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Carolinas AGC’s (CAGC) Build Your Career (BYC) Program is excited to announce our new construction education video series. This five-part video series teaches students, educators, parents and jobseekers about the limitless rewarding career options within the construction industry. The video series can also be used by contractors or construction employers of any type to assist in their…
Charlotte, NC – March 30, 2021 – Carolinas AGC (CAGC) is excited to announce that its Build Your Career program has released a video series aimed at teaching students and educators about rewarding careers within the construction industry. The series, available on the Build Your Career (BYC) website and on the CAGC YouTube channel, also…
Carolinas AGC (CAGC) recently rolled out a new quarterly recognition program for its Build Your Career (BYC) workforce development initiative administered by the CAGC Foundation. CAGC’s BYC Ambassador of the Quarter for Fourth Quarter 2019 is Lori Hardaway of HardHat Workforce Solutions. Based in Columbia, S.C., Hardaway actively advocates for and promotes the mission and…
The Build Your Career (BYC) “Contractors in the Classroom” program is designed to place CAGC’s BYC Ambassadors directly in schools throughout the Carolinas region. The goal of this program is to educate students, their parents and teachers on the many amazing benefits of pursuing a career in the construction and craft trade industry. Through ongoing outreach programs…
Carolinas AGC (CAGC) Foundation’s Build Your Career (BYC) workforce development initiative has named Goosie Kennedy its first BYC Ambassador of the Quarter – part of a new recognition program rolled out this month. A project manager with general contracting firm D.R. Reynolds Company, Inc., Kennedy is not only an active Build Your Career Ambassador, but…
The Carolinas AGC Foundation’s Build Your Career workforce development initiative hosted its Spring 2019 Ambassador Summit Series meetings in Columbia, SC and Raleigh, NC. More than sixty CAGC Build Your Career (BYC) Ambassadors—our volunteer “boots on the ground” industry professionals—attended these meetings. “The biggest challenge the construction industry continues to face is attracting and recruiting new generations of workers into…
Carolinas AGC is pleased to announce that Tammy Ford, an experienced leader in developing highly successful and collaborative partnerships among charitable organizations, participating volunteers, community leaders and local businesses, has been hired as our new Build Your Career Director to help address the workforce shortage within the construction industry in the Carolinas. Tammy, who began…
In response to a recent company-wide “Innovation Day,” Blythe Construction was charged with coming up with creative ideas on how to engage the future generations in the field of construction. Challenge accepted: Blythe hosted its first annual STEM Kids day camp on June 29 at the company’s Charlotte headquarters. Intended to educate the next generation…
From Mt. Airy, N.C., all the way to Charleston, S.C. and in between, through the first five months of 2018 Carolinas AGC’s Build Your Career initiative has shared the story of great careers in the construction industry with over 7,000 students. With a booth at 13 Career Fairs, six classroom visits and the aid of…
The Carolinas Associated General Contractors (CAGC) recently held the Build Your Career Challenge, which began at the CAGC Annual Convention in January. As members donated money to Build Your Career (BYC), they were able to list their favorite college. If $20,000 was raised during that one campaign, the school with the most votes would be…
