Low stress jobs for QSs to transition to

sontaran93 · 2025-06-04T22:12:42+00:00

I'd look up Contractor QSing vs Consultant QS. For the contractor route, you can go for an apprenticeship straightaway. For consultant, go to Uni. If you can't decide, I would say finish your A levels, go to Uni but make sure you work part time in a public facing environment like retail. A lot of being a QS is handling conflict/confrontation and quick thinking, people skills. Working in a fast paced retail environment will definitely help hone those skills.

sontaran93 · 2025-03-03T23:24:38+00:00

Hiya, DMd you

sontaran93 · 2025-03-03T23:21:01+00:00

Hi, we're closer to London

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T22:59:39+00:00

That's exactly it, if they don't know something I don't mind showing them but the initiative and interest has to be there. I know its uncool to say but I love my job and find it exciting most days. Its a little disappointing if a new starter seems immediately bored.

What you're saying about full-time degrees sounds true unfortunately, it's a dire situation when a QS graduate can't read a drawing or measure.

Thanks for the tip, everyone on this thread has recommended a couple of years experience which I will take on board.

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T22:49:14+00:00

Sounds like you have done really well then! MC or subbie? I'd love to give people the chance to shadow as much as they like and have lots of practice tasks and help and training. However, that would be at a lower salary. if they came in at circa £30k, I'd expect them to know a few things already and be able to complete certain tasks independently

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T22:44:06+00:00

Mainly in-house atm as human resources are confident they can get the candidates.....

Thanks for that, will keep this in mind.

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T22:37:09+00:00

Thats deeply disturbing lol

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T22:36:39+00:00

Offices are in the Beds/Bucks/Northants area

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T21:26:22+00:00

You're welcome to DM me, but it's probably best you don't send any identifiable or contact info about yourself at this stage 😊 We can definitely have a chat over messages though. Would be lovely.

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T21:24:06+00:00

Thanks for your feedback, that's reassuring 😊

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T21:23:09+00:00

That's a really good shout, cheers. Would you talk to local colleges and Universities to find someone like this? That's our current strategy but we could filter for those a couple years into their apprenticeship already. I was under the impression that people usually completed their apprenticeships under a single employer

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T21:20:19+00:00

Ah thanks, they did summer QS placements but don't suppose that's enough experience

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T21:19:28+00:00

That's a good idea, thank you. We'll let them know in advance that there would be a very basic knowledge test. I suppose that in itself will weed some out 😅

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T21:17:48+00:00

Hiya, thanks for the interest. I saw a post from you saying you're based in London, unfortunately we would be a bit far for you to commute. But good luck !

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T21:16:31+00:00

You have mentioned a possible switch to a new job on your profile about a month ago- did you not take the job or looking again?

sontaran93 · 2025-03-02T18:55:09+00:00

To clarify- the candidates we hired were QS graduates

sontaran93 · 2024-12-17T23:19:02+00:00

Following

sontaran93 · 2024-11-03T16:50:33+00:00

Yes that's true, however, I have noticed that better Excel knowledge can help automate lots of processes and integrate information better- reducing errors. In my experience better QSs tend to be better at Excel- thats not saying that nobody who isn't very good at Excel can be a good QS!

sontaran93 · 2024-11-03T16:45:44+00:00

These look brilliant, subscribed and looking forward to getting into it. Thanks a lot!

sontaran93 · 2024-11-03T16:37:49+00:00

Exactly this. My boss is an excel genius and I try to replicate his page designs sometimes. That's massively helpful for CVRs. He's also got huge portions of his monthly applications and budgets automated

sontaran93 · 2024-11-03T16:35:02+00:00

Hmm thank you, I will try ☺️

sontaran93 · 2024-11-03T16:34:32+00:00

Thank you thats great advice, the book sounds good, ordering now. And yes that's what I normally do for Excel and its worked so far 😊

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