Abstract:
Improvement of hard and soft skills, job security and other
employment considerations are influenced by the education and
training of a candidate professional who is keen to register with
a built environment statutory council in South Africa.
Methodology:
The study, which is reported upon in this paper qualitatively
assessed how candidate built environment professionals perceive
their work in relation to their quest for professional registration.
The phenomenological study underpinning this paper used faceto-
face interviews to interrogate the issues among purposively
selected professionals who are working towards professional
registration with statutory councils affiliated with the Council for
the Built Environment (CBE) in South Africa.
Results:
The study shows that the majority of the interviewees agree
that employers need to promote training programmes that
would assists candidate professional in South Africa. The main
reason for this assertion is centred on the need for candidate
professionals align their training with the requirements of
registration councils.
Value:
Candidate professions that participate in employer assisted
training programmes would be more secured about future
employment prospects in the industry.
