Careers

Welcome to the FM World careers section. Here you can find useful and interesting articles about careers in facilities managment

Home WorkingDo you want to work from home? With home workers up to 30 per cent more productive than their office counterparts your boss may be more receptive to the idea than you think. 14 January 2010
Compiling your CVYou have seconds to persuade a potential employer to interview you, and your stand-out CV may be the only way to catch their eye. So what should it contain? 28 August 2008
Your covering letterTime invested in CV writing is never wasted but that commitment could come to nothing if you dont get the covering letter right - they come as a pair 28 August 2008
Managing demanding clientsUnderstanding needs and remembering to communicate means that there need not be too much time wasted when a demanding client is testing your capabilities 28 August 2008
Performance managementPerformance management has many benefits but some still see the process as time-consuming, exasperating, paper intensive and a little too fluffy around the edges 28 August 2008
Quality managementRegardless of the profession you are in, without order there is chaos and as a result productivity is affected and inefficiencies are rife. Avoid all of that, embrace quality 28 August 2008
Change managerOur world is changing at a faster pace and this is proving to a big challenge both in our business and personal lives. How do we really make the best of these inevitable changes? 28 August 2008
DelegationManagement is about getting things done through others. Delegation is an essential skill that a manager needs to learn and make us of. But many dont do it, or do it badly 28 August 2008
AppraisalsEvaluating individual performance is a necessary task for managers but many dislike conducting appraisals. And staff can often view the exercise as demotivating 21 August 2008
Office PoliticsAll organisations, being made up of people, are political institutions. And all leaders have to deal with the resultant politics - its just that some are better at it than others 20 August 2008
Effective supervisionEffective supervision skills can sometimes feel alien for those new to management, but mastering them is essential if you are to become a manager rather than a doer 20 August 2008
Motivate your staffFacilities management is a service-based industry where people are all important. In order to keep our customers satisfied we need to motivate our own teams 20 August 2008
Interim managementTimes are changing and interim managers are being seen as more than just the crisis averting stop gap. In fact, it's a role that's a role that's shaping up as a career option in its own right. 19 August 2008
National Occupational StandardsWith national guidelines to define FM roles being drafted, and more legislation on its way, the FM industry needs to get involved now if it is to shape its own future 19 August 2008
Communication SkillsCommunication is the most important and most powerful of all management skills, That is doubly true for FMs who need to be expert listeners, speakers and writers 19 August 2008

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