Quantity Surveyor → Cost Consultant

This is a easy transition with a typical 10-month runway and 72% skill overlap. Expect a +23% salary change, with strongest hiring demand in USA, UK, Canada. Employers hiring today include Turner & Townsend, Arcadis. Focus your first 60 days on closing the gap in role-specific tooling and vocabulary.

1. 1Audit your Quantity Surveyor experience for transferable skills that map to Cost Consultant.
2. 2Close the top skill gap: role-specific tooling.
3. 3Build 2–3 portfolio artifacts that demonstrate Cost Consultant outcomes.
4. 4Reshape your resume and LinkedIn around Cost Consultant keywords and outcomes, not job titles.
5. 5Run a targeted outreach loop to Cost Consultant hiring managers at Turner & Townsend, Arcadis.

• ▸Why are you moving from Quantity Surveyor to Cost Consultant?
• ▸Walk me through a Quantity Surveyor project where you applied skills relevant to Cost Consultant.
• ▸Which parts of a Cost Consultant role are new to you, and how are you closing that gap?
• ▸Where do you see yourself as a Cost Consultant in 3 years?
• ▸Tell me about a stakeholder disagreement and how you resolved it.

• ▸Lead with a positioning line: "Quantity Surveyor transitioning to Cost Consultant, focused on Project Management and Financial Modeling."
• ▸Reframe Quantity Surveyor accomplishments using Cost Consultant vocabulary — outcomes, not tasks.
• ▸Surface 72% of overlapping skills at the top; put Quantity Surveyor-only work later.
• ▸Add a "Selected projects" section featuring 2 artifacts aligned to Cost Consultant.
• ▸Quantify impact: dollars, users, uptime, cycle time — whatever a Cost Consultant manager cares about.