What does it cost?+
One thousand two hundred and fifty a month for a single open role, two thousand five hundred for up to three, four thousand five hundred for unlimited roles across more than one location. Advertising is extra and billed at cost on your own card, usually four hundred to twelve hundred a month. There is also a performance option: a thousand a month plus three thousand five hundred for each hire still there at ninety days. Set up is normally fifteen hundred and is waived for our first three Connecticut shops.
How is this different from a staffing agency?+
An agency charges ten to twenty five thousand dollars for one welder or machinist, owns the relationship with that person, and when he leaves in six months you pay it again. Here the applicants are yours, everyone who ever applied stays in your talent pool, and the cost per hire falls every time you use it rather than resetting.
We already have a careers page. Does this still do anything?+
Probably, and there is a fast way to find out. Open your own careers page on your phone and apply for one of your jobs. Time how long it takes and count how many times you needed something that was not in your pocket. Then see how long it takes anyone to get back to you. That test takes five minutes and it answers the question better than we can.
How quickly can the text replies go live?+
The reply to an applicant goes out by text, and text needs a carrier registration in your business name. Every US carrier now requires one before any business can send automated messages. We file it using your EIN and registered legal name, and approval usually takes a few days and occasionally a few weeks. Until it clears we do not start your advertising, because the two minute reply is the thing you are buying and running a version of this without it would waste your money and your applicants. The listing, the job page and the board are all set up while we wait.
Do we have to publish the pay rate?+
No, and we will tell you plainly what it costs you. A listing without a rate is the most common reason a good tradesman scrolls past, because he reads it as a shop that wants to negotiate from underneath. If you would rather not print a number we will write the listing without one, and we will show you the difference in applications when you change your mind.
How many people are you going to find us?+
We are not going to give you a number, because anyone who does is guessing at your pay rate, your shift and your reputation. What we will tell you is how many people saw the job, how many started the application, how many finished it, and how fast every one of them was answered. If applications are coming in and nobody is taking the job, that is a pay conversation and we will say so rather than sell you another month.
Who actually does the work?+
We do. You will not be sent a template to fill in or asked to supply your own photographs. We write the listing, come to the shop and film it, run the advertising, and answer the applicants. What you do is pick up the phone when it buzzes.
What happens if we stop?+
Thirty days notice after the first three months, no exit fee. Every applicant record exports on request, including on the last day. The job pages come down and the phone number stops, but the people who applied to you stay yours.
