For small GCs & remodelers hiring in a tight market
The people you want already have a job.
You don't have a labor-shortage problem — you have a reach problem. Roughly 70% of skilled trades aren't on the job boards; they're working for the shop down the road. This free checklist shows you the 7 places your next great hire slips away — before you ever make an offer — each with a 60-second check you can run against your last 3 hires.
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Free. No pricing, no pitch — just the checklist, the editable tracker, and every new one as it drops. First in line.
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What's in it
Seven places your next hire leaks out — from recruiting only when you're already short to the new hire who's gone in 33 days. Each comes with a 60-second check against your last 3 hires:
- Hiring only when you're short — reactive hiring is desperate hiring; the best shops recruit continuously.
- Fishing the 30% — job boards reach the actively-looking few; the 70% you want are passive.
- A description, not an ad — a duties list doesn't sell the move to a working candidate.
- "Great pay, family atmosphere" — the message everyone uses converts no one.
- Calling back next week — a strong candidate's interest is perishable; speed wins.
- Hiring the résumé, not the person — who they are beats what they know; fit is invisible in an interview.
- The 33-day quit — a third of hires leave fast when the job wasn't what they were told.
Who it's for
The 1-to-50-person general contractor or remodeler who's tired of "we can't find good people." If your last hire was whoever answered the ad, this is the fastest crew upgrade on your desk — because the people you actually want are out there, working for someone else.