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Education is Key to Recruit, Develop the New Construction Workforce

Efforts to improve access and quality of construction education are helping lead the push to recruit, develop and reload the construction laborer pipeline

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ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Nutcache Timelogger

Nutcache is a time tracking mobile app that tracks and automatically records time spent on projects and business tasks

The time tracking mobile app uses a timer to record minutes worked on a project and then syncs with a user’s active Nutcache account in the cloud.

Tennessee to Vote on Local Hire Amendment

Amendment would require 40% of work hours on Metro construction projects costing $100,000 or more be completed by Davidson County residents

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NY Construction Company Guilty of Wage Theft

Stonehenge Restoration stole nearly $80,000 from its workers between January 2014 and March 2015

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Is On-demand Training The Next Big Thing for the Construction Industry?

On-demand training may not be a new concept, but resources like Construct-Ed are now letting industry experts submit their training materials for access by the entire industry

On-demand training opportunities allow construction industry employees the ability to take training courses whenever they want as long as they have a device with Internet capability.

Construction Employment Set to Outpace Manufacturing Employment

Building trade jobs are up 4.2% while factory jobs are up only 1.3%

While the bulk of new U.S. jobs are created in the service sector, the goods side of the economy on average creates better paying jobs.

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How to Get More Employees Involved

Report: Workers on NYC Public Projects Make Up to 177% More Compared to Private Industry

Construction labors on public projects make up to 119% more than those working on private projects

Construction workers on public projects are earning sometimes significantly more than their counterparts working in the private industry.

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Looking to Hire – Consider YouthBuild Program Graduates

YouthBuild programs target many of the under-represented groups in the construction industry which provides an 'untapped reservoir of talent'

YouthBuild Boston student working with Century Dry Wall foreman laying out bottom track of wall framing for Suffolk Construction’s management offices in the Millennium Tower.

Number of Unfilled Construction Jobs Remains High

National Association of Home Builders

The open rate for construction jobs has been trending upward since 2012 with April average the highest since 2007

On a three-month moving average basis, the open position rate for the construction sector rose to 2.5% in April, the construction sector hiring rate declined to 5% and the number of job quits held declined to 105,000, the lowest level since the start of the year.

Construction Unemployment Rate Second Lowest Since November 2007

Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. (ABC)

US construction industry adds 17,000 jobs in May 2015 bringing unemployment rate down to 6.7%

Nonresidential construction employment increased by 8,200 jobs in May, with nonresidential specialty trade contractors adding 5,600 jobs and nonresidential building employment expanding by 2,600 jobs. Residential construction employment added 8,500 net new jobs for the month.

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3 Problems with Using Incentives to Motivate Construction Employees

The Contractor's Business Coach

Bribing employees with money to motivate specific behaviors can be a dangerous path for construction contractors

Perhaps the biggest problem with using money to motivate desired behavior is that it leads to employees paying a lot of attention to a specific task or goal and does so to the harm of other duties and objectives.

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