In another of our candidate support instalments of The RICS Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by RICS member, assessor and mentor, Jen Lemen FRICS. 

Offering a perspective from the other side of the interview table, Jen shares advice on how to prepare for the big day, and some best practice hints and tips to get you through the interview. 

This episode of The RICS Podcast covers:

• How candidates can best use their preparation time
• Balancing revision with relaxing to overcome stress
• Methods for handling questions that candidates can’t answer
• How to beat nerves on the day, and how assessors approach visibly nervous candidates
• Common myths and misconceptions about the final assessment interview

Jen Lemen is a co-founder of Property Elite, Chartered Surveyor and RICS APC assessor. She is the author of 'How to Become a Chartered Surveyor', published by Routledge.

She is also an experienced property consultant (co-Director of Projekt) with FRICS status, a RICS Registered Valuer and a RICS Accredited Mediator, with nearly 15 years' experience working in the commercial property sector.  

Her RICS assessment experience includes sitting on final APC interview panels, APC appeal panels and being a lead APC preliminary review assessor.

If you would like to find out more about the range of local and global resources available to help you through your assessment journey please visit our dedicated candidate support pages on the RICS website.

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:

https://www.rics.org/uk/

RICS Podcast Page

https://www.rics.org/podcast/

Kieran Halliwell

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdhalliwell/