🔧 Skilled Trades Recruiting

Hire the trades everyone is fighting over

Electricians, HVAC techs, plumbers, welders, mechanics — the candidates are scarce, employed, and rarely polishing resumes. RecruiterPM meets them where they are: on their phones, over text, and inside a database that compounds instead of a job board that charges rent.

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Roles you'll fill with itElectriciansHVAC TechniciansPlumbersWelders & FabricatorsDiesel & Auto MechanicsMachinists & CNC OperatorsMaintenance TechniciansApprentices Across Trades

The trades shortage isn't news — it's the operating environment. There are more open requisitions than available licensed tradespeople in most U.S. markets, which means the passive candidate isn't a nice-to-have channel: it's the channel. Software built for white-collar applicant flow simply doesn't work here.

Text-first, because that's where they are

Tradespeople answer SMS, not InMail

RecruiterPM runs the entire candidate conversation over text: outreach, screening, scheduling, reminders, offers. Mass SMS campaigns re-activate your past applicants the day a matching job lands — the message arrives on a lunch break, and the reply comes back before the shift ends.

Individual and mass SMS built into the platform
SMS interview scheduling with automated reminders
Re-engagement campaigns triggered by new openings

A database that compounds

Stop re-buying the same candidates

Every applicant, every sourced profile, every referral stays searchable forever — organized by trade, cert, license, and location. AI Search & Match resurfaces past candidates for every new opening, so year two of RecruiterPM is cheaper than year one. Job boards can't say that.

Every candidate saved and AI-searchable across trades
Match from a job description, a title, or a similar candidate
Documented customer result: $20,000+ cut from hiring spend

RecruiterPM candidate database with AI ranking

Source the ones who never apply

800M+ profiles behind one search bar

Through the ContactSearch.AI partnership, search 800M+ professional contacts by trade title, keywords, and radius. Preview matches free, reveal verified emails and mobiles only for the ones you want, and push them straight into your pipeline. It's the passive-candidate engine trades recruiting has been missing.

Search by trade title, keyword, and location radius
Verified emails, mobile numbers, and work history
Free preview before any contact is revealed

The skilled trades sourcing playbook

Three moves that fill the pipeline

Distribute wide, organically

One posting → hundreds of trade and general boards, without per-post bleed.

Source direct with ContactSearch.AI

800M+ contacts searchable by trade and radius, with mobiles for text outreach.

Compound the database

Knockout screening files every applicant cleanly; re-engagement drips make the second hire cheaper than the first.

One feature · two editions

Tuned for how you hire

Staffing & Recruiting Agencies

Staffing this industry for clients?

Running a trades desk for contractor clients? The Agency edition adds submittals, client portals, and per-client boards to the same SMS-first machinery.

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Employers & HR Teams

Hiring for your own operation?

Hiring tradespeople for your own company? The Employer edition keeps it lean: post, screen, text, hire, onboard — one login.

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Skilled Trades FAQ

Frequently asked

What makes RecruiterPM different for trades vs. a generic ATS?

SMS-first communication, mobile fast-apply career pages, license and cert screening, and direct sourcing of passive tradespeople through ContactSearch.AI — the workflows trades hiring actually needs, not adapted white-collar ones.

Can I track licenses and certifications across multiple trades?

Yes — custom fields handle licenses, certs, and expirations per trade, and knockout screening verifies them at application time.

What kind of results have trades companies seen?

A garage-door repair contractor documented cutting over $20,000 in hiring spend by replacing monthly job-ad subscriptions with organic distribution and an internal candidate database.

How does sourcing passive tradespeople work?

Search ContactSearch.AI's 800M+ profiles by trade title and location, preview free, reveal verified mobiles and emails for the profiles you choose, and run text-first outreach from the same pipeline.