Recruiting Young Remodelers Alaska

Remodelers who lament the challenges of attracting new people to the profession often point to external factors — the demise of vocational education, the aging workforce, slackened work ethics — as the causes of their plight.

Local Companies

Accurate Contracting Services
907-947-5291
PO Box 111203
Anchorage, AK
Alaska Road Striping & SealMaster of Fairbanks
(907)378-2277
2020 van horn ct
Fairbanks, AK
Pure Art Design
209 465 2058
1806 W. Fremont St.
Stockton, AK
Ceramic & Stone Solutions
503 654 8281
2200 se oak grove blvd
milwaukie, AK
all-american kitchens
(815) 282-9543
6186 e riverside blvd
loves park, AK
Bathfixer
608-786-2773
551 Brickl Rd
West Salem, AK
BRAHAM'S UNIVERSAL
810-232-0462
Grand Blanc, AK
Northern Interiors-Anchorage
(907) 562-2464
2464 E Tudor Rd
Anchorage, AK
Scott's Home Improvement Company
(907) 490-2609
North Pole, AK
Alaska Construction Specialties Llc
(907) 373-3405
Wasilla, AK


View part one in series: Off the Radar

Remodelers who lament the challenges of attracting new people to the profession often point to external factors — the demise of vocational education, the aging workforce, slackened work ethics — as the causes of their plight. By the same token, they identify educators, policy makers, parents, and other external entities as the desired agents of change.

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Photo Credit: Michelle Thompson

Perhaps they should be looking in the mirror instead. In the highly fragmented remodeling industry, some of the most successful solutions to the skilled worker shortage are emerging from the bottom up, in modest but resourceful endeavors launched at the local level. These scrappy startups may seem inconsequential in the scheme of the $295 billion remodeling industry, but they're sustaining good companies and injecting them with bold new thinking for at least another generation or two. Collectively — and by the time the housing market is back on its feet — they might even help restore a sense of national luster to the building trades.

Here's a sampling of initiatives and opportunities, organized into four general categories:

  • Education
  • Training
  • Recruitment
  • Culture


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Featured Local Company

Accurate Contracting Services

907-947-5291
PO Box 111203
Anchorage, AK
www.accuratecontractingak.com


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