Work With Your Handz is the skilled trades recruiting expert. Every day we reach out to hundreds of candidates to see if they’d be a good fit for our clients.
Texting is a major part of how we get a hold of our blue collar workers to fill open roles. If you think about people who literally work with their hands every day, their computer is their mobile device, and some of them don’t use emails at all.
We previously used RingCentral for our text campaigns, but it was not economical. They charge significantly more for a lot less compared to Text Request, which is why we switched. For a business that needs a software solely for text messaging, Text Request is the perfect fit at an affordable price.
Once we identify a new client, we’ll reach out to the candidates in our technician database who work in that same area. Most candidates are not looking for a job at that exact moment, so we use texts to touch base with them ongoing.
We’ll alert our passive candidates with a text that a new position is available, sometimes to thousands of candidates in one mass text. Our recruiters then use contact tags and groups to help organize conversations.
Regardless if the candidate is existing or brand new, our recruiters will schedule reminder texts in advance. They’ll also schedule a text to ask candidates how their interview went once it’s over. This ensures every candidate stays connected to us throughout the recruitment process.
Text Request provides the quality of a super expensive texting provider, without being super expensive. Their Help Center is also incredibly useful, and the software is easy to set up.
People expect texts from businesses now, because it’s most convenient for them, and our candidates rely on our messages to stay on top of the hiring process.
We love Text Request’s analytics and review user reports to see which of our recruiters are sending texts—because we want them to send a lot. A gentle text reminder from our recruiters is never invasive, because job candidates prefer them over phone calls. That’s why we send anywhere from 500+ texts a day to our job candidates.
