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Working As a Private Contractor

  • Getting Information
  • Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
  • Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
  • Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
  • Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work

  • Deal with People

  • Outdoors/walking/standing

  • Make Decisions

  • $56,000

    Average Salary

Example Of What A Private Contractor does

  • Removed paint from walls of apartment units and homes.
  • Inspected foreclosed homes, walkthroughs on properties, and data entry through the database.
  • Provide cleaning services for commercial and residential properties.
  • Hand tools, concrete, rakes and shovels.
  • Maintained two private residential homes.
  • Experience with Gravity Forms, Genesis WP framework, HTML, CSS, MAMP, e-commerce, and current WP plug-ins.
  • Research internet websites and search engines to ensure accurate search results
  • Record patient vital signs, take patients food and fluid intake/ output.
  • Provide elderly client assistance with meal preparations, grooming, daily needs and transportation to medical appointments.
  • Helped the patient with personal care.
  • Maintain company website and emails.
  • Operated plow truck for snow removal.
  • Manage job site and equipment.
  • Completed tear-down of existing structures and prepared for new construction.
  • Answer phone calls and making transfers.
  • Operate Closed Circuit Television(CCTV).
  • Completed projects involving farming, construction, and irrigation to improve the facilities and infrastructure of local businesses and private residences.
  • Gained knowledge of OSHA regulations and implementation.
  • Maintain 5 rental properties Perform grounds keeping and building maintenance
  • Assisted District Manager earn #1 in state through effective project management.

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Average Length of Employment
Building Contractor 6.4 years
Drywall Contractor 6.3 years
Plumbing Contractor 5.5 years
Construction Contractor 4.3 years
Maintenance Contractor 3.6 years
Contractor Supervisor 3.4 years
Private Contractor 3.0 years
Top Careers Before Private Contractor
Cashier 12.5%
Sales Associate 9.7%
Customer Service Representative 7.8%
Internship 7.4%
Assistant Manager 6.2%
Manager 6.0%
Server 4.6%
Volunteer 4.3%
Sales Representative 4.0%
Supervisor 3.9%
Driver 3.9%
Administrative Assistant 3.9%
Security Officer 3.8%
Delivery Driver 3.5%
Cook 3.4%
Owner 3.2%
Crew Member 3.2%
Owner/Operator 3.1%
Team Leader 2.8%
Office Manager 2.7%
Top Careers After Private Contractor
Cashier 10.3%
Sales Associate 8.6%
Customer Service Representative 7.2%
Driver 6.4%
Security Officer 5.7%
Internship 5.5%
Manager 5.5%
Server 5.2%
Volunteer 5.1%
Owner 4.8%
Assistant Manager 4.1%
Delivery Driver 3.9%
Technician 3.8%
Administrative Assistant 3.7%
Certified Nursing Assistant 3.6%
Forklift Operator 3.5%
Sales Representative 3.5%
Maintenance Technician 3.4%
Warehouse Worker 3.3%
Consultant 3.1%

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Top Skills for A Private Contractor

  1. Safe Environment
  2. Snow Removal
  3. Customer Service
You can check out examples of real life uses of top skills on resumes here:
  • Researched all types of resources to aide clients back to a healthy and safe environment for themselves and their children.
  • Job required snow removal on two of his properties if it snowed any more than two inches.
  • Direct responsibility for customer service satisfaction of all service provision.
  • Administer bedside and personal care including wound clean and personal hygiene.
  • General Contracting, Siding, roofing, plumbing, electrical, flooring, residential remodels and new construction, ordered materials.

Private Contractor Resume Examples And Tips

The average resume reviewer spends between 5 to 7 seconds looking at a single resume, which leaves the average job applier with roughly six seconds to make a killer first impression. Thanks to this, a single typo or error on your resume can disqualify you right out of the gate. At Zippia, we went through over 5,428 Private Contractor resumes and compiled some information about how best to optimize them. Here are some suggestions based on what we found, divided by the individual sections of the resume itself.

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Private Contractor Demographics

Gender

Male

65.4%

Female

24.7%

Unknown

9.9%
Ethnicity

White

61.1%

Hispanic or Latino

14.3%

Black or African American

10.5%

Asian

10.3%

Unknown

3.9%
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Foreign Languages Spoken

Spanish

54.1%

French

10.5%

Chinese

4.1%

Russian

3.5%

Portuguese

2.9%

German

2.9%

Japanese

2.9%

Korean

2.3%

Thai

2.3%

Italian

2.3%

Vietnamese

1.7%

Mandarin

1.7%

Dakota

1.7%

Arabic

1.7%

Ukrainian

1.2%

Dari

1.2%

Tagalog

1.2%

Swedish

0.6%

Gujarati

0.6%

Hindi

0.6%
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Private Contractor Education

Schools

University of Phoenix

16.8%

The Academy

6.3%

Kaplan University

5.9%

Portland State University

5.5%

Ashford University

5.0%

Arizona State University

5.0%

Florida State University

5.0%

University of North Texas

4.6%

Strayer University

4.2%

Oklahoma State University

4.2%

University of Washington

4.2%

Lincoln Technical Institute

3.8%

University of Colorado at Boulder

3.8%

Michigan State University

3.8%

Montgomery College

3.8%

New York University

3.8%

Pennsylvania State University

3.8%

San Diego State University

3.8%

Virginia Commonwealth University

3.4%

University of Utah

3.4%
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Majors

Business

23.9%

Criminal Justice

9.0%

Psychology

6.9%

General Studies

4.9%

Education

4.8%

Computer Science

4.7%

Nursing

4.7%

Accounting

4.1%

Management

3.7%

Communication

3.7%

Electrical Engineering

3.4%

Liberal Arts

3.4%

Social Work

3.2%

Graphic Design

3.0%

Health Care Administration

2.9%

Mechanical Engineering

2.9%

Automotive Technology

2.8%

Medical Assisting Services

2.7%

Finance

2.7%

Information Technology

2.7%
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Degrees

Bachelors

32.2%

Other

31.8%

Associate

13.3%

Masters

12.1%

Certificate

6.4%

Diploma

2.1%

Doctorate

1.7%

License

0.5%
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