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WHAT SHOULD INDUSTRY BE OFFERING TO THE


WORKFORCE? NEXT-GEN BY: MIKE CHALMERS


According to Te Chartered Institute of Building—the world’s leading source for construction management and leadership—the construction industry will need to find 157,000 new recruits by 2021 to keep up with demand.


We’ve known it for years: more workers are leaving than entering the skilled trades. And with approximately 40 percent of workers rapidly approaching retirement (ages 50-70), the pressure is on to rebuild the industry with a young, long-term workforce that recognizes the trades as both a financially rewarding and exciting career path— instead of what it has become in the eyes of many young people today: a fallback decision.


Millennials will make up three-quarters of the workforce by


2020. Generation Z isn’t far behind them—currently making up around 25 percent of the U.S. population. Needless to say, both groups differ quite a bit from their predecessors. Screen addictions notwithstanding, younger people today enter the workforce with certain expectations: a broader sense of the business they’re working within; a company that understands and implements tech in the workplace; and opportunities for vertical growth. To their credit, they also comprise an adaptive, innovative,


and—according to the numbers—robust workforce. But they’ve grown up in a culture that hasn’t exactly identified or seriously addressed the growing worker shortage (skills gap)—and as TV personality Mike Rowe explained below, has actually put systems in place to steer young people away from the skilled trades. In 2016, Rowe indicated as much in a piece on Fox— describing how a major problem in the U.S., and even globally, is that no one really knows how to talk about the skills gap. “Tere’s a belief and a narrative in the country that says we can cure unemployment by creating more opportunity,” he said, “and obviously there’s some truth to it, but the skills gap has nothing to do with unemployment. You can have all the opportunity and all the training in the world, but if you don’t


32 MARCH–APRIL 2019 WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE


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