Surveyors are professionals engaged in surveying and need to have relevant technical knowledge and skills. The training of surveyors can include the training of job responsibilities and workflow, so that they can have skilled operation skills and work ability, which belongs to the category of job training. In addition, surveyors also need to know the professional knowledge of measuring principle, instrument use and data processing to ensure accuracy and reliability, which belongs to professional technical training. Therefore, surveyor training can belong to both on-the-job training and professional technical training.

The training of surveyors includes not only the job responsibility training to adapt them to the specific job requirements, but also the professional knowledge and technical training to improve their professional ability in the field of surveying.