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Quantity Surveying graduate James Nodder will share his success story at our Queen St campus in Auckland's CBD on Thursday 8 September. Bring your lunch to Room 700 at 12 pm to hear about his rewarding career move to become a quantity surveyor.
James completed our NZ Diploma in Construction (Quantity Surveying), Level 6, in May. He says the skills he learned have proved extremely valuable in his new career. “I can now hand on heart say that I’m being paid on a daily basis to do almost exactly what I studied,” he says. “I’ve used some of my assessments as templates for my work. My boss has been very happy with it so what you guys taught me is transferable.”
He turned to Future Skills Academy at the age of 27 after a long career in business development in the financial services and real estate sectors. "It was my time spent both working for and alongside development teams such as the DuVal Group and Wills Bond & Co that drove my decision to change my career and become a part of un-ironically "Building Auckland." Studying at the academy was "my ticket to that dream."
James met the architects for property developer Willis Bond Ltd during a party celebrating the completion of their new buildings at Wynyard Quarter. “I instantly recognised that their entire existence was ten times more rewarding than mine. Whereas my life was trying to befriend people so they’d buy something off me, they were designing then constructing a building, and playing adult Lego, which was really rewarding.”
James says he was drawn to Future Skills Academy by the short holiday breaks which allowed him to finish within only two years. “The biggest takeaway is within two and a half years, I’ve been able to completely change industry role, have a qualification, an outlook, possibilities. I can’t say how much I’m happy to say that Future Skills will likely be the catalyst for something that will be a complete change in my life and circumstances. I’m looking forward to some time in my career being able to say,’ I built x and y airport; I built x and y skyscaper.’”
