Podcast · Episode 0037 · 40:58
Navigating Business Development and Marketing in Architecture with Alicia Yau
Alicia Yau discusses moving from architecture into business development, marketing and communications.
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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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.