Every year, Pôle emploi conducts a survey on "workforce needs" among 2 million French establishments. However, the 2021 edition revealed that the surveyor sector was the third profession to have the most difficulty recruiting, just ahead of home help and doctors.

That year, the sector had 10,000 jobs, including 1,866 surveyors, while the profession estimated that 3,000 positions would have to be filled by the end of 2023 in surveyors' firms. In the longer term, the entire industry is mobilizing to attract the younger generation.

Building tomorrow

Indispensable for all work projects, surveying firms are essential to build the future and represent a sector of the future. Their missions: to develop living spaces adapted to everyone, to help design individual or collective projects or to participate in the development of territories to obtain a sustainable living environment.

Combining a human and technological dimension, this multifaceted branch offers several specialties and is looking for candidates with various profiles.

A variety of missions

Spread throughout the country, the firms of surveyors-experts recruit at all levels of qualification, from professional baccalaureate to bac +5, and offer a multitude of professions, missions and specialties.

Among them, let us mention the drone pilot, the operator in charge of data acquisition, the GIS technician, the engineer, the urban planner, the lawyer or the works manager, the landscaper or the computer scientist.

A profession that adapts to the times

If recruitment is difficult, the profession of surveyor-expert nevertheless offers certain flexibility, which allowed him to survive the health crisis. The possibility of choosing one's working environment, whether urban, rural or coastal, of privileging the office to the field, and of organizing one's working time according to emergencies are great advantages.

In addition, the profession has been able to adapt to our times, taking into account the challenges of sustainable development and giving a greater place to digital, as well as digital tools and innovations.

No more field surveys carried out by hand, experts can now be required to fly a drone or model a future construction with a 3D scanner!

How to train?

Several training courses make it possible to integrate a firm of surveyor-expert. Future candidates can first opt for a professional baccalaureate Topographic Surveyor Technician, accessible from the 3rd and achievable in three years.

There is, in addition, a BTS Professions of topographic surveyor and numerical modeling, accessible after the baccalaureate and lasting 2 years.

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Finally, for those who want to evolve towards a position with more responsibilities, engineering training, bac +5 level, also exists. They are generally followed on a work-study basis (with a professionalization or apprenticeship contract), in order to integrate more easily and quickly into the world of work and business.

Focus: The 2030 surveyor-expert plan

To deal with this employment crisis, the Order of Expert Surveyors launched, in January 2020, the "surveyor-expert 2030" plan. Its goal is to attract the younger generation to this sector, by supporting these changes in the profession and by rethinking training courses.

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