The Power of 'Why': Optimizing New Employee Onboarding
By Anne Lackey
December 4, 2024
Managing a new employee can be a challenge. A newcomer doesn’t know your company’s environment, routines, or do’s and don’ts. They’re hungry for validation, and you’re likely too busy to offer much. You have work to do, and getting another person up to speed adds more weight to y...
Construction Can Look to Gen Z and Technology to Sustain Talent Pipeline
By Kit Dickinson
November 5, 2024
With a documented labor shortage in construction and an abundance of construction projects, construction business leaders in need of growing their workforce have an opportunity to tap into Gen Z to help build and sustain their talent pipelines over the long term.
Research publis...
Casting Call: Recruiting the Next Class of Construction Leaders
By David McMillin
November 4, 2024
Construction firms have been struggling to attract enough trade professionals to keep projects on schedule, but there’s another mountain ahead that may be even harder to climb: finding new leaders who are comfortable standing at the top of the figurative ladder. When consulting a...
Diversifying Your Construction Company's Trade Skills to Meet Growing Demand
By Anne Lackey
October 22, 2024
An experienced tradesperson who steps onto a property to address one problem will probably spot three more issues the owner should address, so there's always entrepreneurial value in learning multiple skills.
Consider the landscaper who can offer lighting services to enhance the...
Record Rebound in Construction Job Openings in August
By ABC
October 10, 2024
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—The construction industry had 370,000 job openings on the last day of August, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. JOLTS defines a job opening as a...
Construction Employment Increased by 25,000 in September
By ABC
October 7, 2024
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—The construction industry added 25,000 jobs on net in September, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On a year-over-year basis, industry employment is up by 238,000 jobs, an...
Construction Students Jam Out With Ty Pennington at National Skilled-Trades Competition
By Grace Calengor
September 19, 2024
"We’ve got to turn this into a T.V. show.” That is what John Montgomery, co-executive director of the Skilled Careers Coalition, said when he attended SkillsUSA, a national skilled-trades competition for teens, in 2021. But well before television, the first federal law in the Uni...
Turn Up the Tech: Recruiting the Next Generation of Skilled Workers
By Dustin Stephens
September 18, 2024
The construction industry has suffered from a skilled-labor shortage for years—and with baby boomers retiring at a faster rate than early-career workers are entering the industry, the problem isn’t going away anytime soon. To bridge this gap and attract a more diverse, modern wor...
Nonresidential Construction Employment Increased by 28,300 in August
By ABC
September 11, 2024
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—The construction industry added 34,000 jobs on net in August, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On a year-over-year basis, industry employment grew by 228,000 jobs, an in...
Construction Job Openings Plunge By 51,000 in July
By ABC
September 9, 2024
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—The construction industry had 248,000 job openings on the last day of July, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. JOLTS defines a job opening as an...
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