Business View Magazine - Sept 2023

27 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 9 programs, recruiting, and at career fairs to ensure work crews are fully staffed. That includes Association members participating in things like WisDOT’s Highway Skills Contractor Training (HSCT), a six-week course that connects job seekers with transportation construction contractors, many willing to hire and place an employee on-site within a matter of a week. “They overcome the struggle of thinking that they aren’t going to be good enough or that they won’t be successful because these contractors will help them to learn those skills and to be successful. They just have to want it,” HCST Southwest Coordinator Lorie Thompson said during a recent “speed networking” event featuring a handful of WTBA companies. The WTBA also connects industry experts at a wide variety of events and conventions throughout the year. “All these events that the WTBA does just brings everybody together and I keep saying: the face- to-face time is so important,” Ramthun said. WISCONSIN TRANSPORTAT ION BUI LDERS ASSOCIAT ION (WTBA)