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Housing’s Great Rethink: Workforce Development Takes Center Stage

Pro Builder

Lower-paying jobs in the retail, food service, and hospitality sectors also were roundly rejected or, in the aftermath of the pandemic, rarely reconsidered. Early analyses found this quitting phenomenon to be most prevalent in the high-pressure technology and health care sectors, and among workers aged 30 to 45.

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Commercial Construction Best Practices: How Not to be the Class Dunce

HardHatChat

I, for one, try to go to as many industry seminars as I can, whether they focus on retail construction, restaurant renovations , commercial real estate market conditions, etc. I soak it up like a sponge. But the thing I most dig about these events is the opportunity to connect with customers. Green Building Council.

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Top 30 LinkedIn Groups for Construction Business Development

Carol Hagen

We all need an education, to network with peers and with prospective clients. AGC Construction Leadership Council. Retail Industry Professionals Group. Be careful in joining too many groups or weighting them too heavily to your peers (I see this problem often), rather that to focus on your targeted prospects.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Maggie Farrell, Diversity & HR Manager at S. M. Wilson & Co.

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Our areas of expertise are education, retail, healthcare, and commercial projects. One of the things that I love about my job is being able to coordinate and assist our teams with implementing our SKILLED® program, which centers around construction career education. Right now, we’re really busy in the PreK-12 market.

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Construction Data Company blog: Lots of useful information

Construction Marketing Ideas

On the private side, look for office and retail construction to see significant increases and on the public side there should be a jump in educational and healthcare construction. Expect to see a big push for funding apprenticeship programs to entice more workers to the construction industry.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

AGC Publication #1205, September 1991. Educational researcher, 5(10), 3-8. Journal of Retailing, 76(4), 549. Assessment in Engineering Education: Evolution, Approaches and Future Collaborations. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 13-25. Education and Practice, 135(4), 129-141. E., & Sanders, S.