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School’s The Key To More Women Surveyors

Charlotte Williams urging women into surveying
07 March 2018
 

Charlotte Williams has urged schools to do more to make young women aware of surveying as a career.

 

For International Women’s Day on March 8, graduate surveyor Charlotte Williams has urged schools to do more to make young women aware of surveying as a career.

Williams, 24, who is completing her training at national property consultancy Bruton Knowles in Guildford, said: “The only careers advice I was given at school was to be a plumber.

“I’d like to see more schools inviting surveyors to careers sessions. Engaging with young people, especially girls, during their A-Level years would help them make informed decisions about their future.

“We also need to be more vocal about the profession ourselves as it isn’t well understood by those outside of the industry.”

 

Permission to qualify

Women were first permitted to qualify as surveyors in the 1920s with surveyors Irene Martin and Evelyn Perry hailed as early pioneers of their profession. Currently 26% of women enrol as trainee surveyors and make up 14% of the membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

“People would be surprised just how often a surveyor is involved in things they engage with in everyday life,” added Williams. “Surveying is a wide ranging profession covering a large number of different areas from land and property to national infrastructure projects. Housing and assets always need to be valued, business parks don’t manage themselves, pipelines and roads need to be built.”

Over the past 18 months Williams, a University of York Environmental Sciences alumnus, has worked with key clients including Surrey Police, Morrisons Utility Services, Southern Water, Network Rail, Kent County Council and private management clients.

She is aiming to qualify as a commercial surveyor this autumn and is keen to move further into Compulsory Purchase Order surveying, access and rights work and rural valuations.

Picture: Charlotte Williams. For more information about what it is like to work as a surveyor visit: www.rics.org.uk.

Article written by Cathryn Ellis | Published 07 March 2018

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