A recent survey of American construction industry employers in all 50 states shows that the majority (71%) expects no change in their employment outlook for the Q1 of 2016, and another survey by the same group states that employers continue to be frustrated by the difficulty of finding certain talented professionals—including IT, engineering and—surprise, surprise—the skilled trades.
ManpowerGroup, Milwaukee, Wiss., a worldwide employment agency, conducted 11,000 interviews with U.S. based employers in the top 100 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The questions aimed to gauge employer-hiring intent in the first three months of the year. To categorize the results, the U.S. was broken up into four geographic regions: Midwest, Northeast, South and West.