Workforce Development

Find a Skilled Trade Partner to Support Your Specialty Workforce

In the highly competitive commercial construction industry, having a skilled and well-trained workforce is paramount to winning bids, forecasting staffing, and ensuring company sustainability. To meet the industry’s demands and overcome the shortage of qualified workers, contractors must forge partnerships with skilled trade partners such as community colleges, trade schools, professional trade associations, and organizations […]

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Implement an Upskilling Program to Retain Quality Craft Workers

According to the 23rd Annual Global CEO Survey published by the “Big Four” professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), “the Fourth Industrial Revolution has ushered in new business models and new ways of working that require critical new technical, digital, and soft skills. Those skills, however, are in very short supply.” The construction industry is not

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Where Are They? Finding a Skilled Construction Workforce in the Current Market

Finding skilled workers can be the hardest part of growing your business. The skilled workforce is dwindling as fewer young people enter the skilled trades and more people age out into retirement. We want that magic bullet to tell us where to find skilled workers ready for job deployment, but seeking an instant solution to

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Pipeline Paving with Partners

​Hello Friend, A few years back Diane Aguilar, Chuck Gremillion and I started working with Debra Haney, Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocesan Schools in Galveston-Houston. She had a great big dream to convert a currently closed elementary school into a career and technical high school that gave students the opportunity to pursue career readiness

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