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How To Hire a New Estimator

Ernie Cvetezar

Typical story that always seems to happen – “your concrete raising business grows fast and as an owner operator you cannot keep up doing estimates and doing the work!” I have “been there done that” many times in my career.  So it is decision time – do I hire a worker to do the work or do I hire an estimator?

My experience is that most new owner operators choose to recruit an estimator.  Why:

It is easier to hire and train an estimator. HMI has created systems and the Appstimator Estimating App to allow you to train someone in as little as three days to estimate concrete repair.
Estimators can also double as temporary workers for peak periods and can be paid in multiple ways; salary, h

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