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Not a good look: assessing construction's image problem

By 2019-05-08T05:00:00

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A recent brace of surveys show that while construction is few youngsters’ first choice of career, once working inside the sector most find it fulfilling

Construction came in for a bit of a beating last week when a survey by Stace of 16- to 18-year-olds revealed that just 7% saw construction as their first choice of career.

The industry lost out to sectors such as law, IT and medicine and healthcare. Even teaching fared better – despite a recent study showing up to 50% of teachers were considering leaving after 10 years because of a workload that had turned out to be “worse than expected”.

Construction may be poorly regarded by those young people yet to pick a career, but in Building’s own survey last month of under-30s already working or studying in the sector, it was a different story. 

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