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Recession Survey for ASLA 2020 - Young Professionals

Recession Survey for ASLA 2020 - Young Professionals

This survey is conducted for the ASLA 2020 conference education session “Perpetual Adaptation: The design business in 2020 and lessons from the Great Recession”.  Given the events of 2020, the presenters are shifting the discussion from what worked in 2008 to comparing and contrasting 2008 and what firms and professionals are experiencing in 2020.  The intention is to share lessons learned, collect advice, and to shed a light on what can sometimes feel mysterious in the competitive pursuit of employment.  The secondary intent is to reveal our collective experience as professionals, and show those that may be struggling to enter the profession that they are not alone, and there are many paths to one’s career.  The results of this survey will be presented at ALSA in full or part, and full results may be publicly posted.  Note, names of any companies, individuals, or identifiable descriptions will be removed from any written comments in presentation or distribution of data.
 
2. Do you consider yourself someone who was an emerging professional during the Great Recession (Dec. 2007- June 2009, slow recovery to 2011)?  *This question is required.
3. Do you consider yourself an emerging professional during the Coronavirus Recession (March 2020-?)?  *This question is required.
4. Did you work as a landscape designer, planner, architect after graduation? *This question is required.
7. What were the top three most relevant strategies for how you secured your first job in landscape architecture or a related position?
  Note: for the following table each column is restricted to a single answer across all rows.
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8. Were you laid off or suffered from partial or full unemployment due to the Great Recession? (Note, being asked to work full time but being compensated part-time qualifies as partial unemployment).  
9. Were you laid off or suffered from partial or full unemployment due to the Coronavirus Recession? (Note, being asked to work full time but being compensated part-time qualifies as partial unemployment).  
 
10. If you made it through the Great Recession, keeping your position or moving positions because of your personal preference, please select which of the following may apply to your experience:
 
11. If you lost your job during the great recession, please pick which best describes your experience:
 
13. What advice would you want to share with ASLA on how the organization could better support unemployed landscape architects? 
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