Recruiting Young Remodelers Dundalk MD

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

Matrix Design Build
410.280.1850
1010 West Street
Annapolis, MD
Accent Kitchen and Bath, Inc.
410 654 9777
8A Music Fair Road
Owings Mills, MD
Handyman On Call, LLC
443-850-6948
1319 Kingsbury rd
Owings Mills, MD
A & D Home Improvement Llc
(410) 477-4410
714 Wise Ave
Dundalk, MD
Woodell's Home Improvements Inc
(410) 285-4455
1113 N Point Rd
Dundalk, MD
Oriole Waterproofers
(410) 284-1440
2819 N Point Blvd
Dundalk, MD
Total Recall Services
(301) 473-7850
7216 James I Harris Memor
Frederick, MD
All American Kitchen & Bath
(410) 918-1555
10004 Pulaski Hwy
Middle River, MD
Thanos Remodeling
(301) 570-9392
20654 New Hampshire Ave
Brookeville, MD
Primary Choice
(301) 933-1127
Rockville, MD


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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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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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Matrix Design Build

410.280.1850
1010 West Street
Annapolis, MD
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