TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF HOME BUILDERS Filipczak is the first to acknowledge the realities of the current shortages in skilled trades labor. Anticipating a shortfall of young professionals entering the field has led C&M Home Builders to reach out to local high schools and colleges to recruit potential talent. “We go to the Chippewa Valley Technical College and the high schools and we have a good relationship with them.” Beyond these direct links to potential local future trades professionals, C&M Home Builders has formed a foundation to help foster the growth of skilled trades in their local communities. “Our foundation offers quite a few scholarships every year, not just for the building program but just in general because it is such a good and affordable solution to college for a lot of people and then 60 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 12, ISSUE 02
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