Central Texas is booming. While many parts of the country have not fully emerged from the housing crisis and recession, Texas continues on a tear with new building and thriving residential and commercial real estate markets.

And that shows no sign of letting up.

Construction crews are finishing office towers, industrial buildings, rental apartments and single-family homes — and breaking ground on others to meet demand from expanding businesses and the growing number of people who work for them and need homes.

It’s no wonder Texas leads the U.S. in construction job growth. Economists and property developers say the construction boom throughout the state, whether one main driver is fueling office, housing or industrial; jobs.

“The big picture in Texas that sets it apart is the incredible job growth,” said Adam Saphier, president of central Texas operations for Trammell Crow, the national development firm and subsidiary of CBRE.

Job growth in Houston, Dallas and Austin is twice that of the national average, Saphier said. Houston alone added 13,000 jobs in the last year. The state’s 6.4% jobless rate is almost a full percentage point below the national rate, even with heavy migration from other states.

So it poses the question, do we have enough construction workers to get the work done?  Are we doing all that we can to attract qualified workers from other areas or states to come do the work? Are contractors bidding these jobs knowing that skilled labor is in short supply and high demand? Forcing some to offer things like sign on bonuses, higher hourly wages, and even brining in traveling workforces (employees that travel to work and get paid per diem for hotel and meals) in order to complete the work.

In the past, when companies have a job opening, they go through the arduous process of advertising the said opening and waiting for job applicants to come filing in their doorways, aspiring to become hired before the day is over. After wards, the applicant you hired may still not be as efficient and as capable as what he or she appears on paper. Fortunately, the modern workplace has given rise to the needs of recruitment agencies. These are dubbed to be the better means to get the labor force that you want, simultaneously ensuring that you get only the best and the most proficient employee in the labor pool to suit your specific job opening requirements.

Here are some benefits to hiring a recruiting agency for this construction boom:

Benefit #1: Ease of finding employees. Recruitment agencies make hiring employees easier as they find the labor force, they filter them through an intense interview and skill test procedure, and send only the cream of the crop to your company.

Benefit #2: Save more money. Instead of paying ridiculously high prices just to circulate ads through newspapers, television and other forms of media just to advertise for applicants. Then spending more money in human resources to filter various resumes and applicants they receive, companies can merely pay the services of their chosen agency to get the best-qualified employees that they need.

Benefit #3: Save more time. Paying an agency fee entitles you to lessen the amount of applicants that you would get and have to screen through, compared to posting various ads in different forms of media. However, the aspiring job applicants that you will receive are assured to have the best skills that you will need for the specific job opening.

Recruitment agencies just like Building Team Solutions are making a mark in the industry of providing only the best employees and workers for various companies here and abroad.

For a free no obligation evaluation to see if using a strategic placement firm to recruit and source your manpower needs fits your business model, call us today. We will be the first to tell you if we can’t help and are happy to give you advise, strategies and ideas that might get you going on the right track to BUILDING your TEAMS.