What You'll Do

  • Pay wages of contracted farm laborers.
  • Provide food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.
  • Recruit and hire agricultural workers.
  • Employ foremen to deal directly with workers when recruiting, hiring, instructing, assigning tasks, and enforcing work rules.
  • Supervise the work of contracted employees.
  • Furnish tools for employee use.
  • Direct and transport workers to appropriate work sites.

Essential Skills

Speaking 3.5/5
Active Listening 3.38/5
Management of Personnel Resources 3.25/5
Time Management 3.12/5
Critical Thinking 3.0/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.0/5
Coordination 3.0/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.0/5
Reading Comprehension 2.75/5
Writing 2.75/5
Monitoring 2.75/5
Negotiation 2.75/5

Career Fit Overview

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Top passions

  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.
  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.

Common styles

Dependability, Integrity, Achievement/Effort, Cooperation, Initiative

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 3.62/5
Oral Expression 3.5/5
Speech Clarity 3.38/5
Speech Recognition 3.25/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.12/5
Near Vision 3.0/5
Written Comprehension 2.88/5
Written Expression 2.88/5

Technologies & Tools

Bookkeeping software E-Verify Facebook Financial accounting software Intuit QuickBooks Microsoft Access Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Outlook Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Word SAP software Web browser software

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Dependability (High importance: 4.16/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.16/5)
  • Achievement/Effort (High importance: 4.03/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 3.98/5)
  • Initiative (High importance: 3.89/5)

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How to Become One

Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful but is usually not required. Training is often provided on the job.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Farm Contractor Farm Crew Leader Farm Crew Member Farm Labor Contractor Farm Sanitation Employee Field Contractor Field Crop Harvest Contractor Field Manager Field Supervisor Harvest Contractor Harvesting Contractor