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In campaign to end the skilled worker shortage, Mike Rowe unafraid of...
Photo illustration of Mike Rowe with TV personalities Bill Maher (left) and Glenn Beck (right). Credit: The Real Mike Rowe Facebook page As part of his Profoundly Disconnected campaign to make students...
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3 culture-changing steps contractors can take to combat the skilled worker...
There’s been no shortage of attention lately to the skilled worker shortage. Although industry advocates like Mike Rowe have been beating the drum for a while, now everyone is catching on—analyzing...
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1: Have the “Right” People
Attracting and retaining people isn’t enough. You have to hire and keep people who are a good fit for the type of company you want to have. No matter how skilled the employees, sometimes their demeanor...
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2: Be Open and Honest
Mitch Cox (left) discusses a sitework with Raymond McBride, president of Mitch Cox Construction and Scotty Lane, senior superintendent. Although it’s your company, you should want your employees to be...
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3: Be Fair
Treating everyone fairly and treating everyone equally isn’t the same thing. If you treat everyone exactly the same, they’ll think you don’t care about them. Have an individualized approach to your...
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Survey says more than half of construction companies affected by skilled...
At this point, it would be quicker to list the number of cities that haven’t reported construction projects being impacted by the skilled worker shortage than the ones that have. In the past year alone...
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Maryland shadow program works to draw high school students to construction...
Students in the Fredrick County (Maryland) Career and Technology Center carpentry program observe a garage craning on the site of the program’s annual project house. Through the end of this month a...
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VIDEO: Mike Rowe opens up about opera, skilled trades and Dirty Jobs (EXCLUSIVE)
All of the new machines are obviously the star of a show like ConExpo. But one of the highlights for the Equipment World team last week at the show was getting to sit down with TV host and...
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VIDEO: Mike Rowe’s “I am a Woodshop” supports protesting students whose...
Recently, TV star and former host of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe gave some national attention to a story that likely wouldn’t have made it out of the small Illinois town it originated in. The school district...
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Wages for construction and other skilled trades are on the rise
Wages for skilled tradesmen in the construction and mining as well as those in logging and manufacturing are on the rise, according to a new report from the Economist. Citing data from the Bureau of...
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