Surveyors – Join our community

Passionate about Surveying? Share it.

There are many ways you can help youth get excited about surveying. You can give a presentation at your local school, host a work experience student, or even just talk to people about surveying wherever possible.

It cannot be emphasised enough how big an impact a surveyor can have when discussing the profession with young people. Surveyor Karen Thompson found this out herself when she and some of her fellow Landteam colleagues visited Illawarra Sports High School.

Hi Karen,

Just a quick note to convey our very sincere gratitude to you and some of the Landteam team for your willingness to be involved with our schools ‘Conversations With Industry’ careers event. We are incredibly grateful to you all for your kindness and generosity in supporting this activity.

Our school placed a lot of importance into this event because we understand how helpful it can be in assisting our young people to become more confident and knowledgeable about their future careers choices. Our students are no doubt much richer for the experience, and your support will no doubt assist them as they move towards entering the world of work. We thank you all for your participation and the knowledge and hints that you imparted to our students.

Many of the students have seen me since the talks commenting about how useful they thought the event was, and how beneficial it was to have the opportunity to talk with the guests on the small group basis. It was clear that they understood the value of gaining an insight into various careers before they formally enter into various training pathways and, or the labour market. I know they value the very real contribution that you all have made to their lives.

Thanks again for your support and interest in our students.

Simon King
Careers Advisor
Illawarra Sports High School

Karen’s not the only surveyor pitching in. Ian Iredale has been running New South Wales’ Maths in Surveying Days since 2007 – in this 2019 video, filmed at the Women In Surveying Day lunch, Ian talks about the impact surveying events can have on students.

 

Want to join Karen and Ian? Simply register your details below, and tell us what type of support you can offer.

Work Experience Resources

Work Experience is a powerful method for young people to discover first-hand whether surveying is the right career path for them. To assist you with hosting a secondary school student, feel free to download and edit these resources to suit your organisation as needed.

Sample Activities

Employer Resources – NSW

Employer Resources – Vic

Employer Resources – Qld

Employer Resources – WA

Working With Children’s Check

Before becoming an industry ambassador, it will be helpful for you to first achieve your Working With Children’s Check. It is necessary to have this document when you are volunteering in a school or educational scenario.

Below you can find links alongside instructions pertaining to each state’s application process. In most states it is free and will only take you a few minutes to fill out your web form; you may then have to provide some proof of identity at a later date. The sooner you fill your form out, the sooner you will be able to just in as an industry ambassador.

Working With Children Check – NSW

Working With Children Check – Vic

Working With Children Check – Qld

Working With Children Check – WA

Ambassador Training Kit

Download your Ambassador Kit to assist you with presentations and career expos. Feel free to download and edit these resources to suit your organisation as needed.

Don’t forget to also check out the nationally-focused nine minute surveying video and the three minute Surveying – A Life Without Limits brand story video, below.

Ambassador Resources – NSW

Ambassador Resources – Vic

Ambassador Resources – Qld

Ambassador Resources – WA

Employing an apprentice or trainee

For more information about employing an apprenticeship or trainee see the following website.

Or contact:
Sarah Hibbert, Account Manager, Australian Business
1300 363 831
Sarah.Hibbert@australianbusiness.com.au

Promoting your profession

We’re also encouraging surveying professionals to back the Surveying – A Life Without Limits brand on social media platforms.

By establishing an Instagram account and posting images of interesting aspects of surveying life, you can help promote the surveying lifestyle and career path to people currently outside of this community. To convey the power and promise of a surveying career, we find that some of the best things surveyors and surveying firms could post include:

• Exciting surveying projects
• Pictures of surveyors on the job
• Surveying technology especially emerging tools and technology
• Job opportunities at your firm
• Day in the life of work experience students, graduate surveyors and more
• Important events such as the registration of a newly licensed surveyor

The following hashtags are useful tools when posting on social media sites, particularly Instagram. These are associated with the Surveying, A Life Without Limits brand:

• #trysurveying
• #alifewithoutlimits
• #suitstoboots
• #surveyingcareers
• #landsurveying

• #cadastralsurveying
• #studyingsurveying
• #geographycareers
• #mathscareers
• #mathematicscareers

You can also place a hyperlink to the A Life Without Limits website on your firm’s website. This will be actively pushing the website up the Google search rankings results, maximising the chance of students, career advisors and students reaching integral study pathway information. You can use the following image in concert with hyperlink https://www.alifewithoutlimits.com.au – click on the button below the image to download it.