Construction portrayed as viable employment pathway

The results of two different analyses on hiring and employment point to the construction industry as one offering solid hiring prospects for those seeking work in the sector.

A recently released study from the San Francisco-based management software platform Asana, which analyzed the latest college scorecard data release from the United States Department of Education, demonstrated favorable results for holders of construction management degrees.

The summary from Asana ranked that degree as having the second highest rate (98.6 percent) of graduates finding work with a year of attaining their degrees. Only three co-related degrees in nursing (at 98.9 percent) ranked higher.

Asana says its analysis covered results for more than 2,200 construction management degree holders who graduated between 2014 and 2020.

Also making the list were construction engineering technologies degree holders, in fifth place with a 98.2 percent job placement rate, and civil engineer graduates, ranking ninth with a 97.9 percent success rate finding employment.

In a separate analysis, Seattle-based has singled out two construction subsectors as among the fastest-growing occupations in the U.S.

The study of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment figures from 2020 to 2024 tied to specific occupations showed two classified as part of the larger construction field: reinforcing iron and rebar workers (167 percent job growth); and rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators (120 percent job growth).

The PlusDocs analysis does not specify whether the rebar positions cover both steel mill workers and downstream fabricators and construction site installers.