Career Advice

Here are a few pointers about how best to present your abilities to potential construction industry employers.

We hope you will find this section useful whatever your level of seniority from Graduate Quantity Surveyor to Commercial Manager, from Site Engineer to Project Director and all the roles and levels in between.

We want you to have confidence that you are doing everything you can to secure the best career move available to you.  Alongside using the right construction recruitment consultancy, take a look at the following steps in the recruitment process.

Writing a Good CV: Our advice on how to attract interest and get job interviews. Includes free downloadable "CV Builder" template

Writing Covering Letters: What do you need to say?

Job Interviews: How to prepare and conduct yourself

Job Offers and Feedback: How to turn a good interview into a job offer

Resignations and Counter Offers: How to anticipate problems and avoid burning your bridges

Starting a New Job: Preparing to start and getting settled in

Referrals/Recommend a Friend: Help your friends into a new job

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For practical advice on any aspect of job seeking, why not send us your Good CV with a Covering Letter and we can discuss the construction companies we can arrange you job interviews with.  Alternatively give the Maxim Recruitment office nearest to you a call to discuss your experience and our capability to assist you. 

 

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Old Oak seeks £12bn private sector partner

Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) has started the search for a private sector partner for a £12bn, two decade, joint venture to oversee and manage the delivery of the HS2-linked regeneration project.

Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 29 May, 07:37

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Oregon Timber Frame expands capacity

Barratt Redrow-owned Oregon Timber Frame has completed the final phase of a factory expansion, part of a £25m investment programme, increasing capacity to 5,000 home kits per year.

Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 29 May, 07:28

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GBR-Price to expand with Barclays support

Rail infrastructure specialist GBR-Price Group has secured funding from Barclays to purchase new premises and support the growth of its operations.

Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 29 May, 07:17

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Rolls-Royce has appointed Škoda JS and Doosan Enerbility to produce key nuclear island components for its Small Modular Reactor programme.

Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 29 May, 07:02

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Heidelberg, Kenson, deliver low carbon Redbridge road

Heidelberg Materials UK has worked with Kenson Highways to deliver a lower carbon residential road in the London Borough of Redbridge, using its evoZero cement.

Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 29 May, 06:50

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