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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.

Career and Technical Education (CTE) is what we might have formerly called vocational education. It prepares students on the verge of entering a career field to gain skills and...
An important aspect of Chamberlin Roofing and Waterproofing's quality initiative is Chamberlin University. Chamberlin ‘U’ was conceived and developed in 2006. It was essentially...
 The following announcement and update about Chattanooga's new Construction Career Center was provided by Leslie Gower, CEO of AGC East Tennessee, on LinkedIn.Leslie was also...
Careers in Construction Month (CICM) is a nationwide campaign held each October to increase public awareness of construction careers, inspire the next generation of craft...
Recently, Construction Career Collaborative (C3) and AGC Houston hosted a commercial construction workforce development conference and networking event. Construction executives,...
Construction leaders Cassie Clancy, Leslie Gower, and Kelly Gregory talk with Construction Citizen's Jeff Stautner about the vast career opportunities in construction and about...
The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), through its Build Your Future (BYF) initiative, is excited to announce the national expansion of its career...
In my dream world where we can track and measure everything relevant to the success of our workforce, there would be a lengthy list of additional metrics to capture. But in...
 Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Houston is pleased to announce that its educational affiliate, Construction and Maintenance Education Foundation, has been...