How To Clarify a Gap in Your Resume? Many job seekers in architecture and interior design have gap years in their resumes. For example, you spent a year traveling and studying international architecture. While taking a year off can lead to life-affirming experiences, they can also damage your resume if [...]
Exploring Innovation: DBI Visits the Boxabl Factory Recently, the team at DBI had the exciting opportunity to visit the Boxabl factory. Based here in Las Vegas, Boxabl is a groundbreaking take on revolutionizing affordable housing. Our visit not only provided insights into the manufacturing process of their unique foldable homes [...]
What makes an outstanding portfolio? Like many architecture firm owners and hiring managers, you likely have busy days, especially if you want to add or replace someone on your team. In addition to everything else on your plate, you have to review applications — and the resumes and portfolios that [...]
5 Ways to Stay Positive When Job Hunting can help many of you looking for work at this time. I have talked with many job hunters and have heard time and time again that searching for a job is much harder than the work itself. It can feel that way. [...]
5 things you should never say to your boss. Of course, there are more than five but the five listed below are egregious. No, you don’t have to be best friends with your boss to have a successful architectural career. With that said, your boss is a key figure in [...]
Improve workplace cohesion. It can seem like a daunting request. From political opinions to differences in how to respond publicly to the pandemic, division seems to be growing in our nation. Yet, this isn’t the first time that our country has experienced significant differences. With such a wide range of [...]
Use these 4 trends to hire top design talent and your firm will add outstanding architects and interior designers to your team. With the industry evolving rapidly, architecture leaders must stay up-to-date on the latest trends in hiring and interviewing. In this article, we’ll explore four key trends shaping the [...]
How to get the best out of a recruiting firm? Architecture and recruiting firms support each other in ways not always clear. With summer winds down and kids returning to school, many firms are looking at their overall business strategies for the rest of the year. And what a year [...]
Hiring the right people can be challenging during rapid company growth. The firm feels pressured to meet all sorts of other demands during this time. Breaking the hiring habits that have worked for decades can be difficult, but the truth is that hiring processes are doomed to fail when they [...]
I recently read an article published in Architizer called “6 Way Residential Architecture Can Impact Your Health”. It is a fascinating architect about how architects and designers can create with health and wellness as their north star. But what about the rest of us already nested in our homes of [...]
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