RICS are running more assessment/recruitment courses to add members to our commercial panel.

It is always a difficult balancing act to ensure sufficient panel members to match the types of application received, whilst giving panel members opportunity to keep their dispute resolution skills honed.

When recruiting, priority is given to specific areas where we have identified shortages.

The arbitrator course ran earlier this year concentrated on recruiting surveyors who specialise in retail warehouses and also surveyors able to act on telecom mast sites.

These surveyors will shortly be added to our panel and we hope our customers will start to notice improvements in the time taken to make appointments.

We are particularly looking for:

• Birmingham office rent review specialists;
• Surveyors in Bristol, particularly those specialising in office rent reviews;
• Rent review surveyors in Kent, East Anglia and Yorkshire;
• Rent review surveyor able to act on garden centres, children’s nurseries and medical practices;

Surveyors who can act nationally on residential development land disputes and major residential rent or valuation disputes, particularly in London.

Surveyors should have at least 10 years post qualification experience and be actively involved in their specialist areas. Rent review surveyors should be actively involved in representing clients in arbitrations or expert determinations.

Independent Expert course 10 and 11 April 2008

This is an assessment/recruitment course to add members to RICS commercial panel.

Candidates will be required to complete an assessed assignment and pass an interview panel

Cost £1,200 plus VAT

University of Warwick Conference Centre

Arbitrator course 4-6 July and 12-14 September 2008

This is an assessment/recruitment course to add members to RICS commercial panel.

Candidates must be able to attend both weekends and will complete an assignment between the first and second weekend and complete an award writing exercise during the second weekend.

There is a further assignment to complete at the end of the course and candidates must then pass an interview panel.

Cost £2,250 plus VAT

University of Warwick Conference Centre

For further information, please contact Carol Goodall, Quality and Training Manager on cgoodall@rics.org