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Career Development

The construction industry stands alone in its diversity of occupations, crafts and breadth of opportunities for learning and leadership. Career development choices include crafts training, apprenticeships, advanced equipment operations, supervising, information technologies, project management, engineering and general management. Good educational systems should build awareness and prepare students of all ages for selecting among the many options for getting started.

An important aspect of Chamberlin’s quality initiative is Chamberlin University. Chamberlin ‘U’ was conceived and developed in 2006 and implemented as part of our strategy to...
Read for some ABC Greater Houston members' perspectives on owning a business or working for a woman-owned business in the construction industry.
"Every day, hundreds of people ask me if it's too late to learn a skill, or master a trade, or change the road they're on. My answer is always the same. No - it's never too late...
The Houston area has regained a significant amount of the jobs it lost since last March, but recovery has been uneven between economic sectors and full recovery may not be...
There are few things that can impact the industry like a well-trained workforce. However, figuring out how to get training started can be daunting. According to Jerrad Lee of...
Revised versions of NCCER’s Core: Introduction to Basic Construction Skills, Concrete Construction Levels 1 - 2, Electronic Systems Technician Levels 3 - 4 and Roofing Levels 1 -...
Construction Citizen’s Elizabeth McPherson joined MAREK’s Laura Contreras on a jobsite last year to discuss her success through a NCCER training course at Community Family Centers...
NCCER makes finding accredited construction training and assessment programs easy with their recently released Find a Center, featuring two key search functions. By...
An important aspect of Chamberlin's quality initiative is Chamberlin University. Chamberlin 'U' was conceived and developed in 2006 and implemented as part of our strategy to...