GRADUATE

As a graduate starting a career in urban consulting, you want to get started in the best possible way on your road to success.  JFP offers a unique set of advantages that provide an edge in establishing long term success.  Many JFP graduates have gone on to forge highly successful careers due to the advantages that JFP offers young urban consulting professionals.  These advantages include;

• Experienced Mentors – At JFP you will be part of a team, lead by a highly experienced manager, who also acts as your professional mentor.  JFP’s preference for small professional teams means that graduates have direct access to highly experienced professional mentors who assist them to learn all aspects of their profession.
• Opportunities to learn critical skills –An advantage offered by JFP’s team approach is that graduates are given early ‘ownership’ and  responsibility for a wide range of critical skills.  This encourages graduates to grow and develop into well rounded professionals. Exposure to a wide variety of professionals – By working in a multi-disciplinary team at JFP, including planners, urban designers, engineers, surveyors and landscape architects, graduates learn to understand the various components needed to create memorable urban environments which satisfy client objectives. 
• Support with further study – Employees are encouraged to enrol in further education and support is provided as necessary.
• Career paths – A variety of interesting and challenging career paths are available to graduates at JFP.  These include career paths within ones own profession, the ability to develop multi-disciplinary skills and the opportunity to learn business management skills.

The outcomes from JFP’s approach to graduate employment are impressive.  Powerful supporting evidence is the fact that over 70% of JFP’s senior managers commenced their careers as a graduate or near graduate at JFP.  Further evidence  of JFP’s approach to graduate employment is the large number of people who have gone on to forge successful careers as urban environment professionals after starting at JFP.  A number of former JFP graduates have achieved significant success as;

• Local Government Councillors
• Urban Developers
• Development Managers for major urban developers
• Senior Government officials

If you are looking for a solid foundation  on which to base your career, you should seriously consider the advantages that employment with JFP offers graduates.