re: Construction Management: Industrial and Commercial

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A large percentage of the graduates in the field you are wanting to select will graduate and begin seeking employment feeling as though they are ready to be the boss and change the world when in reality they don't know their arse from a hole in the ground.

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Well put. My $.02. I am in Oil & Gas construction. Specifically, we build pipelines and facilities and will recruit guys with Engineering and CM degrees to come to work for us after graduation. We rotate them from the field doing grunt office shite and into the office to see how accounting/estimating play critical roles in what the field does. The overall goal is to groom them into future PM's. I have probably been around 7-8 of these guys we have hired from UT, LSU, UofH, A&M, and one from ULL. The only ones worth a frick that made it into PM's are the ones that had field experience that they either got before college or during.