Resume Guide

An architecture resume is read in two minutes by someone who has thirty more to read after yours. Every line has to earn its place. Every line has to communicate what you can contribute to a project, to a team, to a firm, without a second pass.

Most student resumes fail in predictable ways: bullet points that describe duties instead of contributions, technical skills listed without context, project work that reads like a portfolio caption. The fix is structural, not cosmetic.

This guide walks through fourteen pieces of a strong architecture resume: format and structure, the header, education and experience sections, technical skills, quantifying your impact, ATS formatting, and a self-editing pass. Each section is short. Move through them in order or skip to the one that is hardest for you.