Employers Use CST
Benefits FOR and Uses BY FIRMS
- Sets a standard for your technical staff
- Can be used as a hiring requirement
- Can be used as qualification points for hiring decision making
- Can be incorporated in your QA/QC Program
- Can be used as a career ladder which creates a promotional tool within your firm or agency (career development).
- Can be used in conjunction with training
- Raises the bar and creates healthy competition
- Creates a better qualified staff – more production – more valuable employees– you can pay your staff more – you can attract better staff – your job becomes easier
- Better qualified staff – less mistakes – reputation improves – more business
- Can be used as a contract requirement for professional service providers/consultants.
- Can be used as a contract requirement for construction contracts.
- Can be used as a pre qualification requirement in A/E procurement (Brook’s Act).
- Can be used as a contract requirement for professional survey services contracts.
- Improves confidence in services procured.
BENEFITS FOR TECHNICIANS
- Recognition by Peers and Employers
- Personal Pride — Achieving Certification
- Pay — CST’s make about 10% more
- Career and Employment opportunities improve — “CST Preferred” and “CST Required”
- Prepares you for other professional Exams
- CST Program compliments training
- Skills will improve – making advancement possible
- Certification improves image of survey technicians within the agency
Companies who have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NSPS
- Central Florida Chapter of Florida Surveying and Mapping Society
- Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc
- Maser Consulting
- McKim and Creed
- Westwood Professional Services, Inc.
Companies using the program in 2023
- Allen & Company
- Allstate Mapping & Layout LLC
- Ballentine Associates
- CEI
- CESI
- Charles P. Johnson Associates Inc
- City of Orlando
- Coleman & Associates
- Colliers Engineering
- Diamondback
- E & A Consulting Group
- EHRA
- England-Thims & Miller, Inc
- Halff Associates
- HKS
- Hugo Reed & Associates
- International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15D
- Jones Carte
- Lamp Rynearson
- LJA
- McKim & Creed
- MidAtlantic Engineering
- Moore Bass Consulting
- MSA Consulting Inc
- Pape Dawson
- Rick Engineering
- Rochester & Associates
- SJB Group
- SSMC
- Stewart Geomatics
- T.Baker Smith
- Topographic
- Westwood
- Widseth
- Wightman
- Windrose
- WMATA
- WTC Inc
- Yazel Peebles
- Zahner & Associates