The seasonal nature of construction can sometimes make it tricky to predict hiring needs in the industry. While housing builds are historically, and regularly, low in February, factors like weather and other economic influences can drive demand up or down suddenly. Housing starts, the number of new residential construction projects that have begun during any particular month, are one of the driving factors for hiring across the industry, but can sometimes be unpredictable. June of 2019 saw over 245,000 new construction projects started; the […]