There’s been a lot of talk in the press over the last couple of years about the knock on effects of the economic downturn for the construction industry. While that may be true of the country at large, the London construction industry faces at least some good news – in the form of the Olympic… Read More »
Recruiting good construction workers can be a costly business. Traditionally, agencies who supply workers to the construction trades take a big cut of the salary once a placement is made – and can charge fees that can make using them a financially impossible mission. Using an online construction recruitment agency like Construction Site Skills offers… Read More »
How does a construction site worker progress through the qualifications and accreditations necessary to get a Skilled CSCS Card. As a leading provider of both bookings for the Health Safety Test, and recruitment services for construction jobs London, we thought it would be useful to publish a case study. We’ll follow a single site worker… Read More »
The construction industry is uniquely structured. It comprises hundreds of different trades and job titles, which fall over a pretty wide variation in terms of overall job “types” – electrical engineering and all electrotechnical work, for example; or demolition; or heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Finding work in construction is made easier because the whole… Read More »
To a reasonable degree, the issues that used to exist in construction recruitment have been taken away by the widespread uptake of the CSCS and its colour coded cards. Historically construction recruitment was difficult from quality control and health and safety viewpoints. With no way of measuring the experience of a new employee, construction employers… Read More »
The first thing you need to do when you’re looking for a job in construction is to decide what you want to do. The construction and demolition industries are split into at least 350 trade types, so there’s clearly something for everyone – the trick lies in finding that right something for you. The construction… Read More »
Health and safety in the workplace is clearly very important no matter what trade or industry you are in. When you are in the construction industry though the importance of employee and site health and safety can become a matter of life and death. Building sites and construction trades are littered with risks and potentially… Read More »