Graduation season is starting alongside summer project work. High school seniors and recent college graduates from two- and four-year degree-granting institutions are looking for jobs and transportation may be a good fit.
EDC7's Workforce Development initiative provides Innovative strategies to identify, train, place, and retain workers in highway construction jobs that support the Nation's highway system.
The demand for highway construction, maintenance, and operations workers is growing while industry is experiencing a revolution of emerging technologies that will require new skills. To attract and retain workers in the contractors' workforce, new resources are available to help State, local, and tribal communities compete with other industries and demonstrate the value of a career in transportation. Increasing the highway construction workforce can help communities thrive while solving one of today's most persistent national transportation problems and offers an opportunity to recruit underrepresented groups, including minorities and women, to jobs that can change their lives.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/edc7wfd