{"id":17731,"date":"2018-01-05T16:19:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=17731"},"modified":"2018-01-05T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:19:06","slug":"a-view-from-the-school-why-young-people-dont-want-to-work-in-construction-by-a-young-person-sell-the-sector-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17731","title":{"rendered":"A view from the school: Why young people don\u2019t want to work in construction, by a young person \u2013 \u2018Sell the sector in school\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ConstructionWeek050118.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17732\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ConstructionWeek050118.png\" alt=\"Construction Week 050118\" width=\"250\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a>An opinion piece on UK ConstructionWeek explores why so few young people are taking up careers in construction, featuring a guest blog from a fifteen year old and Year 10 work experience student who says \u2018\u2026 the industry needs to do more to sell itself while girls and boys are still in school\u2019.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>UK ConstructionWeek guest blog asks:<\/p>\n<p>Why are millennials turning their backs on jobs in construction and what needs to be done to spin their opinions back around?<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen year old guest blogger and Year 10 work experience student, Jacques Prior-Chadfield, shares his views on why he and his peers haven\u2019t previously considered a career in construction. He also says the industry needs to do more to sell itself while girls and boys are still in school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukconstructionweek.com\/blog\/image\/1105-why-don-t-young-people-want-to-work-in-construction?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opinion piece on UK ConstructionWeek explores why so few young people are taking up careers in construction, featuring a guest blog from a fifteen year old and Year 10 work experience student who says \u2018\u2026 the industry needs to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17733,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions\/17733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}