I would go to the Estimators - Let Me Teach!

And really, why not? The cost estimator in our time is a profession that is in high demand and highly paid (of course, with what to compare), and, importantly, limited by certain functional duties, in contrast to, for example, the mysterious-meaningful manager. More and more young people, not thinking about the same direction, are thinking about this sphere of professional activity, as a possible source of basic or additional earnings. It is them, these future estimates, who are persistently invited to announce the sets for training courses in the budget business, it is they who are expected to have individual classes with more experienced counterparts, or "fascinating" reading of the estimate-normative database of documents alone. It's not for us to judge which of these training methods is more efficient and optimal in terms of price / quality ratio, especially as the result usually depends more on the learner than on the teachers. On the contrary, in this review I would like to show as many possible variants of getting an education in the profession of an estimator in one form or another, without rejecting initially any of them, giving the reader the opportunity to decide on the optimality of each method independently.

So, the basics of the budget profession are often taught at specialized courses. How did it happen? Is it correct? Is it sufficient, but short course courses to acquire the necessary qualifications, so that the developed estimate meets all the requirements and standards? Without taking into account rhetorical questions, we will try, along with a description of the actual state of things, to understand the historical prerequisites of today's popularity of courses in the budget business. In those days when the foundations of the estimate and normative bases were being formed, in accordance with which the majority of construction and repair work is currently being done, in other words in the USSR, the estimates were mainly specialists with secondary special education, in contrast to, for example, engineers , The presence of higher education in which it was almost mandatory. The time has passed, now many higher education institutions produce marketers, financiers and other professionals of economic profile, who have recently appeared in the national education system. However, many universities and academies still do not produce estimates. Moreover, even in colleges, colleges and other specialized secondary schools, this specialty is infrequent. Yes, and those who want to get it in a technical school or college, where the learning process is stretched for several years, is not so much: after all, the certificate for passing the courses in the estimated case is issued one, two months at most. Of course, in vacancies for the work of the estimator, a rare employer will write "courses" in the column of the required education - on the contrary, estimators with a higher, often profile building education are welcome. However, the "ideal" candidates with the appropriate education and work experience for the joy of not having these merits applicants for all vacancies is not enough, so the possibility of settling for an estimate after the courses is quite real, especially in connection with the growing demand for the development of estimates, reasons and features Which, together with a description of the other most significant tendencies of the industry conjuncture, are given in the analytical review of the market for estimated services, developed on the basis of statistical data on Krasnodar Edge.

To date, the market for trainings and courses is saturated with a variety of proposals for training the estimated business from 300-hour sessions of groups of 20-30 listeners to individual classes with an experienced cost estimator, the number of which is determined by the student himself. The quality of the provided educational services also varies in a fairly wide range, depending on the training program, the qualification of the teacher, the percentage of practical classes in the course of the entire course, etc. It is desirable to choose the various training options based on the existing level of knowledge in this specialty. So, someone needs a few practical classes in the budget program to understand the basic algorithms of action and make estimates in the same software package in the future. Less detailed or more thoughtful will be useful to study in detail the extensive theoretical basis of the estimated pricing, which includes, in addition to the enormous number of existing norms and rates, a number of nuances and subtleties in their use, such as the use of corrective coefficients, the use of quotations from various estimate and regulatory bases, And, most importantly, a competent selection and justification of the prices included in the estimate. The study of these and many other questions is most likely to occur already within the framework of self-education, because the budgetary matter is this vast, accumulated for decades of knowledge, to know which, like a foreign language, can be, if not infinitely, then very, very long.