Podcast · Episode 0227 · 48:40
Switching Careers from Architecture to Real Estate: Ft. Aqeel Sourjah at Quadrant Estates
Aqeel Sourjah shares his move from architecture into real estate development, including work on major office projects.
Career Change & New Directions
Your architecture experience can open more than one door. Hear from people who moved into development, technology, marketing and other roles, then plan how to explain your own next move.
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Tanisha Raffiuddin discusses storytelling, marketing and alternative careers connected to architecture.
Reading & tools
Put it to work.
Choose a useful next step from what you’ve heard.
Development & real estate
See how architecture experience can transfer.
Explore the move into development and project management through Dolunay Dogahan’s experience.
Alternative careers
Give yourself more than one possible route.
Read perspectives on moving beyond traditional practice, then identify the skills and responsibilities you want to carry into your next role.
Applications
Translate your experience for a different employer.
Make project responsibility, communication and commercial understanding clear. Choose examples the new role will recognise.
Moving on
Leave well and plan the handover.
Think through notice, relationships and the practical steps between roles. The interiors guide covers questions that can help frame that conversation.
People & practice
Meet the people behind the ideas.
Meet the people and practices featured in these conversations.