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The Construction Office Imperative: Digitize, Go Paperless and Mobile

Carol Hagen

If your construction accounting system doesn’t have at minimum a drag n drop feature for documents and emails, it’s time to look for an integrated, comprehensive replacement solution. The Phoenix Construction Peer Exchange on February 24th. First let’s address AP invoices and email as everyone has them.

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Federal Construction Contractors and the OFCCP Audit

Carol Hagen

Records retention is paramount in avoiding violations and construction firms must prepare and educate more than just their Human Resources and Payroll departments. Computer based project management systems, estimating software and accounting solutions each may have a subset of the overall records you will need to produce in an OFCCP audit.

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We Analyzed 600+ Construction Job Listings for Gender Bias: What We Found Surprised Us

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We also looked at listings across various large metro areas and cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Washington DC, Miami, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Phoenix, London, Dublin, Sydney, and Auckland. . Unconscious bias education, hiring best-practices and cultural agility” are of chief importance.

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Email Management and E-Forms in the Contracting Office?

Carol Hagen

I just presented a seminar to the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) Valley of the Sun Chapter in Phoenix today. One large General Contractor here in Phoenix is using the Prostor Systems Infinivault as backup & archives for large swaths of data including their document imaging and email systems.

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Construction Industry Slow to Adopt Twitter

Carol Hagen

There are some contracting firms getting their feet wet, and using a twitter account like Leobuild that posts press releases and some news in hopes of driving traffic to the Leopardo website. You need to keep your business purpose in mind and understand the use of hashtags when using this web 2.0 Twitter is just one of the web 2.0

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Can Web 2.0 and Social Networks Find You Employment?

Carol Hagen

Last night I spoke at the NAWIC Greater Phoenix Chapter 98 on “Web 2.0, LinkedIn & Social Networking: How to Get Noticed & Hired off the Net” This is an educational opportunity that I will offer via webinars in the near future. It was apparent that this struck a chord with the audience.

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Construction Jobsite Safety: Strategies and Resources for Worker Well-Being

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billion in workforce education. More than half of that spending (56%) went toward safety education, a sign that construction remains a potentially dangerous job. But what about holding subcontractors accountable for safety on your jobsites? In fact, more than one-fifth of the 4,764 workplace fatalities in the U.S.

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