The building industry has struggled with building trades recruitment and retention issues for more than a decade. The aging construction workforce, lack of skilled trades instruction in schools and stiff competition for workers have all contributed to the issue.
IN A TIME OF CRITICAL SHORTAGES, DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE VALUE OF EXISTING EMPLOYEES OR THE POWER OF PROGRAMS THAT ENCOURAGE NEW RECRUITS TO GO THE DISTANCE
Matt DiBara was born into the masonry industry. His family has been doing masonry and construction for four generations—102 years—and it all started when his great grandparents came to the states from Italy.
BLD Marketing, a results-based, full-service strategic marketing agency serving building materials manufacturers exclusively throughout North America and abroad, has forged a partnership with 84 Lumber to help the company meet its escalating recruitment and hiring needs across the country.
In that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is projecting that by the year 2020 a staggering 74 percent of all new labor force growth will be Hispanic, it’s important to know the best places to recruit them.
