Placement Services for Job Seekers…

Design and Manage Your Career with CFA

Looking for your next challenge, a more flexible work environment, or simply exploring opportunities? At Consulting for Architects, Inc. (CFA), we connect architects and interior designers with New York City’s leading design firms. Since 1984, we’ve helped professionals expand their portfolios and accelerate their careers with temporary, project-to-hire, and permanent roles.

Focus on Your Projects — Let Us Do the Searching
As a CFA consultant, you can concentrate on your current work while we identify your next opportunity. Choose from diverse projects and career paths at top firms. Whether you prefer contract flexibility or want to test the waters before accepting a full-time offer, CFA gives you options that fit your goals.

Stay Informed, Automatically

• Job Agent Email: Get tailored job alerts straight to your inbox based on your criteria here. Create Job Agent.

• Mobile Jobs App: Be the first to know about new architecture and design job openings in NYC with the CFA mobile app here. Consulting For Architects app

Placement Services for Hiring Firms…

Profit From the CFA Advantage

When deadlines loom and projects demand talent, CFA delivers. Whether you need Revit experts, CAD specialists, project managers, or senior designers, we provide pre-screened, highly qualified professionals who can step in and contribute immediately.

Why CFA?

• Founded by David McFadden, a published interior designer with training in architecture and design — giving us unmatched industry insight.

• A proven network built from reviewing and evaluating thousands of portfolios since 1984.

• A flexible staffing model that helps you avoid costly hiring mistakes while keeping projects on schedule and budget.

• Expertise across project-based staffing, project-to-permanent, and direct hires.

Build a Better Business
The professionals we place bring the creativity, technical ability, and persistence to help your firm thrive. They’re not just filling roles — they’re adding value, improving profitability, and helping you build a stronger practice.

The following are many examples of the types of positions for which CFA recruits. Click here.

Autodesk Skills Assessments for Clients and Candidates…

Evaluate Your Skills. Establish Your Credibility.
We assess our candidates’ Autodesk skills before we present them to our clients. Our Assessment is a cutting-edge, flexible and fully scalable skills assessment tool. Designed from the ground up  to enhance our comprehensive candidate search and qualification procedures. This unique tool helps our recruiters evaluate today’s top professionals in a real-world office situation. For hiring firms we can customize our assessments. There is no limit to the type of questions that can be asked or the topics those questions can cover.

Bringing CAD Assessments to the Next Level.
Our Assessments are valuable, professional credentials, which are recognized standards for design software proficiency in a professional office setting. Candidates who avail themselves to these programs are much better prepared for success in both the job market and the workplace.

Also available directly to clients.
Independently evaluate your staff and new employees with assessments customized with office standards. For purchasing, please contact CFA at (212) 532-4360

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