Presentation Profile
Industry Trends in Workforce Development and Supporting Strategic Functions
Currently Scheduled: 10/16/2019 - 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: Jasmine Room
Main Author
Jennifer Donelson - Bureau Veritas
- Daniel Groves - Construction User’s Round Table (CURT)
- Jim Griffin - Assoc. Vice Chancellor & SVP at San Jacinto Colleg
Abstract:
In an environment where skilled labor is short, companies are looking at alternative ways to supplement their existing workforce. The Oil & Petroleum industry experiences swings of flurried employment and heavy layoffs due to boom and bust markets. The resultant job insecurity leads many skilled tradesmen and analysts to look outside this industry for gainful employment, even during boom markets. We will discuss the efforts taken by industry leaders to stabilize the workforce through support of internal and external educational programs designed to increase the number and training for tradesmen, while streamlining headcount through outsourcing strategic, not core, corporate functions.
