A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF CANDIDATE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTRUCTION

Abstract

Improvement of hard and soft skills, job security and other employment considerations are influenced by the education and training of a candidate professional who is keen to register with a built environment statutory council in South Africa. Methodology: The study, which is reported upon in this paper qualitatively assessed how candidate built environment professionals perceive their work in relation to their quest for professional registration. The phenomenological study underpinning this paper used faceto- face interviews to interrogate the issues among purposively selected professionals who are working towards professional registration with statutory councils affiliated with the Council for the Built Environment (CBE) in South Africa. Results: The study shows that the majority of the interviewees agree that employers need to promote training programmes that would assists candidate professional in South Africa. The main reason for this assertion is centred on the need for candidate professionals align their training with the requirements of registration councils. Value: Candidate professions that participate in employer assisted training programmes would be more secured about future employment prospects in the industry.