WHAT WE OFFER
APC Success offers bespoke, in-house APC training to many pre-eminent organisations and real estate firms, as well as for individual candidates.
APC Courses
Whomever we are training in preparation for their APC – and indeed for success in their professional career – our training courses help candidates to:
- Understand how to navigate their way smartly through the APC
- Ensure that their pathway and competency selections are appropriate, and that the key issues for each are understood
- Know how to use the RICS online Assessment Resource Centre (ARC) system
- Appreciate what APC assessors expect to see in a high quality APC submission
- Manage their time effectively when putting together their submission and preparing for the Final Assessment Interview
- Recognise how to improve their understanding of key concepts through targeted CPD
- Understand the importance and detail of the RICS ethical standards and how to prepare for the online RICS Ethics Assessment
- Select and then present a suitable case study
- Present well at Final Assessment Interview with confidence
- Provide an up-to-date, market-leading reference material handbook to candidates who attend our courses
APC Success provides its candidates with relevant reference material for revision purposes and always ensures that candidates appreciate how best to use their own submission as an aid to interview preparation.
COURSES
View our range of APC and property courses for candidates, supervisors, counsellors and other professionals.
Candidate support through training & coaching
- Helping candidates to appreciate what is expected of them throughout the APC
- Ascertaining appropriate competencies based upon their work activities
- Identifying key APC guidance to help them complete the APC
- Explaining which work experiences can best be used to demonstrate competency
- Reviewing submission documents to ensure the highest quality possible
- Assisting with interview preparation, including case study presentations and mock interviews
Continuing Professional Development
- Provision of Continuing Professional Development relating to aspects of the APC, including competencies and APC process
- Podcasts relating to competencies and the APC process
- Much of our CPD on key aspects of professional practice has enduring benefit for qualified Chartered Surveyors
Submission writing and interview preparation courses:
- We run courses – in-house for corporate clients or with groups of individual candidates – to help them at key stages of the APC
- Helping candidates to understand what assessors expect to see in an excellent submission – and what to avoid
- Explaining how Final Assessment Interviews work and how assessors can be convinced that candidates are competent professionals
Mentor, supervisor & APC Counsellor support
- We run courses which ensure that those helping APC candidates understand what candidates are expected to do, and provide coaching individuals
- Identifying best practice support for candidates, including agendas for APC meetings and appreciating why and when some candidates begin to struggle
- Confirming what APC Counsellors are required to have to do by the RICS
- Assisting with understanding how to use the RICS Assessment Resources Centre (ARC)
Corporate programmes and HR support
- We help organisations with multiple APC candidates to run their APC structured training programmes and lead in-house training sessions all the way through the APC process from induction to completion
- The strategic support APC Success can offer to HR teams helps organisations to design, update and maintain effective graduate and APC training programmes. This can include advice about:
- Programme timings
- Procurement of training on APC and associated skills development
- Building networks for APC support within an organisation
- Liaison with RICS
- Post-APC development and training for employees
- We also provide operational support to organisations, ensuring feedback is given to HR and/or Counsellors to ensure candidates’ progress is understood and how it can best be maintained
Continuing Professional Development
- Provision of Continuing Professional Development relating to aspects of the APC, including competencies and APC process
- Podcasts relating to competencies and the APC process
- Much of our CPD on key aspects of professional practice has enduring benefit for qualified Chartered Surveyors
MEET THE COACHES
Find out more about our industry-leading team of expert APC coaches, assessors & auditors.
Clients include:
AG&G
Allsop
Avison Young
Bruton Knowles
British Land
Cluttons
Colliers
CBRE
Cushman & Wakefield
Deloitte
GCW
Hartnell Taylor Cook
Hammerson
Jones Lang LaSalle
John Lewis Partnership
Knight Frank
KLM Retail
