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Tradesmen Our founder was an army veteran and our first general manager was a navy vet. In saying so, Tradesmen has always proactively recruited retired military, active duty and national guardsmen on our team. How is Tradesmen able hire and retain experienced craft professionals during this skilled labor shortage?. While Tradesmen is impacted by the shortage of skilled and experienced craftsmen, we have extensive recruiting resources that will surprise you. Learn how we're able to support your manpower needs.
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In 1992, the face of construction labor support was the conventional "temporary labor staffing solution." But that face was about to change. A commercial electrical contractor in Northeast Ohio, Joseph O. Wesley, had recognized first-hand the vast need for a new construction staffing paradigm: one in which a contingent construction labor force of superior quality could supplement a contractor's core workforce in order to level out workload peaks and valleys, and better match workload to workers.To achieve it, Mr. Wesley founded Tradesmen International.
Tradesmen International provides construction contractors and industrial companies with North America's best, safety-minded skilled craftsmen. We're able to do so because we have more than 175 construction-specific recruiters based out of our National Recruiting Center and network of nearly 200 local market service teams.
With local market service teams and construction staffing offices across North America, Tradesmen can support all your skilled labor needs. We're proud to have provided commercial, industrial, manufacturing and residential staffing support with craftsmen who emphasize safety, productivity and craftsmanship for nearly three decades.
Tradesmen's proven CORE+Flex methodology enables contractors to run with a leaner full-time crew and, as workload exceeds what they can handle, we flex in skilled trades precisely when needed to optimize the work-to-worker ratio. We're proud to provide Commercial, Industrial and Residential Staffing, as well as Manufacturing Staffing support with craftworkers who emphasize Safety, Productivity and Craftsmanship.
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Payton Sims
Oct 18, 2021
Worse place to work in my opinion. 2 years there. Not the place I would recommend to anybody.
Bruce Botchick
Jun 22, 2021
Our experience with Tradesmen has been poor. Workers who do not show up, workers have stolen our tools. In the case of missing tools when we ask for Tradesmen to return our tools or make the situation right they ignore us. We contacted them regarding this situation 4-21-2021 explaining we would hold remittance to them until our tools were returned. Now we get letters threatening collection and no offer of re-imbursement. You are better off going to another agency or just plain doing less work. Stay away from Tradesmen!
Jason Link
Jun 13, 2020
I worked for tradesman for about 4-5 months. They are by far the most unprofessional temp. Agency I have ever worked for. And yes they are a temp agency. Connor leaves you hanging waiting for information on jobs as well as all the other reps and when you call in to calm explain waiting two weeks for a job just is unprofessional. But wait they will send your contact information over to all there reps who don't answer a text or call when you reach out to them.

They act like a bunch of children in the office with prospected clients and prospected employees. They are the Pittsburgh cannonsburg elite failures so please people stick it out and keep applying don't make the mistake a way better job will pop up but these guys are not it.
Benn Of Trades
Aug 11, 2019
I applied to work for these guys, on my first day my father ended up in the hospital from a heart attack, so I didn't make in to work. They were kind enough to help me get a harness. How ever my second day for work i informed them I wouldn't be able to make it in as I needed to help my mom square away the farm and get the house ready for my fathers return after the hospital releases him from his bypass surgery.

I hadn't been back at my home for 20 min when they were pounding on the door like the swat team demanding the harness back. I never got the chance to work for them and nor will I ever welcome the opportunity again.
Sonya Jarzynka
Nov 28, 2018
This is Paul M Brownfield, I'm on my fiance's email and I just wanna say, DO NOT GO TO WORK FOR THIS BS COMPANY! I REPEAT DO NOT! I tell u this because they sit and try to feed u a good story about haveing all this work n great wages but in reality they don't have the work they claim. I've quit on them twice because of it. Now I'm sitting waiting on a $550.00 paycheck because the so called professional reps that they are didn't contact the contractor I was working for to verify my time sheet.

When all that needed done was for them to call the contractor and make sure my time was right so here I am waiting on a pay that should have went out as of Wednesday 9-12-18 but it didn't because these ppl can't even do their own jobs let alone give someone else a job. This company is a scam and Im going to look into filing a law suit against them for false advertising and damages because of not being payed on time. Tradesman International is a joke do not work for these ppl I'm giveing far warning you will regret it in the end I promise you.
HungarianHacker
Jul 19, 2017
All the "Good" reviews here are from corporate clowns. Don't trust this company, they make a ton of money off the backs of little guys. They made a billion dollars last year and supposedly hired over 10,000 people. You should ask out of the 52 weeks a year, how long were they actually working. Maybe 20 consecutive weeks. That's being honest. They only care about the bottom line. Filling their pockets.

And setting up ploy's for the gullible small offices. Like get this the one writing your checks in the office only makes 25k a year or the PC making only 35k and the big General mgr making 50k oh but there is incentive 3-5% give me a break. I can go all day. Area VP only makes 100k wow They sell a good dream. And make you and me out to dry. That's all I've got to say. Give me a line and show them how many ppl read this. Thanks
Kathryn Kwiecien
Jul 15, 2017
If you want to work for a company where you will feel valued as an employee from day one, Tradesmen is the place to be. As with any smaller company that is growing rapidly, certain fine-print kinks need to be worked out. However, as long as you are willing to put in the work (field or office employees, respectively), you'll most definitely see reward for what you are doing.
Stephen Taylor
Apr 22, 2017
Pretty decent place to work if you know what you are doing. You need to have your tools, be professional, and be competent. The best jobs are the journeyman-level travel jobs. Usually mid 20s to low 30s in pay and good per diem.
Jim Morrison
Nov 11, 2016
This place is a total hoax. Do Not TRUST these People. I got screwed over royally was going to take a job from Tradesmen Int. only this is there was no job. So after I had quit where I was working they hit me with a bait and switch. Instead of working in LA they were going to send me to San Francisco which I much more expensive and they wanted me to go for less money.

They would fly me but no hotel. This place is a joke. Someone should start a class action lawsuit against them for false advertising. They offer a 1500 sign on bonus you will never see it. When I called and complained they said they would have a district manger call me still no call. CHUMPS
David Benjamin
Nov 04, 2016
Email sent to Tradesmen International & still haven't heard back from them. Ok-I'm confused; you told me that the Kentucky contract was going to last well over a year working 60 hours a week which prompted me to go in savings & get tools, hotel $ etc for the job then you had Chad call me over the weekend (the day before I was leaving for Kentucky) to go to Illinois.

He put me in Illinois on a contract & didn't tell me that not only was there no overtime but it was a 2 week contract after I had already gotten there. Chad told me 10/04/16 that he was setting me up for Kentucky this passed Monday 10/10/16 & then the next day 10/05/16 Chad told me that the Kentucky contract was pushed back for a week, 10/17/16. Almost immediately after I took the safety video.

Now you're telling me that there "We do not have open spots for Kentucky at this point, we will give you a call when we've got positions available." & "We don't have any open positions at this time" meaning Tradesmen International doesn't have any welding jobs. Chad told me the day I left the contract with Juan I was going to be starting in Kentucky on Monday.

The next day he text saying it was pushed back a week, you come back & say I have no jobs so I have to ask; is this in retaliation of the videos & pics that I took there? Why was I deceived into a 2 week NO overtime job & out of a "year long, 60 hour work week welding job." Can you explain to me what I have wrong or what went wrong if this wasn't intended. I know you don't get letters like this & I probably sound like a jerk, but this is exactly what happened. I expected $12,000 by December but got a 2 week crap job instead.