A recent study has shown that there is a great need for practical artisanal skills. The reason is due to the fact that so many people are now opting to go into less tactile and tangible skills such as doctors, lawyers, and accountants. When trying to decide on your career path, it is good to assess your personal strengths and interests. You need to then also look at what jobs are currently popular and what are the trends in terms of jobs of the future. What are the skills that will be needed not now but in 20 years’ time? Then you need to find out, what is it that people will always need and can never do without. Once you have all that information at your finger-tips, start matching your personal profile, with the career opportunities available and the skills and abilities required for future employability. This will set you up with some good ideas that should be robust from there you could look at doing a bit of job shadowing to get an idea of what the day to day life of the job really entails because quite often it isn’t as exciting and romantic as it may seem. One such avenue is the building industry. For as long as we are growing in numbers, we will always need a building to work in and a roof to live under. The demand for buildings and construction will always be there.
Study
There are several ways to get into the building world, this could be either through studying engineering at university, or doing a series of courses in the construction industry. It is good to decide what level you want to get to, which part of the construction industry you want to be in, and what is required to get there. The certificate iv in building and construction Melbourne is a great programme that teaches aspiring builders who want to operate in low rise residential and commercial construction. It could also be for those who are involved in the management of property ranging from small to medium sizes building asset portfolios. The course is followed by three years of practical experience in the construction and building industry. Following that you will be in a position to become a registered builder.
Research
The skills that are involved in the building industry is so vast and diverse. It is worth doing research into all the different skills that are utilised. It can range from the on the ground hands-on artisanal bricklaying, plumbing, painting to name but a few, to the more people-orientated positions such as project management, site management, buyer and then to the desk-based work such as accounting, architecture, town planning.
Go green
A popular industry being absorbed into the property space is that of renewable energy and ‘green buildings. There is a great number of jobs in that space that one could investigate. Green building can start from something as seemingly non green such as the cement. It is also the insulation used, the windows, the ambient light, gas facilities, and solar geysers and panels.