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Government jobs report shows residential construction jobs continue to disappear.
Only the fortunate will be attending this year's NAHB convention.
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"Not only don't things slow down in December, but there's a sense of urgency to fill jobs in many cases," says Tim Jones, vice president of human resources for Ixia, a communications technology test systems maker based in Calabasas, Calif. Even though you may have heard otherwise, don't drop out of ...
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How to manage growth for optimal profitability.
WANT A TEAM THAT consistently goes for the gold ring? One way to assure your company's future is to always be on the offensive, recruiting the best people.
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You want all the perks associated with a job in your favorite niche but your background isn't an ideal fit. Here's how to turn the odds of success in your favor.
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John Sadofsky wanted to be ready when he started his first postcollege job at a big accounting firm in Chicago last fall. The 23-year-old read financial books, sought a mentor's advice, attended a company networking event and bought some dress shirts. "When you graduate, you're going off into the bi...
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As a bipartisan immigration bill enters the arena of political and public debate, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) weighed in, focusing mostly on what it called the "deputizing" of the home building community."Home builders are home builders. Law enforcement officers are law enforcem...
TEN TIMES,ADRIAN CALDERON SWAM THE RIO GRANDE in the dark trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States, carrying nothing more than an extra pair of jeans in a duffel bag. Ten times, he was turned back by border patrol officers. Finally, he had had enough.
BUILDERS IN THE FUTURE MAY WELL POINT TO May 9, 2006, as the day when the immigration debate stopped being academic for the housing industry. Early that morning, federal agents raided three of Fischer Homes' jobsites in Kentucky, Fischer's headquarters in Crestview Hills, Ky., and apartment complexe...
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Think that bias doesn't occur in any of your company's sales centers? Builders who say
Every one of your employees plays a critical role. But perhaps the most challenging positions to manage and retain are your site superintendents.
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By far, the technology person who can have the most impact on your company is the product-specific consultant who manages a back-office deployment.
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For the past three years, Houston-based David Weekley Homes has been on the magazine's list of the top 100 companies to work for. Sometimes the trips are company-wide; others are within divisions, Weekley says, and are designed to get sales and construction interested in each other's performance.Whi...
If the U.S. Department of Labor projections hold true, the shortage of qualified workers soon to materialize may make the labor problems of the late 1990s look like a walk in the park. In addition to builders' own efforts to attract and retain help, NAHB economist Michael Carliner points to two demo...
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If you focus only on superstars, hiring and retaining key personnel can drive you out of business in a hurry."The opposite approach," he explains, "is to develop systems for project management--what needs to be done, how we do it here, systems for scheduling, ordering, etc. Then you don't need the a...