Hi guys,
Can somenone help me with a few issues I have to move to London?
I'm Portuguese, I have European Level 4 in Civil construction (vocational) and European Level 5 in Topography (vocational as well), where can I get equivalences to the topography course?
What other documents should I get before I start looking for a job?
Thank you all,
Regards,
A Santos
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Hello Gil,
With regards to courses there is a bit of a shortage of supply at the moment. HNC courses seemed to have ceased so the options are university degrees/ masters depending on the relevance of your qualifications, or the Worcester Survey school: http://www.surveyschool.co.uk/en/index.html. Should you wish to go down the uni route the University of East London has a surveying course as well as UCL. Be aware however all of these options are not cheap in particular the university courses.
As far as getting a job in surveying is concerned there is currently a lot of work going around, however the issue is that you will find is that companies want trained staff as opposed to assistants... I was in this exact position around 10 years ago and I just went on line and got every number of all of the London surveying firms and rang them up. It only takes one firm to offer you a position.
Good Luck
Guido