Personality Quiz - What Kind of Industrial Contractor Is Best For You?

Are you the Experience Enjoyer? The Truth Seeker? How about the Overwhelmed Achiever? Go on, find out which Industrial Contractor best matches your personality type by taking the quiz below.

How thorough do you need the project scope to be before work starts?

I don't care as long as the job gets done right.

I like to be a little flexible to address unexpected issues as they come up.

I want the scope spelled out in exacting detail.

How many of your contractor's employees do you know by name?

Are you kidding? Sometimes I barely have time to remember my own name.

I know the names of a couple of the guys who I trust.

All of them.

Is it important for contractors to share their bids

Absolutely. I need to understand exactly how my money is being spent.

That's all I need is another set of papers to go through. I just want the bottom line.

It isn't nearly as important as meeting the guys I'm actually going to be working with.

Is it important for your contractor to make you personally look good?

My contractor needs to worry about how he makes himself look. I'll worry about making myself look good.

Just make sure the job goes smoothly and everything else will take care of itself

I'm judged by the work he does. He better make me look good.

Do you like it if your contractor cracks a lot of jokes?

An occasional joke is fine, but I don’t want to pay him to practice his stand up routine while the work isn't getting done.

It depends. Are the jokes funny?

I have way too many other things to do when I'm at work then listen to jokes.

If you discovered a contractor had lied to you about something what would you do?

I'd start by asking them why they lied.

Immediate termination. No discussion.

I'd be reluctant to fire them without knowing more only because there's a huge time investment in finding and hiring someone else to do the job.

Which of these traits is most important in a contractor?

Being someone I can build a long-term relationship with.

Doing what you say you'll do when you say you'll do it.

Getting the job done without a lot of hand-holding.