BYC Construction Career Outreach Goes Virtual: Is Your Company Ready? Despite the COVID-19 health crisis preventing the majority of hands-on career exploration activities in schools last year, it is now more important than ever for the construction industry to ramp up virtual boots on the ground outreach efforts to effectively and safely provide students with comprehensive construction career awareness opportunities. The …
Build Your Career is pleased to recognize Clancy & Theys Construction Company as our February 2021 “BYC Spotlight Series” featured member. Clancy & Theys has been a longstanding Carolinas AGC member since 1949. Since it was founded, the company has been deeply involved in community-based outreach projects and promoting construction career awareness throughout the Southeast. From being actively involved with …
BYC Trains Over 100 Ambassadors How to Conduct Virtual Construction Outreach at Recent Summits Build Your Career recently hosted our last of two virtual Ambassador Summit meetings for 2020. Almost 100 BYC Ambassadors representing 42 Carolinas AGC member companies and over a dozen industry partners attended these online meetings to learn how they can continue safely and virtually promoting construction …
Wanted: CAGC Member SME Contributors to GroundBreak Carolinas Newsletter GroundBreak Carolinas, a Build Your Career and CAGC industry resource partner, has kicked off a new series of short Guest Commentaries for its bi-weekly e-newsletter. They are inviting our members from across the Carolinas construction community to respond to a question related to Workforce Development and those answers will then be featured …
NAWIC Celebrates Women in Construction Week! The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) is gearing up to celebrate Women in Construction Week, March 7th through March 13th, 2021. The focus of WIC Week is to highlight women as visible and viable components of the construction industry. WIC Week also provides an occasion for NAWIC’s thousands of members across the …
CAGC Members Pledge Nearly $123,000 at Convention to Support New BYC 50/50 Program! At the recent Carolinas AGC Annual Convention in Aruba, our attending members enjoyed hot, sun-filled Caribbean days, cold island drinks, delicious local Aruban cuisine and a jam-packed, yet very entertaining, agenda. We had much to celebrate in this tropical paradise—the 100th anniversary of CAGC, our prestigious 2019 …
January 27, 2020: Build Your Career recently held an end-of-year holiday fundraiser raffle online where our members and supporters had the opportunity to purchase tickets to enter a raffle drawing for a chance to win a fabulous customizable Biltmore experience valued at $1,550. Up for grabs in the BYC holiday fundraiser raffle as the prize was a $1,250 gift card …
BYC Dec ’19 Contractors in the Classroom Profile: A Year in Review The Build Your Career “Contractors in the Classroom” program is designed to place our BYC Ambassadors directly in schools throughout the Carolinas region. The goal of this program is to educate students, their parents and teachers on the many amazing benefits of pursuing a career in the construction …
BYC Nov ’19 Contractors in the Classroom Profile: Trident Construction Build Your Career recently had the opportunity to participate in a Contractors in the Classroom presentation, partnering with CAGC member and active BYC Ambassadors, Trident Construction, to lead a construction career awareness workshop for a dozen students at Fort Dorchester High School in North Charleston, SC. Topics discussed included general …
Are There Better Ways to Attract New Talent to Your Construction Firm? Even though the construction industry continues to make improvements in technology, offers great compensation and benefits packages, creates opportunities for upward mobility and boasts bountiful jobs available for both genders, why aren’t more young people entering the industry? One primary reason is that construction careers simply have not …
