Pros
- Met lifelong friends from the non managerial level - Learnt the type of company culture and managers to avoid in my future career - teaches you to be resilient and somewhat tolerable when tasked with unreasonable deadlines and workload, constant change of direction, and being blamed for things that aren’t your fault
Cons
- if you are not at a manager level, be prepared to not know that your opinion and input will be disregarded. You won’t know what’s going on with projects until last minute or at all - heavily controlled by the UK. They assume whatever works in the Uk will work for other regions. So the potential for change even for small changes root to many layers of challenges - people in managerial roles seem like they haven’t managed people before and show for it. They assume because they are ‘at the top’ they are not accountable for what they’re responsible for and point fingers to their subordinates or whoevers convenient instead - noone communicates with eachother - lack of direction - too focussed on numbers - toxic environment and no workplace culture - everyones got so much workload to do, while expected to excel and perform with flying colours. In return everyones stressed out doing work not only for their core role but to fill in for other non-filled roles aswell because RICS wants to save money. RICS Provides products and services to people and if standards and excellence is soo important to them why don’t they do what’s necessary to positively encourage their employees internally. You’ll exist in an environment that doesn’t set you up for success - no career progression. No learning opportunities Whoever is reading this, don’t join RICS. Your efforts will be better used elsewhere.
