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Marketing Strategies to Improve Recruitment Efforts

Work in construction offers the classic American story: someone can start on the ground floor and work their way into a highly technical profession. The challenge is connecting job seekers to those opportunities. How can companies go about building a talent pipeline?

How Suicide Prevention Is a Workforce Development Strategy

Through quality management training to help put these measures into practice, and developing strong teams and peer support networks, the construction industry can change the statistics on suicide risk and workforce shortages.

Implications for the Construction Labor Market When the Cycle Turns

In the last decade, the industry witnessed unprecedented levels of building, so much that the labor supply has been unable to keep up with demand. While it’s impossible to know when the cycle will turn, this dynamic won’t last forever.

Five Reasons to Hire Older Workers—and How to Keep Them

To make up for the gap in available talent, construction executives must look to project managers and superintendents in the 58-to-64 age range. Fortunately, there are numerous benefits to hiring older workers.

Hiring Tools that Go Beyond the Resume

The temptation may exist to hire quickly, especially when up against a tight deadline to complete a project. Taking a strategic pause to streamline the hiring process, integrating technology when appropriate, will help any organization confidently engage in the war for great talent.

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Hiring Tools that Go Beyond the Resume

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