Critical Facilities Energy (CFE Group) is a U.S. based engineering and services firm specializing in the electrical and mechanical systems that keep mission-critical operations running without interruption. With more than two decades of field experience, the company has built its reputation on designing, installing, and maintaining high-reliability power infrastructure for data centers, industrial complexes, and government facilities where downtime is not an option.

CFE Group’s goal: Quickly fill positions for experienced state-licensed electricians willing to travel

In July 2025, CFE Group needed to quickly hire experienced and state-licensed electricians in Texas that had experience with both data centers and hospital projects. They had been using job boards to fill these positions and had no success. After seeing the power of Skillit’s platform to quickly source, interview and hire qualified craft workers, they decided to try Skillit for this critical hiring need. The results blew them away.

The two main recruiters, Managing Partner Matt Powell and Field Operations Lead Manny Cantos worked with Skillit to dial in their search and go to work scheduling interviews.

The solution: Using an existing job description to source and interview workers in minutes instead of weeks

CFE Group and the Skillit team started by entering the exact job description they had used in Skillit’s construction specific, AI-powered search engine. Within seconds, qualified workers that matched most or all requirements in the job description began to populate in the search results. A quick review by the recruiters identified a significant number of qualified candidates for this position. With a single click, Skillit’s AI-powered recruiting assistant, Sam, started to book interviews. In less than one hour, 50% of the candidates responded positively and scheduled interviews. From those interviews CFE Group was able to make the hires they needed quickly. This was al possible on Skillit due to:

• Large base of qualified craft workers: With 175k qualified craft workers ready to interview immediately, Skillit can source candidates in a few seconds as opposed to a job board which doesn’t start until the job is posted and often needs to stay up for weeks before enough qualified candidates are available.

• Intuitive, construction specific and AI powered search engine: By entering all job requirements—in this case the job description—into Skillit’s search engine, it will pull up the most qualified candidates, so only a quick review allows recruiters to find good candidates and put Sam to work.

• Worker’s on Skillit responding: Because Sam is introduced to workers during onboarding and worker’s know that Skillit only reaches out with good opportunities, the response rate Skillit gets is more than 10x better than any job board. This makes it easy to source and interview workers quickly, as Sam works fast to reach out and secure interview times that work for both the worker and the recruiter.

The combination of these three factors facilitated a quick and easy process for CFE Group to fill their hiring needs with only a small amount of time spent on the actual platform.

The result: Multiple hires made with only 14 minutes per hire spent on Skillit by the CFE Group recruiting team

CFE Group managed to hire qualified candidates from the initial search results with only 14 minutes per hire spent on the Skillit platform itself. Skillit is designed to scale construction recruiting efforts quickly without sacrificing talent or qualifications and with an unlimited hiring pricing model, Skillit is the anti-job board. The platform is 10x faster, 10x more cost effective and 10x better response rates than any job board.

The data speaks for itself:

• 14 minutes per hire

• 50% positive response rate in under 1 hour

• 25% sourced to hired rate