Every day you leave a seat open you lose money.

Let us do the hiring, and pay us only when someone we find stays for at least 30 days. We've placed HVAC techs, CDL drivers, diesel mechanics, and electricians.

110,000
Open HVAC tech seats in the US
45–90
Days the average seat sits empty
7
Days until we present candidates
30
Day replacement guarantee
Sourcing

We're always searching. Job boards, referrals, union halls, trade schools, the techs your competitors are underpaying. We find the people who aren't applying.

Wherever they are

Most good tradespeople aren't on Indeed. We call, text and show up where they already are.

Licensed and local

EPA 608, CDL-A with clean MVR, journeyman card. We verify before you ever see a name.

Candidates in 7 days

Vetted candidates on your desk within 7 days. Miss the deadline and we pay you $500.

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Technician in uniform outside a service building
Tradesman holding a power tool
Screening

We're always vetting. Phone screens, reference calls, background and drug checks, the awkward pay conversation. You only meet people worth your time.

The phone calls

Every candidate is screened by a recruiter who has worked the trade, not a keyword filter.

The follow-ups

"Did he confirm the interview?" "Did her references call back?" We chase every loose thread so you don't.

The scheduling

Interviews land on your calendar. Offers go out the same day you say yes.

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Guarantee

We're paid when they stay. No retainer, no deposit, no invoice on day one. If the hire doesn't last 30 days, you owe nothing.

$0 up front

Nothing due at signature, nothing due at offer, nothing due at start.

One flat fee

$7,500 per hire. No retainers, no percentage math. Due only after day 30.

If they leave

He leaves or you fire him inside 30 days: we replace him free. As many times as it takes.

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Invoice timelineDay 0 to day 30
Day 0 · Signed
$0
Day 1 · Start
$0
Day 7 · Candidates
$0
Day 30 · Proven out
$7,500
The terms, written like an invoice

You cannot lose money trying us.

Read the line items. Everything is free until the hire is standing in your shop on day 30. If we miss, we pay you.

The Recruiting Line — Fee schedulePer hire
Search opened, seat briefed
15-minute call. We map the role, pay band, certs, and territory.
$0
Vetted candidates presented within 7 days
Licensed, screened, reference-checked, ready to interview.
$0
You hire. We negotiate the offer, set the start date.
He shows up day one. Still nothing due.
$0
Hire completes his first 30 days
The only line you ever pay, and only once he has proven out.
$7,500
We miss the 7-day candidate deadline
No vetted candidates on your desk by day 7 and the miss is on us. Search continues, and you get paid for the wait.
we pay you $500
He leaves or you fire him inside 30 days
We replace him free. As many times as it takes.
$0
Keep running your own ads the whole time. If your posting beats us to the hire, you owe nothing.
Do the math on a $70k tech
Contingency firm, 20–25% of salary
$14,000–$17,500
Unvetted resumes. No guarantee. Due on start date.
The Recruiting Line
$7,500
Vetted, 30-day replacement, due only after day 30.
Payback on a filled truck
7.5 days
At $1,000 a day of billable revenue the seat was losing.
How it runs

Built to move at breakdown speed.

Day 0
Brief the seat

One 15-minute call. Role, certs, pay band, territory, what the last guy got wrong.

Days 1–7
We hunt

Applicants and passive techs screened the same day they surface, day or night. You see only the ones worth your time.

Days 7–14
Interview & offer

We schedule everything inside 48 hours and negotiate the offer so it sticks. Deals die in the gaps; we don't leave gaps.

Days 1–30
He proves out or we replace him

Check-ins at day 7 and day 30. If it breaks inside the first 30 days, we run it again for free.

Fit check

Who this is for.

Open a work order if you are
A multi-location or PE-backed home services operator with an approved, open tech seat
An independent shop where an empty truck is costing you jobs this week
Tired of paying 20–25% of salary for unvetted resumes and no guarantee
Ready to interview within 48 hours of seeing a candidate
We're the wrong call if you
Want to "build a pipeline" with no approved hire behind it
Need temp day labor rather than a permanent tech
Pay under market and want a recruiter to talk someone into it
Take three weeks to schedule an interview
First operator in your metro?

Founding clients get the full service and the full guarantee at $7,500 flat, in exchange for a case study when we fill your seat. One operator per metro. When it's gone, it's gone.

$12,500$7,500
The only question that matters

What did the empty seat cost you today?

Tell us the seat. We call you within one business hour, and you pay nothing until a tech you chose has already worked a month.

Rather talk now? Email contact@therecruitingline.com.

Work order: new seat15-minute brief follows
No retainer. No invoice until day 30.