Environmental Design Library
Job Hunting in Planning, Architecture, & Landscape Architecture
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Career Planning
Use career guides to learn about career paths and how to prepare for them. Note that these professions overlap in focus, so career guides
in several areas may be of interest.
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TIP: UCB students: visit the
Career Center for great career planning advice.
General | Architecture & Design | City Planning | Environmental Planning | GIS | Landscape Architecture |
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General
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Career descriptions and education
(CityTownInfo)Classic source of career information. Includes describes each profession and gives a current career outlook, training requirements, salary information, and much more.
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Architecture & Design
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Becoming a graphic designer: a guide to careers in design, by Steven Heller &
Teresa Fernandes. 2nd ed. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Online table of contents.
Includes architecture. Online table of contents .
Online table of contents .
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City Planning
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Environmental Planning
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Online table of contents.
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GIS Look also in city and environmental planning listings for
additional GIS job hunting information.
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AAG Online career guide (Association of
American Geographers)
GIS Career sources (GIS Lounge).
Good starting place for GIS job seekers. Includes career, internship, job search information, and more.
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Landscape Architecture
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Landscape architecture education and career development
(ASLA)
Opportunities in landscape architecture, botanical gardens, and
arboreta, by Blythe Camenson. Rev. ed. NY: McGraw Hill, 2007.
Online table of contents.
Online table of contents.
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Job Openings & Internships
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Web
Sites
The Web offers many resources for job hunting.
Professional and academic association Web sites can be particularly useful.
Try these directory sites.
For jobs in local government, consider community networks and freenets for job openings with specific cities. For additional ideas see the Job Hunting Strategies section of this guide. |
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General
See also
Craigslist to find job openings and post resumés.
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Acadmic careers onlineProvides notice of academic position announcements, including post-doctoral positions and graduate fellowships and assistantships.
Federal
business opportunities (U.S. E-Government)
"The U.S. government's one-stop virtual marketplace." Replaces Commerce Business Daily.
Posts academic position announcements in history and the humanities, the social sciences, etc., and serves a broad audience, including faculty and administrators.
Concentrates on open positions in higher education. Job seekers may post resumés.
Searchable directories of jobs by keyword, city, state, company, etc.
A job and internship listing and resumé service targeting college students and alumni; available to UC Berkeley students.
Excellent comprehensive guide to job-hunting on the Web.
Planning jobs (UC Berkeley, Dept. of City & Regional Planning) Lists both on- and off-campus positions.
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A Web-based posting board for San Francisco Bay Area local government and special district job listings.
Wide range of local government jobs.
A database for job opportunities in planning and allied professions.
An online job and information service for architectural and building design professionals in the United Kingdom, including landscape architects and planners.
Job listings and advice for architecture jobs in the United Kingdom, for international architects.
An interactive national clearinghouse of jobs in landscape architecture. Fee required to submit job listings and resumés. No fee to read listings and resumés.
Lists job postings in California architectural firms, and in a few landscape architectural firms. Provides links to detailed descriptions of firms.
Job postings and resumés. Includes information about the Intern Development Program (IDP). Fee charged to post positions or resumés.
Lists environmental employment and internship opportunities.
Links to many job listing sites for environmental careers.
In addition to job listings includes resumé resources, and more. International.
GIS Career sources (GIS Lounge)Good starting place for GIS job seekers. Includes job listings, internship, job search information, and more.
Gateway site for GIS jobs in all fields.
Offers qualitative and quantitative information about architectural firms. Developed primarily by architecture interns. U.S. focus.
Listing includes jobs for architects, planners, civil engineers, environmental specialists.
Primary focus is Australia and New Zealand.
Very current postings, covering a range of positions, including planning, transportation planning, environmental planning, landscape architecture, etc. U.S.
Job listings and advice for city planning jobs in the United Kingdom, for international planners.
International scope; includes profiles of individuals and firms, as well as job postings.
Frameworks (UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design)
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Internships
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TIP: Check the Web sites listed in
the Job Listings section of this guide for
internships.
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Job and internship postings and resumés. Includes information about the Intern Development Program (IDP). Fee charged to post positions or resumés.
Lists environmental employment and internship opportunities.
Includes directory of internships.
Offers "quantitative and qualitative information about the work, culture, and employee experience at architecture firms" and develops ratings based on that information. Includes the number of interns employed by each firm listed.
Searchable directories of jobs by keyword, city, state, company, etc. Search for internship, etc.
Includes a search category for internships and externships.
Excellent comprehensive guide to job-hunting on the Web. For internship and similar listings, select Job Listings/Part-Time and Temporary Opportunities.
Online table-of-contents.
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Job
Hunting Strategies
Use these sources to develop an overall strategy for your job search.
Getting Started | Researching Prospective Employers | Resumés & Cover Letters | Portfolios | Interviewing | Salaries |
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Getting Started
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General
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Career onestop (U.S. Dept. of Labor)Great starting place for career information, salary data, and much more.
CareerOverviewIncludes career planning advice, salary information, links to other job hunting sites.
Comprehensive Web site for all aspects of job hunting.
