WELCOME TO
Shay Klaassen
Architectural Designer in Sydney, Australia.
Master of Architecture (Professional) at The University of Auckland.
“During university honestly, I was lost.
I was that one student struggling to barely pass papers, while it looked like the other students were breezing through them and learning design software such as Rhino and Grasshopper was an absolute drag - I had a tutor tell me “your work is nowhere near the quality of the other students, why are you even here?” I seriously thought I just wasn’t made for architecture. Here’s my literal grades from my first 2 years:
In university I dreamed of being able to move country and work at a prestigious firm and be one of those crazy students out-competing everyone. I dedicated myself to this for the next 3 years to find ways I could beat the system and how to truly come out on top - throughout this journey I went from the literal bottom ranking student to becoming the top student of my architecture school.
After becoming the top student of my school I decided why not apply to the best architecture firms in Australia, and then… I got the job almost instantly. So I packed my bags, got on airplane and now I work at a tier 1 architecture firm in Sydney, Australia. I learned so many valuable lessons throughout this process - I’ve decided to share the ENTIRE BLUEPRINT that got me to where I am today and to share it with YOU.
The blueprint has been set up into a 6-step-process, from beginning with all the software that I know, all the way to dominating job interviews and capturing the attention from the HR managers - to make YOU STAND OUT above the rest.