Alistair Elliott, Proprietary Partner, Head of Commercial Division
The Knight Frank Commercial business has always placed enormous store in its graduate
training programme. The intention is twofold: firstly, to build the graduates experience
in surveying and secondly, to feed the Knight Frank business with a pipeline of
the very best talent.
Knight Frank's graduate programme has always been highly acclaimed. The aim is to
provide all our graduates with a thorough training programme, focused upon securing
a positive APC result with the parallel objective of finding how individual skills
can be best aligned with the business requirements.
Anyone joining Knight Frank has the benefit of the enormous brand value the business
holds. It has served a wide range of people exceptionally well, including myself.
Whilst I now have the responsibility of running the Commercial business, I joined
in 1983 from what was then Birmingham Polytechnic.
After qualifying, I then spent many enjoyable years in the National Offices leasing
team, before getting more involved in the management of the business, developing
the Hotels, Offices, Healthcare and Industrial service lines. I then took over the
reigns of the Commercial business in 2005.
There is a great deal of depth and breadth at Knight Frank, which I am certain will
provide any enthusiastic graduate with an excellent entry in to a career in surveying.