Construction Business.com will help you find what you're looking for. Browse through more than 65,000 categories. You can find all the vendors, and goods you need to get for your house. Construction offers a great variety of career opportunities. People with many different talents and educational backgrounds—managers, clerical workers, skilled craftsworkers, semiskilled workers, and laborers—find job opportunities in the construction industry.
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In today’s Industry people may enter most jobs in the construction industry without any formal classroom training after high school. Most skilled craft jobs require proficiency in reading and mathematics. Safety training is required for most jobs. Some laborers can learn their job in a few days, but the skills required for many jobs are substantial; they can be learned through apprenticeships or other employer-provided training programs.

Construction workers gesture in front of a official UEFA EURO 2008 logo in the fan zone at Rathausplatz square in
Vienna June 6, 2008. The European Championship will generate a record income of about 1.3 billion euros ($2.00 billion), UEFA general secretary David Taylor said on Friday.
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Apprenticeships administered by local employers, trade associations, and trade unions provide the most thorough training. Apprenticeships usually last between 3 and 5 years and consist of on-the-job training and 144 hours or more of related classroom instruction each year. However, a number of apprenticeship programs are now using competency standards in place of time requirements, making it possible to complete a program in a shorter time.
A worker pushes a wheelbarrow at the site of a new fertiliser plant in Damietta, 200km (124 miles) northeast of
Cairo June 8, 2008. Residents of the city have been calling for a stop to the construction of a nearby fertiliser plant being built on the nearby
island of
Ras al-Barr, a popular Egyptian sea resort. Construction on the plant, which is run by the Egytian-Canadian joint venture E-Agrium, began in April.
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