Farm Labor Contractors
What they do:
Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.
On the job, you would:
- Pay wages of contracted farm laborers.
- Provide food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.
- Recruit and hire agricultural workers.
Knowledge
Business
- administrative services
- management
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- food production
- manufacture and distribution of products
Arts and Humanities
- foreign language
Math and Science
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Skills
Basic Skills
- talking to others
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Social
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
- understanding people's reactions
Abilities
Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
Personality
People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Leadership Orientation
- Dependability
- Stress Tolerance
- Attention to Detail
Technology
You might use software like this on the job:
Accounting software
- Bookkeeping software
- Intuit QuickBooks Hot Technology
Data base user interface and query software
- E-Verify
- Microsoft Access Hot Technology
Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel Hot Technology
Education
Education: (rated 1 of 4)
high school diploma/GED or
no high school diploma/GED
usually needed
no high school diploma/GED
usually needed
Get started on your career:
Find Licenses
Apprenticeship.gov
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