The Blue Collar Recruiter & Virtual Trade School
As one of America’s fastest growing permanent placement recruiting firms in the skilled trades industry, The Blue Collar Recruiter has become one of the most-trusted providers of recruitment services and training solutions. The Blue Collar Recruiter serves businesses in the skilled trades industry that struggle with finding, attracting, and securing talent. We offer an array of services to help clients secure and train talent for their future growth. We offer direct hire recruitment, virtual trades training, job posting services, applicant tracking services, and business acquisition services within the skilled trades industry.
Our story. Our contribution.
The future of the skilled trades space.
The Blue Collar Recruiter's mission is simple. We locate highly valuable talent for business owners operating in skilled trades. The recruitment and retention of skilled tradespeople is our singular specialty. We employ a large and growing team of skilled recruiters in all areas to help our client businesses grow, helping them find outstanding people to join their teams.
Our history
The Blue Collar Recruiter and Virtual Trade School got its start in 2020 in Austin, Texas. Recognizing how underserved employers and candidates are in the blue-collar hiring space, we set out to design a recruiting system that incorporated candidate discovery and effective placement. Online, remote virtual training quickly became part of our service for employer teams and job applicants alike.
Today we specialize in recruiting and consulting for residential, commercial and industrial employers across the United States. Our team of experienced skilled trades recruiters work virtually to help our clients save time and money by utilizing our services to find the highly qualified, in-demand tradespeople they need to grow their companies. Our online trade school focuses on an ever-growing list of underserved trade verticals including Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing, Solar, Facilities Maintenance and Safety courses. Program participants are at a near one hundred percent success rate.
Who we are
Providing access to critical skilled trades talent and training
The Blue Collar Recruiter in Charlotte, NC, works throughout the Piedmont Region to meet the specialized hiring needs of local and regional skilled trades employers. Our relationship with you begins with understanding your business needs and the types of trade skills you need to build on your company’s success.
With nearly 20 years combined experience in Permanent Placement Recruiting, business operations, client service, and entrepreneurship, our team is passionate about leveraging our business knowledge to help employers, trades professionals and students navigate the skilled trades career landscape to find opportunities that align with their goals.
In addition to recruiting people already in the trades as well as career-changers seeking stable, well-paying careers in the trades, we encourage young people just out of high school to get into the trades. Our Virtual Trade School offers a gateway to rewarding, debt-free, and lucrative careers. Widely recognized among industry professionals, our remote self-paced training has launched or advanced the careers of more than 2,000 individuals since 2020.
South Charlotte Skilled Trade Recruiting. Consulting. Career Development.
Our Blue Collar Recruiter mission is clear.
- For our employer clients, we know how vital it is to have the right people with the right skills on your team. Our role is to find the people you need to serve your customers and help grow your company.
- For skilled tradespeople, we work hard to put you and your hard-earned expertise in front of the company owners and managers who will value your skills. We work with you as a job candidate, to understand what career moves you want to make and the job opportunities that will further your professional goals.
We understand how under-served the employers and candidates are that make the skilled trade industries run. We have designed a system incorporating discovery, training, and effective placement to do our part in tackling this challenge.
We are recruiting advocates for the skilled trades, not only in South Charlotte, North Carolina but also throughout the East Coast and across the U.S. for partners with a regional or national scope. Let’s partner and begin the recruiting journey together.
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Who is the Blue Collar Recruiter?
