Tips for promoting isurv in your workplace

Finding your way around

Take a tour through isurv using the interactive demo. You could demonstrate it to your colleagues in an information meeting or away day.

Using isurv for APC

isurv is great for APC candidates! The APC channel provides a practical guide to the APC training period and final assessment.

isurv gives candidates the correct focus and direction at the beginning of their training period. It explains the basic philosophies behind the APC (in particular, the competencies) and steers them through the training period as well as the final assessment interview.

This channel also explains the mandatory and core competencies of an APC candidate.

Why should candidates use isurv?

Looking at data from 2008, it's clear that using resources from isurv improves the overall pass rate. Those with access achieved nearly 75% pass rate while with those who didn't have access to isurv it was less than 60%.

2008 - all firms

isurv customer	total sat	Passed	Referred	Pass rate (%)
No	620	370	249	59.68%
Yes	590	440	147	74.58%

Using isurv for associates

Recommend isurv to those studying for the Associate level of membership. The Associate channel will give them helpful material and focused direction.

It has all the RICS official material for Associates and access to the candidate's guide. The Associate pathways are cross referenced to all other material on isurv to ensure candidates have a much better all round the subject knowledge.

Using isurv for CPD

Everyone will benefit from using isurv for CPD. You can broaden your skill base and build CPD hours with the new lifelong learning area on isurv. Earning CPD hours demonstrates that you have sought to maintain your professional competence and improves your skill set, benefiting you and your clients.

Each isurv section is structured so it can be read from beginning to end, making isurv an ideal tool for structured reading, for background reading for a discussion group, or to help you run an internal training event.

Once you have picked the topic you are most interested in learning about from the section listing on the channel's homepage, you will note the structured list of contents for the section at the bottom of the centre column. The right-hand column contains lists of any related official material or forms that you might also find useful.

isurv CPD contains:

• all official RICS CPD information in one place, including RICS Rules of Conduct;
• structured learning modules starting with Expert Witness, with more to follow; and
• interactive tools such as down loadable certificates of completion that allow you easily document what modules have been undertaken.

Research on isurv

Use isurv to find technical, legal or procedural information that will support you in your daily work, particularly when dealing with areas you don't normally tackle.