At Jobs in Skilled Trade, we’re redefining how skilled trade candidates are discovered—through a transferable-skills-based platform.
We define skilled trades as hands-on, applied careers where people work with their hands, tools, and systems to build, repair, maintain, or operate essential work in the real world. These are experience-based roles where success is driven by practical skill, technical ability, and the capacity to perform real tasks—not just job titles or formal credentials.
We focus on both skilled trades and trade-adjacent roles where hands-on work and people who work with their hands are at the center of everything. This includes traditional skilled trades such as electrical, plumbing, HVAC, carpentry, welding, construction, and low-voltage work, as well as adjacent fields like technical healthcare roles, hospitality craft roles, industrial work, logistics, facilities maintenance, and other applied careers where people build real skills through doing the work.
Across all of these industries, success is driven by hands-on experience, practical skill, and transferable abilities that demonstrate what someone can actually do in real working environments.
Hiring in these fields works best when that hands-on capability is clearly understood. Today, that information is often spread across resumes, job titles, past roles, and personal networks. We’re building a more structured way to bring it together—centered on real, transferable skills gained through hands-on work.
Jobs in Skilled Trade was founded by a 20-year advocate in the industry who saw a consistent gap: many capable individuals—especially career changers and people who work with their hands across different industries—had valuable experience that wasn’t fully visible or easy to interpret in traditional hiring processes. At the same time, employers needed a clearer way to identify practical, hands-on capability beyond surface-level information.
Our platform was created to solve both sides of that problem.
We break hands-on work experience into verified, role-based skills—capturing the tasks, tools, and responsibilities that reflect real capability. This includes both trade-specific experience and transferable skills gained across different hands-on roles and industries. The result is a skills-based, role-by-role experience profile system built specifically for skilled trades and trade-adjacent careers.
For workers, this means a clearer path to opportunity. Whether you are experienced, transitioning careers, or just getting started, you can build a profile that represents what you can actually do through hands-on work—making it easier to be discovered and get interviews based on real capability, not just job titles.
For employers, it means faster, more confident hiring. Instead of relying on limited signals, you can identify candidates based on verified skills and relevant hands-on experience, helping you find capable people who are ready to contribute and grow on the job.
This isn’t just a job board. It’s a skills-first hiring platform—where hands-on experience is structured, transferable skills are recognized, and opportunity is created through better visibility on both sides.
We believe the future of skilled and applied work is stronger when the abilities of people who work with their hands are clearly understood, clearly communicated, and easy to discover.
Because what you can do—with your hands, your skills, and your experience—should always be part of the story.