About the test
The Laborer - Agricultural Pre-Employment Assessment was designed to help you hire staff in this role. The test provides a whole-person evaluation by measuring job-relevant cognitive ability, personality, knowledge, skills, and relevant behavioral history.
Each component provides important data for hiring decisions. Cognitive ability has been linked to overall job performance in most jobs and correlates with a candidate's
ability to learn new skills and to solve complex problems. Personality characteristics determine how well the candidate will fit-in with a corporate culture. Knowledge and skills indicate how much training will be needed before a new employee becomes productive. Finally, relevant behavioral history detects counter-productive behaviors that can impact job performance.
The Laborer - Agricultural test includes an animated work simulation in which candidates meet customers, colleagues and supervisors in a job-related context. Post-test surveys indicate the majority of candidates react favorably to these simulations.
The specific attributes measured include:
Cognitive Ability
- Memory / Attention to Detail / Logic & Reasoning
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Behavioral History
- History Survey - Performance
- History Survey - Tenure
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Personality
- Adaptability / Flexibility
- Conscientiousness
- Reliability
- Service Orientation
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Following completion, the test produces a Candidate Selection Report that includes an overall score and detailed scores for each attribute. The overall score weighs each of the factors based on research and analysis from the U.S. Government's Occupational Information Network (O*Net). O*Net represents over a decade of dedicated research evaluating the relative importance of various factors that lead to success in almost 1,000 different job roles.
The Candidate Selection Report also provides expert interview questions that help you probe critical or low-scoring areas, along with a guide for noting your evaluation of the candidate's responses. Consistent use of an interview guide is an important part of gaining better candidate insights and making better hiring decisions.
About the job
Laborer - Agricultural
Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.
Top activities and tasks for this job:
- Sell and deliver plants and flowers to customers.
- Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
- Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.
- Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.
- Regulate greenhouse conditions, and indoor and outdoor irrigation systems.
- Handling and Moving Objects
More information about this Job
Annual US Wages (2023) |
Bottom 10%: | | $30,590 or less |
Bottom 25%: | | $32,980 or less |
Median: | | $34,470 (Average) |
Top 25%: | | $37,010 or more |
Top 10%: | | $44,010 or more |
Hourly US Wages (2023) |
Bottom 10%: | | $14.71 or less |
Bottom 25%: | | $15.86 or less |
Median: | | $16.57 (Average) |
Top 25%: | | $17.79 or more |
Top 10%: | | $21.16 or more |
US Employment Statistics |
2023: | | 497,300 |
2033 (projected): | | 485,400 |
Annual U.S. Job Openings: | 73,700 |
Top Knowledge Requirements
- Biology
- Food Production
- Mechanical
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Top Skills
- Operations Monitoring
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
- Operation and Control
- Monitoring
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Top Abilities
- Trunk Strength
- Control Precision
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Multilimb Coordination
- Manual Dexterity
- Extent Flexibility
- Finger Dexterity
- Static Strength
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Education Requirements |
No High School Diploma: | | 39% |
High School Diploma: | | 29% |
Some College: | | 5% |
Bachelor's Degree: | | 15% |
Master's Degree: | | 5% |
Professional Degree: | | 3% |
This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role who have their highest education in each category. |
Related Work Experience Requirements |
None: | | 39% |
Less than 1 Month: | | 11% |
3 - 6 Months: | | 20% |
1 - 2 Years: | | 20% |
2 - 4 Years: | | 6% |
This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role whose related work experience before they entered this position falls into each category. |
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