Properly Preparing Your First-Year Employees for Success on the Jobsite
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To keep pace with demand, contractors may need to hire 500,000 more workers this year above their normal pace of hiring, according to Associ...
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Recruitment
Increasing Support for the Increasing Number of Women in Construction
By Shanthi Rajan
March 19, 2024
The construction industry has long been male-dominated, but the tide is turning as more women are making their mark in this traditionally ch...
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Barriers That Are Hurting Your Hiring and Recruitment Efforts
By Samantha Stephenson
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Over the past decade, the construction industry has expanded its workforce by tapping into new segments of workers to find much needed talen...
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Retention
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Building TeamBuilder
By Patrick Hennessy
February 14, 2024
In an industry where people are the primary assets of the organizations that perform the work, one of the toughest and most important challe...
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Retention
Human Resources
Generation Yes: Recruiting Today’s Construction Management Students
By David McMillin
February 14, 2024
Before Rebecca Barrows started her junior year of high school outside of Houston, she assumed that her next step would be a collegiate archi...
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Training
Careers
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The Case for Skills-Based Hiring
By Fraser Patterson
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The supposed takeover of human jobs by artificial intelligence and robotics was a hot topic in 2023. Once you dig past the hyperbole, howeve...
Retention
Human Resources
Recruitment
Training
Revamp Your Employee Training Program to Attract the 2024 Workforce
By Tony DiSilvestro
December 15, 2023
2023 has been the year of the labor shortage for the construction industry, caused and continued by a multitude of factors, including early ...
Recruitment
Retention
Making Workers' Compensation Work Better for Your Workforce
By Lisa M. Figueroa, M.D.
December 8, 2023
A construction site can be a hive of activity. It’s one reason why construction is one of the most dangerous industries. According to the 20...
Retention
Three Surprisingly Simple Employee Benefits to Combat the Ongoing Workforce Shortage
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The struggle to find construction labor is an ongoing—and growing—issue. As of July 2023, 4.4% of construction positions are currently unfil...
Recruitment
Human Resources
Retention
How to Accommodate for Neurodiversity on a Jobsite
By Lauren Gilliam
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In any industry, no two workers are the same. Each has unique skills and abilities. The way a worker’s brain functions impacts task performa...
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