By George F. Will, Cleveland Plain Dealer
In the 1940s, Steve Shelton's grandfather dressed up — white shirt, tie, fedora — to take the streetcar to the steel mill where he would change into work clothes, and would shower before dressing up to return home. ''There was,'' Shelton says, ''such dignity in the trades back then.''
By Tory Summey, HR Insights
Today, social media platforms, including Facebook and LinkedIn, allow employers to target their job listings based on various characteristics of the users they wish to reach. As a result, employers can theoretically identify better candidates while expending fewer resources. However, these ad platforms have drawn the ire of certain plaintiffs’ law firms and, more recently, the EEOC.
By Charlie Kimmel, Construction Executive
There is a lot of discussion about the technical skills required in the construction industry. Construction firms put a premium on candidates with degrees in engineering or construction management, and it’s increasingly important for construction workers to be comfortable with various types of software and other technology as the industry evolves.
By Rachel Burris, Construction Business Owner
There are several steps that the industry can take to transform the U.S. workforce, and the first of these is to establish and strengthen career awareness and education opportunities. The construction industry rallying behind a public-awareness campaign has the potential to change parents’ opinions and correct misconceptions.
From Forbes.com Contributor, William Craig
Making it through the day becomes the goal of most employees, along with bringing home a paycheck. Both employees and employers suffer when employee goals fail to evolve beyond those two factors.
By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report
At a steel factory dwarfed by the adjacent Auto Club Speedway, Fernando Esparza is working toward his next promotion.
The “Beige Book” is a compilation of informal soundings of business conditions in each of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts, which are referenced by the name of their headquarters cities. The latest Beige Book , issued Dec. 5, is based on information collected from mid-October through late November and included these comments relevant to construction:
