For Employers
National Occupational Standards (NOS) are “standards of competence” developed by industry, for industry. NOS can help you identify what best performance is when looking at job roles or activities.
NOS are a powerful benchmarking tool, which specify the knowledge and understanding needed to perform specific tasks and can therefore improve the productivity of your business by:
- Supporting your transition to low carbon practice and operations
- Assisting senior staff with people management and development
- Assisting towards gaining Investors in People Status
- Identifying emerging skills needs
- Creating a competence based job description
- Increased confidence in standards of work performance that will be achieved
- Improving skill levels thereby delivering value for money
- Assisting with the appropriate allocation of work
Employer Resources
The CIC Professional Services Skills Survey revealed that many employers face difficulties when recruiting appropriate staff. Use of the Occupational Standards can help in the recruitment process. They can be used as a benchmark when producing person specifications and assessing candidates.
If you would like to find out about current or future employment, skills and training needs visit the
ConstructionSkills Network and download the Blueprint for Construction.
Are you interested in developing new qualifications? We can provide help and support, contact Patricia Behal at pbehal@cic.org.uk for more information.
Explore our current generic NOS applicable to all higher level disciplines in the built environment
Explore the occupational NOS
Use our NOS Finder tool to find specific Standards
For more information on UK qualifications and progression visit the CIC Built Environment Careers Map
