Top 3 Ways to Attract the Best Talent to Your Studio

Want to hire the best talent for your architectural studio?

It’s not as easy as it may sound because the job market is currently in favour of the candidates, and the best candidates know this. You must put your best foot forward or you may lose great talent to your competitors.

Here are a few ways to attract the best architectural talent to your studio:

1.    Do Not Focus on Money Only

Many firms believe that money is the only thing that employees look for when searching for a job.  While this may be true for some, most candidates favour benefits and intangible factors, like workplace culture.

Reflect on your workplace culture and see if you are providing a healthy environment to your employees along with other benefits, such as Paid parental leave, Gym/fitness centre, Education and Study assistance, Volunteer days etc. Your goals should be to make your employees feel invited, valued, and encouraged so that they can give their best to your studio.

2.    Provide Work from Home Facility

Candidates these days place huge importance on work-life balance. Majority of the workforce wants employers to provide the work from home opportunity. Its horses for courses, especially in smaller studios where wider studio collaboration is important. Its challenging to bring the team together if they are offsite, however video conferencing is assisting in this space.

According to experts, allowing your staff to work from home even if its two to three days a month will give you an edge over your competitors.

3.    Open up Leadership Positions for Everyone

Gone are the times when the positions of Managers, Leaders, Associates and above were only open for the senior staff in a studio. People prefer to work in a studio that provides equal growth opportunities to everyone. They also prefer studios where the leadership is diversified among people from different generations. This not only helps the studio by enhancing thought leadership, but it also conveys the message that you are open to collaboration, change, and innovation.

At Glue Recruitment it's our view that these are the best three ways in today's market to attract the best talent to your studio.