by FLCC Team | Jun 10, 2020 | Construction Industry, Hiring, Interviewing
On Friday, the nation received encouraging news that 2.5 million jobs were added to the economy last month, causing the unemployment rate to drop to 13.3% (source US Department of Labor). The construction unemployment rate fell to 12.7%. Although this is 9.5 points...
by FLCC Team | Mar 12, 2020 | Career Clarity
We socialized with friends who do not work in the Construction Industry, but instead for companies that employ hundreds of people servicing national and worldwide regions. They asked if our companies had released emergency plans for the Coronavirus. They also asked...
by FLCC Team | Jul 25, 2019 | Construction Industry, Hiring
Last week, my family and I attended the opening night of Lion King. It warmed our hearts to be reminded of the Lion King film, which was released as our children were growing up. The famous “circle of life” was manifest to us as we looked over at our children, now...
by FLCC Team | Jul 11, 2017 | Construction Industry, Workplace Behaviors
Back in 2014, I wrote an article for ASPE National’s newsletter titled: Estimators, You’re on the Top Occupations List! The prediction by the US Department of Labor is that 40,000 new estimating jobs would be created in the construction industry in the US by 2020. We...
by FLCC Team | Jul 10, 2017 | Career, Construction Industry
This article was published by Estimating Today on February 2014 Edition. To see full magazine, click here. In 2010, at the height of the recession, I was asked to do a presentation for ASPE (American Society of Professional Estimators) Chapter 49 titled, “The 2010...