The QS CV template that gets you interviewed
We read hundreds of Quantity Surveyor CVs a year for main contractors across the North West. Most of them are wasted. This is the one we wish candidates used.
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Every QS CV says the same thing
Procurement. Valuations. CVRs. Final accounts. Change control. If your CV is a list of the things a QS does, you look identical to the other forty people who applied, because you all do the same job.
The CVs that get pulled out of the pile do one thing differently. They prove scale and outcome. Project values. Package values. Contract sum against final account. What the margin did while you were running it. How many people reported to you.
A Commercial Manager reading your CV is asking one question: can this person handle what I’ve got on site right now? Most QS CVs never answer it.
What you’re downloading
- A two-page Word template covering Assistant, Project and Senior QS level
- Every section pre-structured — profile, key strengths, career history, education, tickets
- A guidance line under each section telling you what to write and what to leave out
- Worked prompts for the achievements section, which is where most QS CVs fall over
- A page of instructions covering tailoring, gaps, short stints and the mistakes we see weekly
- Clean single-column layout that gets through CV filtering software intact
Built for a QS, not borrowed from somewhere else
This isn’t a generic CV template with “Quantity Surveyor” typed at the top. It’s structured around JCT and NEC work, subcontract packages, CVR reporting and final accounts, because that’s what you do and that’s what the person hiring you cares about.
It works whether you’re an Assistant QS with two years and one scheme behind you, or a Senior QS with fifteen years and a portfolio. The structure scales.
Why we made it
ProBuild places Quantity Surveyors with contractors across the North West. We’re a small specialist outfit, not a volume agency, and we spend our week on the phone to Commercial Managers and Commercial Directors.
We built this because a good QS losing out to a worse one on the strength of a badly written CV helps nobody — not you, not our clients, not us.
Go and get the template
Free, twenty minutes to fill in, and it will do more for your next application than another hour on the job boards.
