by Vicky Bello | Apr 24, 2025 | Construction Industry, Workplace Behaviors
Recently, when training a new employee the basics about the commercial construction industry, explaining to them why it makes a difference where and what a construction manager was responsible for building over their career the employee was asking all the right...
by FLCC Team | Apr 8, 2025 | Career Development, Construction Industry
March 20, 2025, marked the first day of spring this year from an astronomical perspective; from a meteorological perspective, spring is defined as March 1–May 31 each year. This day is defined as when the vernal equinox, which occurs when the earth’s axis is not...
by FLCC Team | Mar 19, 2025 | Career Development, Construction Industry
Wow, the first quarter of 2025 is coming to an end, and LinkedIn currently lists 26,000 construction-related job openings across Florida. I often talk about wishing we had a cloning machine to duplicate the hundreds of construction management professionals we’ve...
by FLCC Team | Mar 5, 2025 | Construction Industry, Workplace Behaviors
I will never forget the day in the 2002 when Dan Shaw, then president and CEO of our local chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, took me to lunch to recruit me to help launch a Women’s Council for the chapter. My initial thought was, Am I really the right...
by FLCC Team | Feb 12, 2025 | Construction Industry, Workplace Behaviors
Last month, my team and I led an interactive presentation highlighting the magnificence of the construction industry and exploring the many career opportunities, directly and indirectly, that students can consider as they further pursue their professional paths. Each...
by FLCC Team | Jan 29, 2025 | Construction Industry, Workplace Behaviors
As of the most recent data, the construction industry in the United States employs approximately 7.5 million people, including trade and non-trade workers. When focusing on non-trade employees specifically within general contractors and construction management firms,...
