18th April 2013, 03:32 PM
The scheme as far as I am concerned is for students plus... starting you off into the market. you should then be gaining more skills and keeping a CPD log ( you are doing that aren't you)
The first wave will indeed be self validated... but hey... sheet happens... and this is a short lived act... which soon balances itself out. ie... if I see no evidence of survey taking place within the last 3 years... I am hardly likely to employ you as a surveyor. So this is not the panacea for all ills... it is a leg of a stool. CPD ---- Passport ----- CV put them together and you can have confidence in personnel. as to self employed. well that is the same as anyone else. I go out on training with a dendrochronologist and I get signed off...
REMEMBER this does not mean that you are the best ---insert skill ---- there is -- it means you have done it, and either understood it just -- understood it with help --- understood it. I would like to see people use it as a guide to where they want to go, and for companies to use it as a guide to what the person is capable of.
BINGO!! thanks for that strapline Kevin
The first wave will indeed be self validated... but hey... sheet happens... and this is a short lived act... which soon balances itself out. ie... if I see no evidence of survey taking place within the last 3 years... I am hardly likely to employ you as a surveyor. So this is not the panacea for all ills... it is a leg of a stool. CPD ---- Passport ----- CV put them together and you can have confidence in personnel. as to self employed. well that is the same as anyone else. I go out on training with a dendrochronologist and I get signed off...
REMEMBER this does not mean that you are the best ---insert skill ---- there is -- it means you have done it, and either understood it just -- understood it with help --- understood it. I would like to see people use it as a guide to where they want to go, and for companies to use it as a guide to what the person is capable of.
Quote:Skills passport just confirms a level of practical experience.....
BINGO!! thanks for that strapline Kevin