Accelerate Your Journey with Mentorship

The interests of architecture students and emerging architects lie at the heart of ArchiPal’s business model. From the time a student enrols in an architectural course they will have an option to digitally record their architectural journey on ArchiPal’s portal, through a personalised dashboard and dedicated web space. This is where all their projects will be recorded and where they can interact with their connections and display their skill set in the form of badges earned, comments and reviews from customers, and recommendations sought. This will help increase their employability should they opt to list their profile publically; employers can follow this emerging talent pool. However, a dedicated job board will also be set up for employers to post architecture-related jobs

Resume career services or workshops typically provide an outdated version of how to update your resume. Although there’s lots of applicable advice, it’s general and not done by industry experts who have worked in the field.

Most importantly, these services offer no solution to bypass automated tracking systems. These systems automatically filter out applicants if they don’t match a particular subset of skills for an industry.

The Pals of Architecture is working in the academic and professional networks. Because of this, our ArchiMentors know exactly how to reframe an individual’s experiences.

Each member’s credibility and professional service standards are first verified through their professional registration and prescribed code of conduct. Second, they are endorsed by peers who are familiar with their work and career progression. Third, they are also judged on the basis of their client reviews and, finally, through word of mouth and personal recommendation, as the whole platform operates on localised network of its community members. Moreover, when commissioning a member for a job, clients will have the option to nominate a mentor or an architectural guru to oversee and monitor the progress of the project, or to perform a one-time project appraisal review, where they submit a written report confirming the quality of the work, or an additional hourly fee.

The interests of architecture students and emerging architects lie at the heart of ArchiPal’s business model. From the time a student enrols in an architectural course they will have an option to digitally record their architectural journey on ArchiPal’s portal, through a personalised dashboard and dedicated web space. This is where all their projects will be recorded and where they CAN interact with their connections and display their skill set in the form of badges earned, comments and reviews from customers, and recommendations sought. This will help increase their employability should they opt to list their profile publically; employers can follow this emerging talent pool. However, a dedicated job board will also be set up for employers to post architecture-related jobs.

Apart from mentoring emerging architects, the ArchiMentor program also plans to offer high school students the best opportunities and awareness around careers in the design and construction industry, free of cost. Some of ArchiPal’s profits will be used to set up an ARCHIPAL scholarship program for young learners and to support emerging architects to enhance their learning activities through promotional discounts and freebies based on their acivities and prerformance on the ArchiPal platform. A blog will also be set up, which members will be invited to submit articles to, with compensation tied to response.

The overarching goal of ArchiPal is to fill the gap that curently exists within architectural academia and practice due to which emerging architects are unable to to make a smooth transition from academia to practice. Endorsement from architectural institutions and professional organisations will be a key factor in the launch and success of such an initiative. With the support and involvement of architectural practices who are willing to allow students to shadow their projects which fall within students local areas, this project can materialise with very low investment. Through a social cause, community engagement and an institutional fit, this project enables early understanding of theory and practice for students, offering case studies of small Live-Projects. Furthermore, this can have a potentially wider impact and outreach by creating awareness and promoting the architectural profession and the role of architects in society .