Reply To: Fresh graduate stuck and need advice

[Wes Arola, RLA]

These are all great suggestions. Many firms are going towards BIM (Revit) and Civil 3D which there are courses in. Also if you already are a wiz at Sketchup, I’d look in to rendering programs and render some of your old projects from your portfolio.  If you could get some sort of certificate or credible experience with those programs, I would think that would be just as valuable (if not more) than landscape construction or nursery experience. Both would be ideal.  Any entry level openings these days, in my opinion, are going to be for production/drafting work because of a surge in the workload. Thats reality. The faster and more experienced you are at CAD, Sketchup, Revit, etc… the more appealing you will be to those job openings in today’s environment. I would welcome other’s thoughts on my opinion.

Best of luck!