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:
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.
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
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.
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.
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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New York State
Construction Career Days
Construction Career Days
| For more information on the program contact your local representative on the NY locations page. |
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| CLICK HERE Watch a video on the Construction Industry Staffing Crisis from the AGC of America |