01/04/2017

Contractor Group Aims to Quell Workforce Shortage

The initiative focuses on Millennial recruitment

Facing an industry workforce shortage, the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association has deployed an initiative with the goal of attracting more than 100,000 Millennials to the workforce by 2020.

A good education is key to a successful future.

But with a new initiative, the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association is hoping Millennials will expand their ideas about what kinds of education and careers lead to the good life.

“For a long time, we promoted people going to work in the skilled trades and then the education system changed across the U.S.,” said PHCC Educational Foundation COO Cindy Sheridan, CAE. “Most schools were pushing students to go to college, so all of a sudden it wasn’t cool to go into the trades.”

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