/edit out if I were you
0:04 I wonder why so many lol.
What kind of help are you seeking?
You have the same exact mannerisms as graham stephan
😅I have memorized your intro. Hey guys, my name is Dami I am licensed Architect is beautiful Vancouver BC.
As a software engineer I can tell you that in our field, CV doesn't matter much except from first impression. Candidates go through rigorous technical interviews or/and take a test project which might take days to finish. The deliverables will determine the hiring process result, not a CV. You house builders are lucky.
If you consider being forced to get a college degree, having to attain thousands of hours of a professional internship, passing 7 tests, being underpaid and overworked, just to be officially called an architect and then having computer coders call themselves architects just because it sounds cool, then yeah, "house builders" are real lucky. :crying inside: And not to condescend in any way, but architecture involves being able to tell stories and communicate ideas about projects to others, so a good CV is a marker of someone's ability to do that.
@@tomhoang7195 Ι also have a college degree, I also have done internships, I have done all the things you brag about , but these things don't matter much because in the end of the day you'll be asked to deliver. We are asked to do a project to prove our skills- as part of the hiring process. You are spoiled and don't get that kind of pressure. We are not calling ourselves architects , we ARE architects because there's structure in software. And be thankful to software architects because they provide you with the tools to do your job - if it weren't for us you'd be drawing (oops I am sorry , modelling - does it sound more important now :D) your cute little houses on paper. Yeah, house builders, that's what you are. You draw cute little sketches so that engineers know what they are building. Big deal.
You mistake my comment as bragging, haha. I was commenting about how overly rigorous the architecture education and professional field makes it for us “house builders” to obtain the title of “architect.” And if you want to get technical, there’s structure in everything, just like there’s art, science, math, etc., but people don’t go around to a lawyer asking them to perform surgery. Those titles are upheld to their profession, whereas the term architect has become a throw away word. Before I went back to school for architecture, I was in the tech industry working for one of the big names. I don’t miss it, it’s hard work, and I respect the people that do it, but the reality is you work on code. I just remembered it was called programming and coding at one point. Some people don’t even need school for it, because they learn from experience or teach themselves. I also work in an engineer’s office now, and guess what? They don’t do all the work, that’s why architects and engineers have a collaborative relationship. So if you want to be condescending to a field you think does nothing but draw pretty houses, at least understand all that it encompasses. You want to say architects wouldn’t be modeling anything if it weren’t for your field, but for centuries “house builders” have created the buildings you work, govern, eat, sleep, and live your life in.
@@kabasakalis u got destroyed
lol, i have both degrees. arch students arent the brightest…the cute ones get the jobs.
DONT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER LETTER.
Will be using tips taken here to apply for Arch. Dami Lee’s architectural firm someday. It better work. 🤔
The funniest applicant I ever had was a fellow who did not submit a resume but showed up for the interview. i ask why he failed to submit a resume and he asked if he will be hired. I told him I don't know yet. He responded as serious as ever," I am not going to waste my time submitting a resume unless I'm going to be hired." Needless to say, we did not hire him.