Easy to navigate. California focus.
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Career-Specific
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Includes information on using the Internet for a job search.
Visit the Business & Economics Library, Haas Business School; it houses the campus' business collection and is a good place to research a large company or firm.
Check the newspaper(s) of the city where the firm or organization being researched is located. See News Databases (Library home page | Electronic Resources | Electronic Resources-Types | News Databases) for Internet access to a variety of national and international newspapers, or visit Newspapers & Microforms, 40 Doe Library.
Use journal indexes to find articles about specific architectural and design firms and planning organizations, as well as job market information. See also the Environmental Design Library for guides to additional periodical indexes in planning, architecture, and landscape architecture.
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Academic search complete via EBSCO - UC
Only
Indexes articles in more than 1,500 general interest journals and scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences. Abstracts and full text available for many titles indexed. - Coverage: 1865--
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Art index retrospective
& Art full text via WilsonWeb - UC
Only
Indexes journal articles in art and related fields, including architecture, city planning, urban design, and landscape architecture. - Coverage Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984; Art Full Text: 1984--
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Avery index to architectural periodicals via CSA
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Only
Contains citations to articles in 1,000+ periodicals in architecture, planning, urban design, and related disciplines. - Coverage: 1890--
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Business source complete via
EBSCO - UCB Only
Includes full-text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. - Coverage: 1965--
- AIA San Francisco firm profile (American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter)
- Online ed.: http://www.aiasf.org/Find_a_Professional/Architecture_Firms.htm; paper ed.: EnvDesign NA55 S4 A6 Latest edition at Reference Desk
- The American business disc [computer file]. Omaha,
NE: American Business Information.
Use to locate and identify businesses by zip code and SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code. Lists American businesses from the smallest to the largest. Provides numbers of employees, payroll size, etc. - Business Library HF5035 .A565 compu/d
- The Harbinger file: a directory of citizen groups, government agencies and environmental education programs concerned with California environmental issues, Santa Cruz, CA: Harbinger Communications.
- Online ed.: Doe Refe; ask at Doe Reference Desk for accessibility
- Index
to current urban documents - UCB Only
NY:
Greenwood Press.
Indexes publications of local government agencies. Use to identify areas of activity in a community or planning department. - Online ed.: 2000--; paper ed.: 1972/73--; EnvDesign JS13 A12 M85 Index; IGSL A0091 Indexes
- InsideArch: the inside view
into firms and professional culture
This Web site gathers "quantitative and qualitative information about the work, culture, and employee experience at architecture firms" and develops ratings based on that information. Includes a brief profile of the firm, including number of interns employed. - http://www.insidearch.org/home.php
- ProFile: the official directory..... American Institute
of Architects.
Up-to-date directory of current individual and firm members of the A.I.A. Note that only about 50% of registered architects are members of the A.I.A. - EnvDesign NA53 P76 Latest edition Reference Desk
- Who's green?: the directory of who's green in the design and construction field.
Kansas City, MO: Ecotone LLC, 2005.
Includes listings for architectural firms, engineering firms, interior design firms, green consulting firms, green building organizations, non-profits, architectural schools with a green focus, and green building media. - EnvDesign TH880 W567 Latest edition in Reference
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Writing Resumés & Cover Letters
Many additional titles on resumé and cover letter writing
are available in the
Business & Economics Library.
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General
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Pushes the resumé beyond the conventional linear presentation. Helps the reader to analyze the resumé as a design task.
Includes writing resumés. Online table of contents.
Includes cover letters and examples of profession-specific resumés, e.g., CAD/drafting, self-employed, university graduates.
Online table of contents.
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Career-Specific
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Online table of contents.
Online table of contents.
Includes chapters on the hiring process and portfolio presentation.
Design portfolios: moving from traditional to digital, by Diane M. Bender.
NY: Fairchild Books, 2008.
Covers portfolios for architects, landscape architects, and interior designers.
Includes brief bibliography and list of Web sites.
Online table of contents.
Bibliography, pp.135-137.
Interior design visual presentation: a guide to graphics, models,
and presentation techniques, by Maureen Mitton. 3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Online table of contents. Includes a chapter on portfolios and resumés.
Bibliography.
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Interviewing
Many additional titles on interviewing are available in the
Business & Economics Library.
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Salaries
Prepare for your salary negotiations. Research information about current salary
trends. Many of the titles listed elsewhere in this guide include salary data and advice on how to negotiate
your salary. The campus
Career Center also has useful titles.
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Career onestop (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
Great starting place for career information, salary data, and much more. Lists databases, Web sites, etc., of wage and salary surveys. International, with good California representation. |
2006-2007 compensation & salary survey.
Atlanta, GA: Design Futures Council, 2006. DesignIntelligence; v. 12:3.
Surveys architects and architectural firms.
Salary information for architects.
Of special interest: "Salaries of Municipal Officials" and "Salaries of County Officials."
Survey data reported for California, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and Sacramento/Central Valley.
Compiled by Deborah Sommer
City Planning & Landscape Architecture Librarian
Environmental Design Library
Originally compiled in 1996
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