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Secondary Students
Are you in high school thinking about graduation? Will you be
seeking employment, looking for technical training, attending
community college or headed for a 4-year college or university? What is your
unique talent? Want an industry that is financially rewarding, gives
you the option of working inside or outside, allows you to join a big
corporation or become your own boss? It’s time you explored the
numerous career opportunities in residential constriction. There is
something for everyone! Take a journey through our Web site and
discover how you can Make It Happen with a career in residential
construction.
Make it Happen Home Page
Home
Builders Institute’s careers campaign initiative can help YOU –
Make It Happen – with a career in residential construction. The
careers initiative provides a much needed gateway for Home Builder
Associations, NAHB members, educators, students, parents and other
interested parties to access the construction industry.
About Construction Industry
The
construction of 1,000 single-family homes generates 2,448 jobs in
construction and construction-related industries; approximately $79.4
million in wages; and more than $42.5 million in federal, state and
local tax revenues and fees. Residential construction offers multiple
options for every career path – workforce, apprenticeship, technical
school, community college and 4-year college/university – make the
choice that’s right for you
- Stay Current with the Industry
-
Nation’s Building News Online,
is a comprehensive weekly news summary of the industry. It includes
national regulatory, technological, trends, education, business
tips, legislative news and more.
- Make It Happen with HBI - Home
Builders Institute, the workforce development arm of the National
Association of Home Builders, is dedicated to the advancement and
enrichment of education and training programs serving the needs of
the housing industry. For more than 40 years, HBI has trained
skilled workers in residential construction, promoted the industry
as a career and helped the NAHB membership address its need for
qualified employees.
- Student Chapters - The NAHB Student Chapters Program
provides students in building-related fields such as construction
management, engineering, architecture, real estate and the trades an
opportunity to learn more about residential building through
membership in the industry’s largest trade association.
- Career Clusters
 - The
Architecture & Construction Career Cluster includes the following
industries – architecture, commercial, industrial and residential
construction. The Career Cluster initiative provides an organizing
tool for schools, small learning communities, academies and magnet
schools.
- Job Corps - HBI
has trained Job Corps students in the construction trades for
careers in the building industry since 1974. Job Corps students
receive hands-on training from professionals in the industry, for
professionals in the industry.
- Craft Skills -
Pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship training in residential
construction are offered through HBI’s Craft Skills programs. Craft
programs are public/private partnerships.
- Building Today's Workforce for
Tomorrow - HBI and its partners will create a
systemic approach to construction industry workforce development
that provides a continuum of recruitment, career exploration,
education, and training.
- Career Services
- the
residential construction industry. We help students and their
influencers access information on the housing industry’s host of
careers attainable through post-secondary institutions or by joining
the workforce directly after graduation.
- HBA
Programs-At-A-Glance
Local Home Builder Associations (HBAs) throughout the country have
developed industry/education partnership programs that are
educationally enriched, challenging and creative. Programs provide
middle and high school age students with information about the
industry and have an impact on career choices during these critical
career decision-making years. These educationally enriched,
challenging and creative HBA partnerships also include adult
training programs.
Construction Career Choices
Construction is one of the nation’s largest industries with 8.3
million workers. By the year 2012 there will be a need for an
additional 1.1 million special trades contractors this does not
include the management, supervisory and other professional
positions. The majority of builders are small companies, however
there are large corporations that operate in as many as 90 markets
in 26 or more states and some have as many as 11,000 employees.
- Make Construction
Your Career Choice - Residential Construction – an exciting
industry that is also financially rewarding, it’s a great place
to work! Explore career paths that will assist in a successful
transition to future employment and/or further education. Have
you thought about what it means to be an entrepreneur? There
are numerous opportunities in the industry that can be matched
to your unique talents, skills, interests and personality to
create the utmost in career satisfaction.
- Career Flowchart
- There are more than
100 career opportunities in the industry. This includes options
for those pursuing skilled trades, technical and professional
positions. How do you want to pursue your career path in
construction? Check out the options.
- Levels of Entry - Do you
know the stairway to your future? Education IS Important!
Choose the construction entry level that is right for you!
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Construction Career Options - Residential Construction – an
exciting industry that is also financially rewarding, it’s a
great place to work! Explore career paths that will assist in a
successful transition to future employment and/or further
education. Have you thought about what it means to be an
entrepreneur? There are numerous opportunities in the industry
that can be matched to your unique talents, skills, interests
and personality to create the utmost in career satisfaction.
- Career
Options - Choose an
occupation, build a career. What’s right for you? Get tips
about the job, the education requirements and pay.
