Construction Citizen attended a lecture this week about Ethical Dilemmas in Construction Industry Labor Practices at Texas A&M University along with over 275 students and...
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.
Is the Economy impacting your training and development budget? In a recent survey conducted by Metri-Mark, Inc., 55% of training managers responded that due to the recent...
This letter is from the first newsletter that we received going into the new year and it is important. It describes one company’s workforce development program that meets...
If we are in the bottom of the recession river, it is much wider than most folks thought it might be. The recovery is taking longer that the economists thought and the...
Our company has recently begun assessing our workforce using the NCCER’s (National Center for Construction Education and Research) National Craft Assessment and Certification...
The US Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) have announced the release of a new Commercial...
No arguing that it’s tough to be looking for a job right now. If you are unemployed and 16 to 24 years of age, you are one of 18.6 million of your peers looking for work in your...
Are you wondering what is involved in becoming LEED certified? You may be interested in a free one-hour webinar tomorrow hosted by RedVector, a company from Tampa which...
An article written by Nick Zieminski for Reuters on August 26, “Lack of skilled workers threatens recovery” captured my attention. The article highlighted a research paper...
