Skills needed for the Construction Industry

  • Continuous Learning: Improving your skills with Internships, apprenticeships or taking additional Classes.

  • Decision Making: Making choices among options

  • Digital Technology: Using computer applications or technical tools to operate machinery.

  • Reading: Be able to read and interpret information from a document.

  • Planning and Organizing: Working independently to plan and organize daily tasks.

  • Math: Working with numbers to perform calculations.

  • Communication: Conveying or exchanging information verbally.

  • Problem Solving: Coming up with solutions to challenges.

  • Significant Use of Memory: Performing tasks that call upon greater memory use than most jobs.

  • Thinking Skills: Finding and evaluating information to make decisions, solve problems, and plan and organize job tasks.

  • Teamwork: Interacting with co-workers to get the job done.

  • Writing: Conveying ideas by writing text (emails, memos, reports, letters).