Land and Planning Graduate, Development at Crest Nicholson

The following is a Graduate Review for Crest Nicholson.

Crest Nicholson scores 4.1/5 based on 46 reviews.

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What are the Best and Worst things about your job?

Best

- Fast paced industry with a range of tasks.
- Fantastic support on offer from both the board and company in obtaining my RICS.
- Rotational graduate scheme giving you the chance to experience all the different divisions in the housebuilding process.
- Invaluable graduate workshops in different aspects of housebuilding. For example, Design, Presentation Skills, Planning Process etc.

Worst

- Results driven business so it is stressful at times as well as being required to work long hours.

What is the annual salary for this role?

Starting salary: £25,000 - £27,000

Current salary: £25,000 - £27,000

What hours do you actually work, on average?

Start: 08:40

Finish: 17:50

What advice would you give to someone applying to this role?

- Know the company.
- Have an understanding of the industry.
- Have relative knowledge of recent happenings in the news that may affect the business.
- Be prepared to talk about your strengths and weaknesses.
- Have a good understanding of the work you've been doing at university and how this is relevant.

Do you have any interview tips?

- Take pieces of university work into the interview with you, and be prepared to discuss it.
- Know the company.
- Know the roles of the job you are hoping to go in to.
- Be yourself. The interviewers are not trying to catch you out. They want to get to know you and how you would fit in within their current team.