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Check out the latest edition of Wayne Brothers' newsletter, the Leading Edge, for all Project, HR, and Company updates!
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Check out the latest edition of Wayne Brothers' newsletter, the Leading Edge, for all Project, HR, and Company updates!
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KANNAPOLIS — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College has forged a partnership with Wayne Brothers construction company to assist in training and educating local residents.
Through the N.C. Back-To-Work initiative, students will be able to acquire the necessary skills required to obtain employment in the heavy commercial construction industry.
Wayne Brothers, a Kannapolis-based concrete construction and site development contractor, has not only returned to pre-recession staffing, but grown beyond it.
“I started to notice as soon as the economy showed signs of recovery there was a decline in the candidate pool,” said Milton Chicas, training & recruiting director for Wayne Brothers. “We were looking for individuals with character, skills and willingness to learn. That proved to be a big challenge for us.”
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College was recently awarded a $301,539 grant from the North Carolina Department of Commerce in support of the NC Back-to-Work initiative...
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The construction industry shed 2.2 million workers between January 2007 and last year.
So now there's an overabundance of them eager for jobs, right? Wrong.
Contractors are struggling with shortages of workers as the home-building market comes to life and some commercial sectors strengthen. The crunch is affecting a handful of states, including Texas, Arizona, Iowa and Florida. But it's expected to worsen and spread across the USA over the next few years, building officials say. The shortages are already prompting builders to raid each other's job sites for workers.
"It has been a shock for us," says Milton Chicas, who heads recruiting for Wayne Bros., a Kannapolis, N.C.-based commercial builder in the Southeast. "There are so many folks out of work right now, we thought we were going to have a large amount of individuals coming through the door"...
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Wayne Brothers was ranked #306 on the ENR’s Top 600 Specialty Contractors list! ENR (Engineering News Record) publishes this list each year based upon annual revenues of specialty contractors across the United States. Last year Wayne Brothers ranked #520, and we are excited to have jumped 214 spaces within just one year to #306! You can find out more in the October 15th publication of the ENR magazine.
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