Is the construction industry hiring? In infrastructure and government contracting - YES!

My headhunter source, Joe Bunta of Nexxus Solutions out of the east coast tells me (a) he is seeing an increase in hiring generally, (b) the hiring is due to attrition and (c) an "up-tick" in hiring where his customers are looking for operational individuals (project supers., etc.). He notes only 5% of the stimulus money has been release....next year will be big year for infrastructure and military base expenditures. His construction economic group has done research to indicate the money gong out in 2010 to 2011 versus revenue reported by the top 400 last year will require contractors to grow to capture the opportunities.

I have known Joe along time and I do NOT believe he is puffing in his assessments. He noted that commercial work will be commercial renovation next year but perhaps 2011 commerical contracting will be back.......He also notes lower income housing is starting to come back in a major way.