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RICS Recruit offers a wide range of articles giving tips from interviews, CVs, career development and the latest news from the surveying industry.

  • Becoming an RICS Member

    • 30 Mar 2021
    • RICS Recruit

    Becoming a member of RICS opens up a world of opportunities. Take a look at why you should consider RICS qualification if you want to get ahead in your career.

  • RICS Member Spotlight: Andrew J Crawford BSc (Hons), FRICS

    • 18 Mar 2024
    • RICS Recruit

    RICS spoke with Andrew J Crawford BSc (Hons), FRICS, FCIArb, MSc, PG Dip, APAEWE about his experience of becoming a surveyor and starting his own business

  • Career progression pathways for Quantity Surveyors

    • 23 Feb 2024
    • RICS Recruit

    Navigate your path to success: learn about development opportunities for quantity surveyors, with strategies and insights to help you secure your next role.

  • Interviewing for Building Surveyor roles

    • 13 Nov 2023
    • RICS Recruit

    Preparing for a new building surveyor role? Make an impression with these 8 building surveyor interview questions.

  • A guide to planning your surveyor career path

    • 23 Oct 2023
    • RICS Recruit

    Career planning is integral to success. Use Role Insights to take that next step on your surveyor career path.

  • Natalie Chiku, MRICS

    RICS Member Spotlight with Natalie Chiku MRICS

    • 20 Oct 2023
    • RICS Recruit

    RICS spoke with Natalie Chiku, MRICS. An Estate Surveyor at Hertsmere Borough Council, about her journey to become a surveyor.

  • Nelly Mbugua, OGW, MRICS

    10 Minutes with Nelly Mbugua, MRICS from Kenya

    • 19 Sep 2023
    • RICS Recruit

    RICS spoke with Nelly Mbugua, OGW, MRICS, Managing Director of Citiscape Valuers & Estate Agents Ltd, about her career as a surveyor and her experience as the first woman to serve as Deputy President of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya.

  • A guide to building control jobs

    A guide to building control jobs

    • 9 Jun 2023
    • RICS Recruit

    Building control surveyors are in high demand. From skill to salary progression: here’s what you need to know about building control jobs.

  • A guide to quantity surveying jobs

    A Guide To Quantity Surveying Jobs

    • 3 Apr 2023
    • RICS Recruit

    Quantity surveyors are in high demand. From skill to salary progression: here’s what you need to know about quantity surveying jobs.

  • Looking at World

    10 Ways to Work Effectively Across Cultures

    • 10 Mar 2023
    • RICS Recruit

    RICS Recruit’s top ten tips for working across cultures could help you approach cross-cultural interactions a little differently.

  • A guide to graduate building surveying jobs

    A guide to graduate building surveying jobs

    • 27 Jan 2023
    • RICS Recruit

    Graduate building surveyors are in high demand. From skill to salary progression: here’s what you need to know about graduate building surveying jobs.

  • Seven ways to work effectively across time zones

    Seven ways to work effectively across time zones

    • 6 Dec 2022
    • RICS Recruit

    Working across time zones can feel like a juggling act. It’s not easy to collaborate and keep team spirit high across different time zones but despite these challenges, most organisations in surveying will find the benefits of working across time zones outweigh the limitations.

  • Breaking into the surveying industry

    Breaking into the surveying industry

    • 8 Nov 2022
    • RICS Recruit

    Being a surveyor is a fascinating and rewarding career. There are a variety of areas to work within the industry including the built environment, property, land and construction. Read on to find the key information about breaking into the surveying industry.

  • How to Combat the Impact of the Cost of Living as a Surveyor

    • 17 Aug 2022
    • RICS Recruit

    With soaring energy, food, transport, and housing costs, many people are struggling or foresee challenges ahead. Below we have shared a range of our top tips that can help surveyors to help themselves during this challenging time.

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    5 top tips when it comes to your surveying CV

    • 4 Aug 2022
    • RICS Recruit

    We caught up with Madeline Cooling, Managing Director at Aldwych Consulting for her insight on what employers engage with when looking at applicant CVs.

  • Stressed colleague

    Stress management in surveying

    • 7 Jul 2022
    • RICS Recruit

    What can cause stress for surveyors in the industry, and ways to deal and mitigate these causes.

  • Man on construction site

    Becoming a surveyor in the post-pandemic era

    • 29 Jun 2022
    • RICS Recruit

    Learn more about the different routes to becoming a surveyor in the post-pandemic world.

  • Why you should consider going client-side

    • 25 Jun 2021
    • RICS Recruit

    Two senior RICS surveyors reveal the benefits of leaving the traditional surveying career path and going client-side.

  • Why every candidate needs to know proptech and how to use it

    • 23 Jun 2021
    • RICS Recruit

    Employers expect you to know how to use latest surveying tools but it’s also about how you apply that knowledge

  • How to take advantage of the job market as a quantity surveyor

    • 21 Jun 2021
    • RICS Recruit

    Quantity surveying is a profession that is in demand. But what are the skills you need as a quantity surveyor to get the best jobs and the best choice?