Application Process

To apply for a graduate or student placement/internship position, the first thing you need to do is apply online.

These forms have been designed to ensure we have all the information we need to progress your application. We strongly encourage you to apply as soon as possible as there’s a limit to the number of positions we have available.

We understand that you may find it difficult to choose which of our specific disciplines to apply for. Our application form therefore enables you to express a preference for:

• One of our three operating areas Buildings, Environment + Infrastructure, or Consulting.
• Specific disciplines
• Location where you’d like to work

Once you’ve completed your application form you will be emailed a username and password for the Buro Happold Application System, so that you can keep a close eye on your application’s progress. As part of our selection process we may also telephone you to discuss the information on your application form.

We encourage our graduates to move around early in their career, so if we do not meet your preferred location or discipline it will be because we think you will do better in a different area - enjoy the experience!

The application form is split into sections to gather the following key information:

• Contact details
• Pre-university education, including all subjects studied and grades achieved
• Degree and post-graduate degree details (if applicable), including all subjects/modules studied and grades achieved in each year and/or expected to achieve
• Relevant work experience
• An area for you to describe what it is you feel you would bring or could contribute to Buro Happold
• Your preferred discipline and location and reasons for selecting these. Please note that we cannot guarantee you being placed in your preferred location
• Work permit details or eligibility status for the locations you are stating a preference for.

Tips

• Do make sure you make note of your user-name and password to enable you to return to an incomplete application
• Do ensure you have the key information specified above to hand to make completing the application form easier
• Do make note of our initial application closing dates and ensure you submit your application in time. The application form will take approx 1 hour to complete
• Do make sure you enter the information as accurately as possible, especially contact details
• Do be open and honest in the answers that you give
• Do take your time to fill in all the questions
• Do copy and paste your responses into our form
• Do print out your completed application form for your own future reference
• Don't leave your uncompleted application without saving it first.
• Don't spend hours thinking about your responses whilst connected to the Internet, print the pages and think about your responses off-line. You may need to refer back to this if you are invited to interview.
• Don't submit your application unless you are completely satisfied with it and you have answered all the relevant questions. 

If you are invited for interview, remember: it’s an opportunity, not an interrogation! It’s as much a chance for us to sell Buro Happold to you, as it is for you to introduce and sell yourself to us. You will also be able to spend time with graduates who joined us the previous year, so you can hear from the horse’s mouth what life at Buro Happold is really like!

You will be asked to bring along examples of work developed during your university course. We find this is a great way to get you talking about what you have been doing and for us to ask questions. Above all, we want to see and hear your passion and enthusiasm, your desire and ambition.