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Hiring a Quantity Surveyor in the UK is hard going right now. You write the advert, wait a fortnight, and a handful of CVs trickle in, most of them already in the final stages somewhere else. It can feel like the talent just isn’t out there. It is. It’s just not all sitting within driving distance of your office. The home-grown pool is genuinely tight, and that won’t change overnight. RICS has been flagging it for years: an ageing workforce that isn’t being replaced fast enough, too few new entrants coming through training, and a slice of European talent that stopped showing up after Brexit. QS and Estimator roles sit near the top of the hardest-to-fill lists, and CITB reckons the wider industry needs hundreds of thousands more people just to keep pace. So if it feels like everyone is chasing the same few candidates, they are. The good news is that this is one role where you don’t have to.