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Candidate quantity surveyors face many challenges on their road to professional registration. A candidate quantity surveyor is one who has completed a tertiary qualification in a quantity surveying programme from an accredited institution but does not yet have the required work experience to work on their own. They have to work under the supervision of a Professional Quantity Surveyor until they have acquired enough experience of between 3 and 5 years to register as a professional quantity surveyor. The aim of this paper was to identify the challenges the candidates in South Africa face during these 3–5 years and possible solutions to these challenges to help candidates be better prepared in the future. This was a quantitative study in which 52 random participants were emailed a link to the Google form questionnaire. Forty valid responses were received. The findings of the questionnaires revealed that the main challenges candidates faced were the transitioning from university into the world of work, filling out the logbooks, lack of mentorship and inadequate technological and software skills. The solutions provided to overcome these challenges were to increase mentorship to guide the candidates, encourage candidates to learn new technologies and software and that they should be willing to adapt to changes in the working environment. It was also found that involving the candidate from inception to close out gave them a better understanding of their job and the industry.
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Harinarain, N., Joosab, D., Vawda, H. (2023). Overcoming the Challenges Candidate Quantity Surveyors Face on the Route to Professional Registration. In: Haupt, T.C., Akinlolu, M., Simpeh, F., Amoah, C., Armoed, Z. (eds) Construction in 5D: Deconstruction, Digitalization, Disruption, Disaster, Development. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 245. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97748-1_37
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