014: Pathways to a Career in Construction Management
Meet Brad Caldon • Taree, NSW
Bachelor of Construction Management at Newcastle University
"With bachelor of construction management, you generally don't go through the entire degree without getting employed, it's a really good degree in that you gain employment pretty quick"
Today we are joined by Taree local Brad Caldon. Brad studied a Bachelor of Construction Management at Newcastle University and now runs residential building company Caldon Group.
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Hear from Brad Caldon as he speaks of his journey from disinterested high school student to running a successful residential building company.
“I completed year 12. And then went and started a carpentry apprenticeship through TAFE and I worked for Sorensen & Caldon Builders, which was my old man's building company. About halfway through that trade apprenticeship, I started applying for, or looking to apply for university and realised I didn't have the ATAR to do so. That presented other problems, because I really wanted to get in and do these bachelor of construction management degree. I found that was the one that was going to get me what I wanted to do. Initially, I wanted to work in Sydney on big high rise buildings and be amongst that, like, probably a lot of teenagers, Taree, when you're younger, it's probably perceived as a place you don't want to be, and then a couple years later, you realise, oh, hang on a sec, this was a really good place to live.
To get into that degree, I had to go back to uni and do open foundation as a pathway to get in, to get a better ATAR.
Whilst doing my carpentry apprenticeship to get that ATAR which then got me into university, it was a really good prep course to get me ready for uni.”
This is a 6 Degrees Podcast.