Maximizing Your Success Rate: Expert Insights on QBCC and NSW Builder and Trade Licensing

Discover how to prepare for a successful QBCC or NSW builder and trade licensing application. Learn why our expertise boosts your application's success rate, ensuring clarity, and up-to-date guidance.

Here at Construction Licensing, we are proud of our high success rate, and when we are talking to tradies and builders who are looking at how to get a QBCC builder licence or NSW Fair Trading builder licence, it quite often comes up in our conversations.

What exactly does it mean though to have a high success rate?  It certainly doesn’t mean that every person that walks through our door gets handed a golden ticket; so, let’s delve a little deeper into this statistic to understand why it’s so important to both of us.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR YOU?

Clarity and Understanding

As a potential applicant looking for your builder licence or trade contractor licence, you start down the process and quickly realise that there is a minefield of requirements and sometimes information overload that is before you.  It can be confusing and overwhelming.  Sending in builder licence application or trade contractor licence application it can feel like you are taking a stab in the dark as to what requirements are related to you, meaning you are leaving your application to chance.

When we go through the process with an applicant, we go through the details with you step by step, with knowledge of what requirements are needed.  We clearly explain the bottom line providing you with a solid understanding of your potential success.  If there are gaps in certification or experience, we can provide our recommendations and point you in the right direction as to the most efficient and effective way to fill those gaps, getting you on the right path to success.

In other words, we won’t waste your time and money on a licence application unless we are confident you meet the requirements; and if we do not believe that you have a high probability of success, we will explain to you what you need to get there.

To the minute experience

Builder and trade contractor licensing policies and requirements are ever changing and constantly updated.  Just when you may think that you have all your paperwork lined up and ready to go, the goal posts change and even more information is required.

You may even be provided with conflicting information about training and qualifications, experience, and acceptable referees.  All these requirements will differ depending on the level of builder licence or trade contractor licence that you are seeking and which State you reside or contract for building work.

With nearly 30 years of “feet on the ground” experience in the building and construction industry, we have seen the goal posts move many times.  As a result, we are ready for those changes as and when they happen with a full understanding of the implications for applicants.

Time & Money

Applying for a builder licence or trade contractor licence takes time and money, and getting it wrong, costs an awful lot more.  Our strong success rate gives you the best odds at getting your application completed correctly, without increased delays. We can liaise directly with the QBCC or NSW Fair Trading throughout the process leaving you free to get on with your job and running your business.

Much like your bookkeeper, insurance broker or IT specialist, we get on with the process of getting your application.  We work with you in partnership to provide you with the best return possible.

WHAT DOES SUCCESS RATE MEAN TO CONSTRUCTION LICENSING?

Track Record

Our number one priority is to ensure licensing quality and standards are maintained.  The Construction Licensing team draws upon nearly 30 years working tirelessly for the industry, learning from, and working with builders, trades, and government agencies alike. We understand and appreciate what is important to each stakeholder. 

We are committed to meeting the high standards expected by the building and construction industry and determined by Government.  Similarly, we understand the level of documentation and evidence required to build a strong builder licence or trade contractor licence application.

We undertake the appropriate level of due diligence with you to prepare a strong and compliant licence application.  The benefit is two-fold as we also only want to be associated with a licence application with an exemplary standard to the licensing authorities.

A Stronger Industry

This one is important to all of us.  A stronger industry means increased consumer confidence in getting the job done and to standard.  Consumer confidence affects you as a tradesperson and a builder but also, our industry suppliers of tools and materials business partnerships and networks. It’s important to Construction Licensing to see our industry in Australia prosper and continue to grow with confidence.

Our success rate results in helping our future licensed builders and tradies create and grow strong, sustainable businesses in Australia.  With higher than ever skills shortages, we can’t see a better way to contribute to building a stronger future for our industry with the skills and expertise that we have.

If you are on this path and need some help, please, talk to us at Construction Licensing and we’ll get the process started.

Enquire now and get the ball rolling!