What You'll Do

  • Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
  • Keep parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized.
  • Direct motorists to parking areas or parking spaces, using hand signals or flashlights as necessary.
  • Patrol parking areas to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle or property thefts.
  • Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots.
  • Greet customers and open their car doors.
  • Lift, position, and remove barricades to open or close parking areas.
  • Inspect vehicles to detect any damage.
  • Escort customers to their vehicles to ensure their safety.
  • Perform maintenance on cars in storage to protect tires, batteries, or exteriors from deterioration.

Essential Skills

Speaking 3.5/5
Service Orientation 3.38/5
Active Listening 3.25/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.0/5
Critical Thinking 2.88/5
Writing 2.75/5
Mathematics 2.75/5
Monitoring 2.75/5
Coordination 2.75/5
Judgment and Decision Making 2.75/5
Operation and Control 2.62/5
Reading Comprehension 2.5/5

Career Fit Overview

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Top passions

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

Common styles

Integrity, Self-Control, Dependability, Stress Tolerance, Independence

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Far Vision 3.5/5
Oral Comprehension 3.38/5
Oral Expression 3.38/5
Near Vision 3.38/5
Speech Recognition 3.38/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.25/5
Speech Clarity 3.25/5
Spatial Orientation 3.12/5

Technologies & Tools

CorePark Valet Email software Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Word Payment processing software SMS Valet

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Integrity (High importance: 4.28/5)
  • Self-Control (High importance: 4.05/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 3.98/5)
  • Stress Tolerance (High importance: 3.82/5)
  • Independence (High importance: 3.66/5)

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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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