Construction Career Days is an event devised to introduce 11th & 12th grade high school
students to the vast career opportunities and unlimited potential for advancement within
the construction industries.

Supervised by professionals, students will participate in:

  •  hands-on activities like bricklaying, welding, painting and carpentry
  •  operation of a backhoe
  •  operation of mini-excavators and skid steers

Exhibitors will display the newest technologically advanced equipment that is utilized in
constructing highways and buildings.  Also, the latest “high tech” tools used to build
today’s modern structures will be exhibited.  Skilled trades people demonstrate crafts
such as brick laying, cement finishing, welding, plumbing, electrical installation, material
testing and pipe laying.  Colleges and employers also make themselves available to discuss
the process of career and educational advancement.
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Construction Today
The construction industry faces its most profound workforce
crisis of the 21st century. Nationally, there are 240,000
unfilled positions at every level in the construction and
transportation industries today. Employers are looking for
more and better trained service technicians,
certified mechanics, equipment operators, skilled crafts
people, superintendents, civil engineers, architects,
construction managers, surveyors, welders, and more.

Today a “ditch digger” is a very complex machine.
Its operator may earn in the neighborhood of
$40,000-$50,000 per year.  The computers on board have
more power and technology than those on the landing module that took Neil
Armstrong and his NASA crew to the moon in 1969.  Its repair manual is written
on a college reading level.
Other industries can’t match the opportunities to be found in construction.  
There are fewer barriers between you and that first job.  Once hired, there is
potential for rapid advancement, since older skilled workers are retiring faster
than young workers are being trained in skilled crafts.  There is no other
profession in the world that has a higher percentage of workers that are able to
start their own businesses.

The construction industry is booming.  Without talent, the highways, utilities,
hospitals, schools, office complexes, and homes for our growing population may
never be built.
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Watch a video on the
Construction Industry
Staffing Crisis from the
AGC of America