Craft HireBuild anything, anywhere, fast
Use purpose-built AI to access and hire skilled craft professionals on demand from America’s craft network.
Everyone’s here
Skillit is trusted by contractors all across the nation who need to hire craft, fast.
The craft network solving the workforce shortage
19 of every 20 craft workers America needs are out there and ready to work¹, but most still transact offline and remain difficult to find online using traditional search. Skillit uses AI to make them discoverable and easy to route to opportunities at your company.
7.3x
Growth in priority
trades annually²
10x
Higher connection rate
than Indeed³
12,000+
Annualized full-time hires by Skillit hiring partners⁴
Every craft. All markets. One network.
50+
Trades, including open shop, union, local, and travelers
78%
Coverage across major U.S. construction sectors
98.7%
Coverage across U.S. metropolitan areas
Craft hiring, made simple
Built for the way contractors actually hire, Craft Hire makes it easy to find, contact and hire skilled craft professionals whenever you need them.
Prompt to search
Simply describe who you need and Skillit’s AI turns it into a live search, continuously finding and matching qualified workers.
See vetted craft professionals
Get recommended candidates who are a strong match based on availability, pay expectations, skills verification, work authorization, and mobility, all before reaching out.
Connect instantly with AI
Skillit’s AI reaches out and gets candidates on the line for you. Automate outreach, scheduling, and followups. Prefer to call them yourself? That works too.
Craft Hire works across your team
Give everyone on your team one place to find, contact and hire craft workers, so you can work together and keep hiring moving.
From search to hire
Keep every candidate moving through one shared workflow, from first contact to hire. Give your team one view of every candidate and what happens next.
Know what’s working
Track your hiring funnel across recruiters, projects and teams. See where candidates convert, where they drop off and where your process can improve.
One workforce, whatever you build
Craft Hire gives you access to the craft workforce you need across commercial, civil and industrial projects.
AI & advanced tech
Data centers
Semiconductor fabs
Robotics
Advanced manufacturing
Energy
Nuclear
Grid modernization
Renewables
Battery plants
Landmark buildings
Skyscrapers
Stadiums
Hospitals
Universities
Transportation & infrastructure
Bridges
Tunnels
Airports
Rails
Ports
Housing
Apartments & Multifamily
Condominiums
Affordable & Workforce Housing
Student Housing
Senior Living
Ready from day one
Craft Hire is built to get your team hiring fast, without sacrificing reliability, security or support.
Get started instantly
✓ Self-serve signup
✓ No demo required
✓ No set up or implemtation
✓ Search for free
✓ Pay only when hiring
✓ Pause and resume anytime
Secure & compliant
✓ Secure data transmission
✓ Password encryption
✓ No sale of personal data
✓ GeoTrust certified
✓ Single sign-on (SSO)
✓ Data compliance
Self-serve support
✓ Step-by-step guides
✓ Search tips & best practices
✓ Account & billing help
✓ Frequently asked questions
✓ Available 24/7
Hire better, build more
Craft Hire gives you the craft workforce you need to take on more work, keep projects moving and grow your business.
Grow your crew.
Add skilled craft as your workload grows, without access to labor becoming the constraint.
Take on more work.
Find the craft you need beyond your immediate network, so you can take on jobs with confidence.
Keep projects moving.
Find qualified craft workers in days, not weeks, so open positions don’t slow down the work.
Spend less on hiring.
Hire craft directly without the cost of staffing agencies or expensive job postings.
Join the wave of contractors scaling their craft with Skillit
Frequently asked questions
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Craft Hire is designed for local contractors and smaller hiring teams making up to 30 craft hires per year, particularly companies that hire intermittently or don’t have dedicated recruiters. If you hire at higher volumes or across multiple markets and recruiting teams, Craft Hire Enterprise is likely a better fit.
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Craft Hire starts at $100/week per user. There’s no annual contract, and you can pause and resume anytime, so you only pay when you’re actively hiring.
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Yes. Search America’s craft network for free and see who matches your needs. You only pay when you’re ready to connect with a new worker.
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Your billing stops immediately, but your account and searches stay intact. You can also continue working with anyone you’ve already connected with, then resume your subscription whenever you’re ready to contact new Skillit members.
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Skillit includes skilled professionals across 50+ trades, including carpenters, electricians, heavy equipment operators, concrete workers and general labor. The network includes open-shop and union craft, both local workers and travelers, across commercial, civil and industrial construction.
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Yes. Skillit’s craft network spans nearly every major U.S. market, so you can search locally or find workers willing to travel for the right opportunity.
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Yes, but Skillit goes beyond traditional job posting. You prompt a search by describing who you are looking forand Skillit’s AI searches the network, identifies the strongest matches and intelligently surfaces the opportunity to the right workers. Instead of posting and waiting for applicants, Skillit actively creates the match.
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Skillit builds a detailed picture of every worker across skills, experience, project history and qualifications. We add proprietary craft assessments that use knowledge as a leading indicator of skill, along with employer feedback and interview intelligence, giving you significantly more signal than a traditional resume.
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Skillit doesn’t rely on job titles alone. During onboarding, AI asks workers about their experience and level, then combines that with skills, project and work history, assessment results and other signals. Employers can also search for specific experience, skills and levels, whether they need an apprentice, journeyman, foreman or highly specialized craft professional.
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Yes. Skillit has proprietary craft assessments across all trades that use knowledge as a leading indicator of skill. The questions are designed around the real-world knowledge expected at different levels of a trade, giving employers another objective signal alongside experience, work history and interviews.
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Once a worker is marked by you, and verified by Skillit, as hired, we suppress their profile for three months so competitors can’t poach them. At the same time, every hire makes the network smarter. Skillit uses the hiring event to find and acquire more workers like them, giving you an increasingly deep bench of proven talent.
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Skillit is building the network of skilled craft professionals by starting with real-world demand. Employers tell Skillit exactly who they need by posting requisitions across their projects. We use that live demand to intelligently onboard 10× more workers, turning their real-world skills and experience into a structured craft identity for the first time.
Our AI also makes every worker 10× more discoverable compared to job boards by reasoning across the millions of combinations and trade-offs that define a great fit. Skillit then continuously matches and routes the right workers to the best opportunities, creating a network that gets larger, smarter and more valuable with every hire.
¹ Based on ABC’s 2026 Workforce Shortage Model, the U.S. construction workforce totals 8.3M, with 349K additional workers needed in 2026—meaning ~96% of the required workforce already exists.
² Based on Skillit platform data (2026) covering electricians, carpenters, heavy equipment operators, concrete workers and general laborers in response to U.S. AI build-out.
³ Based on Skillit platform data compared with published Indeed recruiting benchmarks. Connection rate is defined as initial outreach resulting in a candidate attending a scheduled interview. Indeed: 2.64%; Skillit: 26.57%, or 10.06× higher. Indeed benchmarks sourced from Noon, Indeed Hiring Resources and Fountain’s 2024 Time-to-Hire Benchmark Report. Skillit data as of October 2026.
⁴ Based on Skillit platform data as of October 2026. Skillit hiring partners are reporting approximately 1,000 full-time craft hires per month through the network, equivalent to 12,000+ annualized hires.