- Exciting Challenges
in the Industry -
So you want to be a smart house technician or maybe your
thinking about land acquisition/development. Each stage of home
building has related occupations and career areas that you
probably never connected to construction. Check them out!
- Industry Careers –
Getting Started
There is something for everyone! Take a journey through the
sampling of entry/level-one opportunities and discover how you
can find success with a career in residential construction.
Education and Training
A major focus of HBI is to create programs to maximize the
number of youth who are exposed to and knowledgeable about all
aspects of the residential construction industry. What better
place for the industry to find qualified, dedicated, career
driven next generation skilled trades, entrepreneurial
individuals and industry professionals than in the schools?
Industry/Education Partnerships!
- Lesson Plan Course
Ideas and Workbook - Virtually every subject in
the high school setting can be put in the context of the
home building process. The activities and exercises in the
lesson plans were developed by educators and are provided as
idea starters and examples of ways you can introduce home
building topics. The course includes a hands-on building
project. Best of all, it’s not “extra work.” The format is
easily adaptable to fit your current curriculum. A workbook
is included to assist with planning.
- Developing
Industry/Educational Partnerships - Use the Planning
Guide and Workbook to establish a uniquely designed program
that enables students to gain career awareness and academic
enrichment. The design differs from many other
career/education programs because it is based on forming
partnerships between schools and professionals from the
industry. Have fantastic ideas? Put them in writing! Use the
Planning Guide and Workbook to establish a uniquely designed
program that enables students to gain career awareness and
academic enrichment.
- Sample
Partnership Programs - These sample programs promote and
support partnerships that bring together schools, parents,
businesses, and other members of the community to increase
student learning and stimulate interest in the residential
construction industry and related fields.
- Getting on
Board with Career Clusters - Home Builders Institute is
the Cluster Leader for the Architecture & Construction
Career Cluster. The Architecture & Construction Career
Cluster provides an organizing tool for schools, small
learning communities, academies and magnet schools.
Residential Construction
Curriculum - Based on national standards set by
the residential construction industry, the Residential
Construction Academy Series is the result of a partnership
between Home Builders Institute and Thomson Delmar Learning.
This series is the perfect way to guide learners to
development of essential workplace skills, in the areas of
carpentry, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and facilities
maintenance. The goal is a skilled, knowledgeable workforce
able to meet the needs of the industry today and into the
future.
Superintendent Training
- What builder, contractor or remodeler hasn’t wished for
personnel with the requisite skills to be savvy, on-the-spot
field superintendents?
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Residential Construction Superintendent Designation -
The Residential Construction Superintendent series of
courses are geared toward budding field superintendents and
can benefit current site personnel wishing to excel in this
position. Eight courses cover issues and subjects identified
by NAHB members as critical to a field or site supervisory
job. Upon successful completion of all eight courses – each
four hours in length – a Residential Construction
Superintendent designation is awarded.
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Concrete Specialization Courses - The Concrete
Specialization Courses are modeled after HBI’s Residential
Construction Superintendent (RCS) designation, which is
similarly geared toward budding field superintendents and
can benefit current site personnel wishing to excel in this
position. The Concrete Specialization Courses are designed
to educate superintendents on the core fundamentals of
concrete construction.
Fun Stuff - Fun
stuff! Fun Facts! Just having fun! Just for fun! Fun for
all! The fun place! Lots of names for having fun. There’s
something for all ages. And, it’s educational.
Building/Construction
Trades – York Technical College Sample Curriculum for
Certificate Programs
York Tech’s Industrial and Engineering Technologies
Division’s mission is to provide accessible, relevant, high
quality education in a wide range of industrial and
technical specialties required by local and regional
industries. The Division offers a variety of degree,
diploma, and certificate programs designed around employers’
expectations.
Job Search Tools
- Construction is one of the nation’s largest industries
with 8.3 million workers. By the year 2012 there will be a
need for an additional 1.1 million special trades
contractors this does not include the management,
supervisory and other professional positions.
Recruitment Tool
– NAHB joins forces with ConstructionJobs.com - In
collaboration with ConstructionJobs.com, NAHB offers this
recruitment tool to all NAHB members in their search for new
employees. NAHB members enjoy a 20% discount off of standard
rates for job posting.
- Preview the Site –
Express Job Search – Post Your Resume – Post Job Openings – Career
Center get resourceful information for the job seeker in preparing
for that perfect job
- Rate Sheet – Are you
an employer interested in posting jobs and reviewing resumes? Click
here to see the Rate Sheet for NAHB Career Center/ConstructionJobs.com.
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