The correct level depends on your level of experience. Level 3 is the entry level qualification for those who are just starting out in their career (facilities assistants, facilities coordinators) or planning to move into Facilities Management but without having any experience yet. The level 4 is best for lower to middle managers (e.g. assistant facilities managers or facilities managers), the level 5 for more senior middle managers (senior facilities manager, regional facilities manager) and the level 6 is for senior management (head of FM, facilities director).

It’s important to get the right level as the assignments will ask you to draw on your experience in order to answer the questions. So an ambitious (or deluded!) junior manager who wants to do the level 5 or 6 would struggle, regardless of their intelligence or previous level of academic achievement, because they wouldn’t have the experience to apply to the assessment questions.

The best starting point to determine the correct level is to try the One-Minute-Leveller tool.

It’s a short questionnaire which asks a few questions about your role and then determines the best level depending on the answers. We’ve found this around 95% accurate at predicting the correct level when the questions are answered honestly, however if you’re still not sure about the result we can arrange a chat with one of our tutors who can go into more depth and help you decide.