{"id":1073,"date":"2017-06-23T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:36:00","slug":"do-your-estimators-need-more-training-a-simple-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/do-your-estimators-need-more-training-a-simple-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Do your estimators need more training? A Simple Test."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are some indications that you or estimators you work with need formal HCSS training? I use\u00a0one indicator to test\u00a0the depth of \u00a0the user&#8217;s HCSS knowledge. <em>If the estimator does not know about this feature then I know there are many more gaps in their knowledge. <\/em>I compare a HeavyBid user to a crane operator. Would you want to want to ask a crane operator what a handle or switch does and they reply that they never have used it and could tell you what it does? Of course not. I compare this to Heavybid because a knowledgeable &#8220;operator&#8221; of Heavybid is critical to the profit of a company. \u00a0So here is the feature &#8211; &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Change Material and Subcontractor Quantities and Costs<\/span>&#8220;. Not to be confused with the Local Material screen. Looks about the same but very different. If you or estimators have not\u00a0used this feature then formal training is critical because\u00a0I know there are many other features they are not using. \u00a0The feature I am referring is shown below. Ask around if you work with a group and see if they know what this icon does.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1075\" src=\"http:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Image2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Image2-1.jpg 419w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Image2-1-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1076\" src=\"http:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Image3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1321\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Image3.jpg 1321w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Image3-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Image3-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Image3-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Image3-1200x785.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1321px) 100vw, 1321px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are some indications that you or estimators you work with need formal HCSS training? I use\u00a0one indicator to test\u00a0the depth of \u00a0the user&#8217;s HCSS knowledge. If the estimator does not know about this feature then I know there are many more gaps in their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuing-education","category-productivity","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}