By Emma Peterson. 

The Roofing Alliance scholar competitors offers college students the chance to study past the classroom by mentorships and networking.  

In a new episode of Roofing RoadTrips™, Megan Ellsworth hosted Kyle Cahill to speak about his function as a mentor within the tenth annual Roofing Alliance scholar competitors. Kyle is a undertaking supervisor at King of Texas Roofing in Texas and commenced his journey with the competitors as a participant in 2021.  

In 2020, he was doing his Texas A&M College lessons on-line and bought a neighborhood internship, with King of Texas Roofing. He recollects, “One of many undertaking managers was really a mentor of the roofing staff on the time for Texas A&M.” So, when his internship was over the next 12 months, Kyle competed. 

He discovered the competitors tremendous impactful to his profession and studying. He defined, “I used to be already studying slightly throughout my internship, however throughout the roofing competitors, college students are type of put in a extremely distinctive problem that they may not see anyplace else.” These distinctive challenges put together the rivals for the curveballs that they may frequently encounter within the trade. 

As part of the competitors, Kyle additionally bought to attend Worldwide Roofing Expo (IRE as a scholar. He discovered this expertise an enormous a part of the worth of the competitors. Kyle elaborated, “Being across the roofing world was a giant eyeopener. On the expo flooring there’s simply hundreds and hundreds of firms, producers and so they offer you a day to go and discuss to lots of them and see what they’re like.” Throughout the expo flooring, Kyle recollects producers and others within the trade working to recruit him and the opposite college students. It was a fantastic networking alternative and route into the trade.  

Now that he’s a undertaking supervisor, he’s excited to work with college students as their mentor. He famous, “The scholars take lessons about operations, estimating and simply how common tasks are managed. My job is to clarify how all of that takes place from the roofing subcontractor’s standpoint.”  

Learn the transcript or Hearken to the podcast to study extra about Roofing Alliance’s tenth annual scholar competitors.