Help Wanted: Highlighting grassroots construction recruitment efforts | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC
The construction industry faces a stark shortage of labor. The challenge of recruiting workers to the industry has only increased in an era where young people see college increasingly advertised as the best or only option for building their careers.
But across the country, employers, nonprofits, labor groups and individuals are developing new methods to find workers — largely from underrepresented fields — and place them on jobsites. In Help Wanted, a monthly series, Construction Dive highlights those grassroots efforts to fill hard hats across the country.
Read on about the people that are working to make a change in the industry, one initiative at a time.
Do you know of a group that is helping attract workers to the construction industry? Let us know.
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Colorado nonprofit supports high school shop classes starved by budget cuts, pandemic
By Zachary Phillips • June 30, 2022Shop teachers have been forced to “beg, borrow and dumpster dive” for resources, so one educator created an organization to stock classes and rebuild the trades' talent pipeline. Read the full article ➔
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How wishing wells and dog houses showcase carpentry skills
By Zachary Phillips • July 14, 2022In Construction Dive’s latest Help Wanted column, apprentice competitors from a carpenters trade group share their career goals. Read the full article ➔
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Oregon program helps place formerly incarcerated people in apprenticeships
By Zachary Phillips • Aug. 25, 2022In Construction Dive’s latest Help Wanted column, we speak to graduates and leaders from a Portland pre-apprenticeship program. Read the full article ➔
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Messer initiative places urban workers in subcontractor jobs
By Zachary Phillips • Sept. 22, 2022The Cincinnati-based contractor's Urban Workforce Development Initiative draws local, under-represented workers into the building industry. Read the full article ➔
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