3 Questions To Help Grow Your Construction Career

It’s easy for those in the construction industry to hold themselves back, with many workers keeping their heads down and waiting for opportunities to be offered to them. However, a recent blog post from Construction Dive suggests that real progress is made when employees create their own opportunities. By identifying the best ways to contribute to both their personal growth and the organization’s success, workers can position themselves for faster advancement and stand out as someone ready to lead and create value.

Your personal goal is great, but does it align with the business’ goals? Does it align with the opportunities that are going to be available in the short term? With some slight adjustments, are there opportunities you could create for yourself right now?

For example, you may see yourself in an operations role over the long term, but upon talking to your owner or executive team, you find out that the head of estimating is going to retire in the next five years and they are looking for her replacement. Does that interest you? Is that an exciting opportunity?

Or, imagine the long-term plan is to open additional offices in new markets. Could you be the person to lead that charge? Are you willing to move and grow as each new office does?

Only you know the answer to those questions, but the point is, without knowing where you want to go and where the business wants to go, you can’t plan your path to growth. In other words, you might be chasing the wrong opportunities. Once you align your current efforts with long-term opportunities, you put yourself in a position to grow quickly — much more quickly than your peers.