Recruitment

Architecture & Design

Portfolio Review

Once you enrol in this Masterclass, the progress bar below becomes your personal timeline, tracking every lesson you complete from start to finish. Work through each module at your own pace and your progress updates automatically, keeping you focused and on track.

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Price

£150.00

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Projects.

AE Recruitment has placed architects and designers into some of the most respected studios and high-profile projects across the Middle East and Europe. That means the advice inside the AE Masterclass is shaped by real hiring conversations, real shortlists and real market expectations, not generic career theory.

Every studio featured here has been part of an AE Recruitment placement. This masterclass is built from the conversations, briefs and hiring decisions that shaped those projects — giving you direct insight into what these studios actually expect from candidates at every level.

Masterclass content.

Your portfolio should do more than show past work. It should make hiring managers quickly understand your level, your thinking, your role, and why you are worth interviewing.

Too often, talented architects and designers get overlooked because their work is not being presented clearly enough. This review helps you fix that with direct feedback based on how portfolios are actually assessed by studios.

  • Focused portfolio audit: A live screen‑share highlights which pages work, which get skipped, and the specific edits that make your portfolio interview‑ready for top studios.
  • Project selection and narrative: Guidance to choose the right mix of projects and frame them with a clear beginning, middle and end so your story feels both compelling and commercially relevant.
  • Layout, hierarchy and flow: Practical advice on page composition, image hierarchy, typography and pacing, so reviewers can navigate your work quickly without missing the most important details.
  • Role clarity and impact: Support to clearly communicate your role, responsibilities and measurable impact on each project, whether you are an individual contributor or leading multi‑disciplinary teams.
  • Region‑specific expectations: Tailored insight into how portfolios are evaluated in the Middle East and Europe, including format, length, file type and what senior decision‑makers expect at each level.
  • Actionable takeaways: You leave with a refined portfolio structure, a clear framework for future updates and a practical checklist you can apply to every new project you add.
  • Results: Typical outcomes include: more interview invites from target studios and more confident, focused interviews.

Portfolio Review

Investment

£150/750 AED per 30 minutes

Due to popular demand, choose the level of review that matches the stage you are at. Whether you need a focused professional opinion or a deeper critique. Each booking is built around direct access to Hayley’s expert eye, time scaled according to the depth of feedback you’re looking for.

1 x Quantity = 30 minutes

Informed by live hiring feedback

AE Recruitment has placed architects and designers into Foster + Partners, Kettle Collective, Killa Design and other leading studios across the Middle East and Europe. This Masterclass is built from decades of direct client feedback.. not theory.

You can piece this knowledge together slowly, through trial and error. However, we’re here to help you skip the testing and get you to a place where your profile is extremely marketable.

Learn,in a focused format, what hiring directors are actually looking for when they decide who to interview, who to remember and who to overlook.

27+ years.

In international architectural and design recruitment

Tier 1 studios.

Direct client partnerships across the Middle East & Europe

Stand out.

Make sure your work is never overlooked again.