Rosendin has launched a hiring campaign in central Texas, hoping to recruit 700 craft trade workers to construct the region’s digital and energy infrastructure.
“Nimble” is frequently used to describe how AEC human resources leaders responded to the cascade of challenges in the past year. On top of supporting field crews to help keep jobsites safe and productive amid Covid-19 outbreaks, HR teams scrambled to craft strategies for maintaining connections across a suddenly dispersed office workforce, sustain recruiting efforts with only limited access to prospective candidates and conduct sometimes difficult discussions of social justice issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Chicago developers, contractors, unions, the United Way and even Rahm Emanuel's last campaign manager are coming together to bring women, african-americans, latinos and other minorities into the building trades.