Before enrolling on any training course, it’s always important to be sure it can address the gaps in your knowledge and enable you to progress your career to the next level. With RICS offering three distance learning programmes on valuation, trainer Kate Taylor FRICS reflects on her early career to help explain how each course could be relevant to you.
Valuation: Foundation Programme – for a holistic overview
"In my early career as a valuer there were many areas where I felt less confident and which I hadn’t studied before at university. I would have loved a course like Valuation Foundation to give me the holistic overview I needed as a stepping stone to building experience and developing further professionally."
Valuation: Commercial Property - the tools needed to tackle this complex area
"It’s easy to get lost in commercial property valuation, as it is complex and wide ranging. I found academic study too brief and narrow in focus, and I found software took over and endangered valuer insight. I wish this course had been available to provide the tools I needed to tackle complex valuation without panic and frustration. It would have been great to learn these skills as part of a community, like you find with this distance learning programme."
Valuation: Residential Property - giving this subject the focus it deserves
"If you work for a big residential valuation provider and you have access to in house training - you are the lucky few! I didn’t and this made my role challenging. The academic literature available in this area is limited and most study at a higher level is about commercial valuation. This course gives residential valuation the focus it deserves and adds depth and breadth to support practicing valuers and APC candidates."
Interested in finding out more? All three courses are next enrolling from the end of February 2017 - click here for more details.