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This is a country-by-country guide to how to get a job or to obtain work experience as a landscape architecture student or newly qualified professional. Le Notre, EFLA and ELASA correspondents, compiles it. This document is a beginning of that guide and covers so far Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, with a brief note on the USA. The hope is that this guide might be placed in the public domain of landscape web sites and indeed, we would suggest that it could become a world-wide guide. Currently this guide is carried on the www.efla.org, www.elasa.org, www.le-notre.org and http://www.iflaonline.org/ websites.
Please send a note for your own country to the editor, Robert Holden, on RobertHolden13@aol.com. A checklist of what to include is:
· contacts and directories of landscape architecture practices or employers,
· job adverts and vacancies,
· payment and salaries (if any),
· a note on the structure of internships or work experience as part of employment,
· a note on how to apply and what employers expect,
· employment prospects,
· ensure your entry is dated and please do update it.
In addition to the professional bodies noted below, who have lists of landscape architecture offices, applicants should also refer to national telephone directories under their business pages (”yellow pages”). e.g. http://www.infobel.com/teldir/
Also, do contact me if you have comments on the current guide or additional suggestions.
Robert HoldenGenerallyAt the beginning of 2006 reports in Europe were that the best countries for employment opportunities are Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy (a recent development) and the United Kingdom. This is certainly still the case in the UK. The situation in Germany is reported to continue to difficult for student and recent graduate employment. ASLA reports that employment and salaries are buoyant in the USA. Outside of large conurbations you do have to search and be prepared to move, there is an excouraging growth of recruitment agencies handling landscape architects in the UK (see the national section below).
Robert Holden 26.2.2006
Worthwhile Europe-wide web sites include http://europa.eu.int/eures/ where there is quite a lot of interesting information about working abroad within the EU. For instance the “Living & Working” section which has information related to living and working in different European countries. E.g. For France; about how to apply for a job there, how the social security systems work, etc.
“CV-Online” is helpful for people searching for a job in a foreign country. Interesting is the link to the European CV: http://www.cedefop.eu.int/transparency/cv.asp and this gives you a format for a curriculum vita. Of course, it is only useful if potential employers know the site. Within the “Find a job” section, I found two job offers for landscape
Architects (I did a keyword search for “landscape”): one in Ireland (Environmental Resources Mana) and one in the NL (West 8).
Mathias Voell 10.1.2004