General construction workers need to:

Communicate

• Understand spoken information.
• Speak clearly so listeners can understand.
• Listen to others and ask questions.

Reason and Problem Solve

• Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
• Follow guidelines to arrange objects or actions in a certain order.
• Concentrate and not be distracted while performing a task.
• Develop rules that group items in various ways.
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• Use reasoning to discover answers to problems.

Work with People

• Change behavior in relation to others’ actions.

Work with Things

• Operate and control equipment.
• Watch gauges, dials, and output to make sure a machine is working properly.