Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Sky’s the Limit

Area Energy & Electric Employees Rise From Apprenticeship to Management Positions   
By Jessica Porter

Be on time, watch your attendance, absorb all the training you can get, apply yourself with a good work ethic and the sky’s the limit. That’s the advice Ken Schlater, founder and CEO of Ohio-based Area Energy & Electric, Inc., gives to every person who comes to him with an interest in becoming an electrical contractor. A former high school business teacher and basketball coach, Schlater is a pro at giving talented young people the push they need to be successful.

After years of being mentored by his father, also an electrical contractor, Schlater left his teaching career and worked in the electrical contracting industry for 10 years until starting a company of his own. 

Read the entire story in Construction Executive.

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