Cutting Edge: Finding New Talent 

Join UCA at the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters Training Center for a continuing education seminar. Learn what cutting edge strategies and best practices are being used both inside and outside the construction industry. Mark Breslin is a nationally-recognized speaker on the transformation of workforce leadership within the construction industry.

Key Content of this presentation will include:

• Respective roles of the End User, Contractor and Union in the construction process
• Demographic curve of the generations with projected attrition over the short and long term
• Implications of the average apprentice age being 27 years old
• Cross-industry analysis of competition for the 18-25 year-old age group
• Key elements of workplace motivation and retention
• Operational and political obstacles to success
• Recruitmen and retention strategies being used by Fortune 500 manufacturing, energy and other industries
• Recruitment and retention strategies being used by law enforcement and the military
• Best Workplace Practives for Labor and Management