A Sustainable Workforce Starts With You

Awareness and Recruiting

Are schools, organizations and media portraying the richness, variety and vitality of construction careers? Recruiting and renewing a sustainable work force means embracing a positive image for our industry, reinforcing it with our education and industry partners and fulfilling its promise through socially responsible industry practices.

Some 468 area women packed into the North Ballroom of Galveston’s Hotel Galvez on Friday, Feb. 19, eager to learn about careers in the petrochemical and industrial trades...
The second ever Lift & Move USA event which was held last month in Houston connected over 650 high school and college students with industry representatives from the crane,...
The following article originally appeared in the February newsletter to clients of Kiley Advisors, LLC.  Reprinted with permission.The increasing realization that talented...
Women account for 19 percent of the total employment in the combined oil and gas, and petrochemical industries, according to a report from the American Petroleum Institute....
Success.What do you define as success? Is it getting that title of management? That promotion that makes you feel like you have reached the top of the mountain? Or is it making...
The event will target high school and college students and military veterans to promote job opportunities in crane, rigging, and specialized transport industries.
The event gave 400 high-school students a chance to hear from 43 contractors and owners who volunteered their time and equipment that day, and to get a taste of various...
First Lady Michelle Obama appears in a new public service announcement aimed at promoting higher education to the youth of America. In the video, Mrs. Obama and Saturday Night...
One of the perhaps ironic challenges discovered by Construction Citizen during the publication’s recent visit to Lee College is that because jobs in the petrochemical industry can...