U.S. Hires
Trades and Sales
Techs, tradesmen, installers and salespeople. The seats that show up on the job site and close the deal. Your hire, held to your standards.
Recruiting
We run the search. You make the call.
Two routes. U.S. hires for trades and sales, where you meet four elite finalists and spend about 3 hours. Or a Ballast managed AI Operator for the back office and systems.
Two routes
Pick the route that fits the seat.
Field and sales seats get a U.S. hire. Back office and systems seats get a Ballast managed AI Operator.
Per Role Build · Before and after
Forty hours of your time, or three.
Doing it yourself40+ hrs
Per role, squeezed between jobs.
- Write the role outline, SOP and scorecard from scratch
- Post, sort applicants and chase callbacks
- Run 12 to 20 first round interviews, no shows included
- Hire whoever happened to show up
With BallastAbout 3 hrs
One hour to set the scorecard. One two hour block with your finalists.
- We write the role outline, SOP and scorecard with you
- We hunt candidates on the boards, social media and industry groups
- We assess character as well as the résumé with Crew Fuel, then run every round one
- You meet four elite finalists and make the call
U.S. hires · Inside the search
We build the seat before we fill it.
Every step cuts the field down until only four people worth your time are left.
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Build the seat
You work with expert role builders on the role outline, SOPs and scorecard. Every hire lands in a seat built to win from day one, and those documents stay with you either way.
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Post and source
Job boards are fishing. We hunt. On top of the major boards, we work social media directly through DMs, industry groups and profile searches to reach the talent that isn't applying anywhere.
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Assess the fit
Volume is good, but candidates now use AI to sound better than they are. Separate behavioral and cognitive assessments show who fits on paper and who fits in character, against the role and the manager they'd report to.
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Round one
Another cut. Targeted questions written for your role separate the real ones from the fakes and force the best to the top. References get checked on everyone who clears.
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Four elite finalists
Four people worth your time, each with an interview guide built for the role. You meet them in one two hour block and hire against your own standards.
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Seventeen years of building recruiting engines and sales systems sit behind every search we run. Hiring commissioned salespeople, where a bad hire shows up on the scoreboard fast, shaped how we build the system around each one.
Ballast Operating CoQuestions
What owners ask us.
How much of my time does a hire take with Ballast?
About 3 hours. One hour to set the scorecard and one two hour block with your finalists. Doing it yourself usually takes 40 or more.
How many candidates will I meet?
Four finalists, screened against a scorecard built for your seat. We run every first round interview.
What happens if the hire doesn't work out?
Per role builds include a thirty day replacement if the person leaves or is let go for cause.
Where do you find candidates?
We pull candidate data from the job boards and hunt on social media and in industry groups. We assess every candidate with Crew Fuel, a behavioral and cognitive assessment, so you see character as well as the résumé.
Do I keep anything if we stop working together?
Yes. The role outline, SOP and scorecard are yours to keep.
Have a seat to fill?
Book 45 minutes. We'll look at the role, the pay and the market and tell you straight how the search would run.