Transferable Skills Offer more than a Straight Line to a Job

Hello Friend, It is such a pleasure to be part of this organization and I really look forward to our golf tournament each year as the main place I get to see many of you. So as you can imagine when we first open up our golf registration, I am watching closely to see who […]

​Hello Friend, In 1948, James Johnson and his wife Bonnie sold the family farm in rural Alabama to make a better life for their four children. They moved the family north to Indianapolis and restarted building a life. James had a 3rd-grade education but was a hard worker and was good with his hands. Bonnie

​Hello Friend, What is better than friends, golf, sunshine, and supporting C3? Not much that I can think of! We are back at it with our 12th Annual Golf Classic. Blackhorse will be hosting us again with a total of 72 available foursomes. We will shotgun start at noon on October 25th so make sure

Hello Friend, So many things have happened in the last two weeks for Construction Career Collaborative (C3), that I just can’t wait to share it all with you. First, we held an incredibly successful #SHEbuildsHouston event. Thanks to our underwriters Turner Construction, TDI, and Satterfield & Pontikes. And a huge thank you to Action Gypsum

​Hello Friend, It is March 2nd and we are feverishly preparing for the 2nd #SHEbuildsHouston event. We didn’t ever plan to host this event, it grew organically. We never planned to host the second one outside in order to combat a pandemic or during Women’s History Month. But we are. Great things just seem to

Hello Friend, You may be surprised at how often I hear “I didn’t realize how small the C3 staff is”. I take this as a huge compliment, especially because about 50 percent of our staff has joined us within the last year. But here we are. A team of just eight highly motivated individuals. Getting

​Greetings! After the first day on the job, does a new apprentice or newly hired experienced craft professional instantly become a company asset who no longer needs additional coaching or mentorship? Has the employee graduated from the need for performance evaluation to ensure the employee is assimilating, reaching full competency or proficiency, and actualizing the

​Greetings! It’s January of 2022 already and while I had held on to hopes that COVID would be behind us and we could all return to travel, face-to-face meetings, and handshakes that isn’t where we are today. But truth be told, COVID really hasn’t slowed down the progress of Construction Career Collaborative (C3) in the

​Greetings! With the new year sitting right on the horizon, I’m certain many of us will begin to reflect on what we have accomplished in 2021 and what 2022 might hold for us both personally and professionally. December does this to me every year and 2021 has held some pretty great things for us at

Greetings! Can you believe it has only been a four short years that I have worked with C3 on the mission of strengthening the safe, skilled, and sustainable craft workforce in Houston? And yet we have grown exponentially through that four years, adding experts to our consulting staff and taking on new and exciting adventures