The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) recently began accepting responses for its Global Job Task Analysis (GJTA) survey. IFMA is encouraging facility management professionals from around the world to participate by Feb. 9, 2016.

The purpose of the survey is to identify the knowledge, skills and abilities that are involved with the facility management profession due to the changing industry. According to IFMA, FM professionals are now being asked and empowered to do more for their organizations than they have in the past, causing many to turn to local, national and global associations to provide the right knowledge, training and resources required to do the job.

IFMA’s previous GJTA yielded benefits for the industry, including the establishment of 11 key competency areas for FM professionals around the world: communication, emergency preparedness and business continuity, environmental stewardship and sustainability, finance and business, human factors, leadership and strategy, operations and maintenance, project management, quality, real estate and property management and technology. As a result, IFMA now offers credentials, webinars and event programs based on these key skills.

The survey can be found at www.ifma.org/gjta.