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When you are in the trades in Chicagoland, hiring rarely gets your full attention. Maybe you are reviewing resumes from the front seat of your truck between jobs. Maybe your office manager is juggling applicant calls on top of scheduling, invoicing, and everything else on her plate. Either way, hiring gets squeezed into the margins of days that are already full.
The trades have always run lean on hiring. Whether you are a two-person crew or a fifty-person shop, nobody has a team dedicated to recruiting; you have the tools in front of you and a constant need for reliable hands.
Starting today, you have something better.
Collars for Employers is officially live on desktop. We took the precision matching of the Collars mobile app and expanded it into a massive, fully integrated hiring home base. We did not build a generic corporate portal; we built a dedicated command center specifically engineered for how owner-operated trades businesses actually hire.
Here is how the new desktop platform gets you off your phone and puts you back in total control of your crew’s growth:
When you sit down at your desk with your morning coffee, you do not want to click through five different menus to figure out where your staffing stands.
The new Collars Desktop Dashboard gives you absolute visibility the second you log in. You instantly see your new applicants, your active job postings, and your unread messages all in one single, organized view. Every active job pipeline is laid out right in front of you, meaning you know exactly who is ready to be interviewed and who is ready to be put to work before you even leave for the job site.
When you stop hunting for fragmented information across different apps and legal pads, you stop letting top talent slip away to your competitors. Every delay in your hiring process increases the chances of losing qualified workers to another employer.
The dashboard eliminates the morning hiring problems, giving you the immediate operational clarity you need to make fast, decisive offers the moment you start your day.
Every conversation you start on Collars is worth having, because every applicant profile gives you the full picture before you ever reach out. Collars for Employers brings those rich profiles to the big screen, and when you click on a candidate, you instantly see:
With all of that visual and financial detail on one large screen, the blind interview is gone. You no longer have to pull someone off a job site just to find out whether they can actually weld or read a blueprint. You have already seen their work and their expectations before you pick up the phone, so every interview you schedule is with someone who is actually the right fit for the job.With all of that visual and financial detail on one large screen, the blind interview is gone. You no longer have to pull someone off a job site just to find out whether they can actually weld or read a blueprint. You have already seen their work and their expectations before you pick up the phone, so every interview you schedule is with a professional who is genuinely ready for the job. Better hiring starts with knowing whether someone is actually the right fit before scheduling an interview.
When you are trying to hire three different trades for two different sites, good candidates fall through the cracks. They get lost in your text message history or buried in your email inbox.
Our new pipeline management tool is built specifically to stop the leaks. You can track every single candidate across every open role without ever switching tabs. With one click, you seamlessly move an applicant through the exact stages of the hiring process: New, Reviewing, Interview, Offer, and Hired.
A disorganized hiring process tells a high-quality tradesperson that your job sites are probably a disorganized mess, too. When you use a structured pipeline, you project absolute professionalism and maintain total operational momentum. You secure the best hands in the local market before another general contractor even has a chance to leave them a voicemail.
There are absolutely no recruiters, staffing agencies, or middlemen involved in the Collars ecosystem. When you see someone who fits your site, you talk to them directly.
The desktop platform features an integrated messaging system that keeps all your candidate conversations strictly organized by the specific job posting. You never have to guess which project a candidate applied for, and you never have to hand out your personal cell phone number until you are ready to make the final offer.
Calling a candidate and forgetting which job they applied for makes your business look unprofessional. Keeping your communication centralized and tied directly to the job posting protects your privacy, keeps your hiring efforts hyper-focused, and ensures your personal text messages are not flooded with random applicant questions at nine o'clock at night.
You have built an operation worth being proud of. Your hiring pipeline deserves the same organization and precision you bring to your job sites, and now it can have it.
If you are a current Collars employer, your desktop portal is ready and waiting. Log in today with your existing credentials, everything from your account carries right over.
If you are new to Collars and ready to run hiring like the rest of your business, start your 14-day free trial. You get full access to the desktop platform from day one, so you can post jobs, browse verified local professionals, and make your next great hire, with no charge until your trial ends.
Download our the Collars app now and start applying now.
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Collars is building a better future for the trades, by matching applicants and employers through a platform designed for real people, lasting careers, and the next generation of tradespeople.
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