A Sustainable Workforce Starts With You

Awareness and Recruiting

Are schools, organizations and media portraying the richness, variety and vitality of construction careers? Recruiting and renewing a sustainable work force means embracing a positive image for our industry, reinforcing it with our education and industry partners and fulfilling its promise through socially responsible industry practices.

Construction companies can easily run into problems when they hire the wrong people.  Not only is it a money problem, but it also affects productivity and safety. ...
The Construction Citizen team has written many times about the growing controversy over whether college is becoming obsolete and actually a liability for many in America. ...
Staff and supporters of SER - Jobs for Progress gathered at the Houstonian this past Sunday night to celebrate the organization's 48th anniversary.  Dignitaries including...
A research report that was published last month by the Foundation of the Wall and Ceiling Industry (FWCI) has industry leaders talking about their workforce development programs....
School starts again in a month or so across the nation and thousands of middle school and high school students will be asked to think about “what they want to be when they grow up...
Last week celebrity Mike Rowe appeared on the television newsmagazine Inside Edition to promote his newest initiative: Profoundly Disconnected.  Mike Rowe is known as the...