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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New CFO for Mace Consult

Newly independent Mace Consult, which separated from Mace Construct and became an independent business in March, has appointed a new CFO, Shaun Hughes.

Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 4 November, 08:48

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Lawton Tubes, which has manufactured copper tubes and fittings for more than a century, has launched a range of stainless steel products for the first time, including systems targeting corrosive environments.

Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 4 November, 08:38

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PBSA-developer UPP, the University of Exeter, and Bouygues UK have celebrated the topping out of the first two Willmore Iles Architects and Architype-designed Passivhaus buildings at the new West Park development on the University’s Streatham Campus.

Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 4 November, 08:29

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Punch to plan new bridge for Newbridge

COWI's consultancy business Punch has been appointed to progress the design and tender of a major road and bridge in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, on behalf of Evara Developments.

Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 4 November, 08:19

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Thurston invests in manufacturing

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Source: The Construction Index Last updated: 4 November, 08:11

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