NCCER in the News: BIC Magazine – Building careers, changing lives: Boyd Worsham’s mission at NCCER

NCCER President and CEO Boyd Worsham was recently featured article by BIC Magazine. The story highlights Worsham’s career in construction that has spanned more than four decades, beginning as a carpentry apprentice and rising to executive levels and leading the nation’s leader in construction education.

Article Excerpt:

Too many people in the industry still talk to students about construction as a craft-only career.

“My carpentry instructor told me he was going to teach me everything about carpentry so that I would be successful in the business of construction,” Worsham said. “It never occurred to me that I would only be a carpenter. The craft is the entry point, and then we get to do whatever we’re skilled at and capable of doing.”

He wants students, parents and mid-career professionals to understand that progression happens rapidly for those who show initiative. But the industry has to do its part.

“Only about 23% of students in this country that go through construction-related career technical education programs go to industry when they leave school,” Worsham said. “You know why? Because we, as industry, have not connected. We haven’t gone in and said, ’Let me tell you about the opportunities in my organization.”

To read the full article, click here.