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Hiring & retention software to grow your crew

Find construction workers and restoration professionals you can trust with software that helps you hire and retain the right team.

We Know Your Business

Find reliable construction & restoration professionals

We know how challenging it can be to hire and retain construction workers. With labor shortages, seasonal staffing struggles, and regulatory challenges, it can be tough to staff every project and stay within schedule.

We can help you hire and retain the right employees and contractors to meet all your requirements and grow your business.

Stand out to candidates with a custom Careers page

Show what makes your business different with a page that attracts quality applicants.

Fun fact: Candidates applying from company pages are 4x more likely to become hires than those who come from job boards.

Helping construction companies build winning teams

Skilled tradespeople and compliant contractors are hard to find. ToolBelt is the #1 job platform with a network of 100,000+ licensed, insured, and verified professionals — and the only platform built specifically for licensed pros in residential construction looking for work. With the CareerPlug x ToolBelt integration, you can post unlimited jobs to ToolBelt for one low monthly fee.

Ready to hire & retain the right candidates?

Find out how we can help your business grow.

Frequently asked questions about construction and restoration hiring software

Is CareerPlug actually built for franchise construction and restoration brands?

Yes. For more than 10 years we've partnered with franchise brands specifically — 400+ of them across service industries, including restoration and home services, plus multi-unit operators with the same franchise-shaped hiring needs. The product was built from day one around the franchisor-franchisee split: franchisees need their own accounts and local control; brands need system-wide visibility and the ability to coach without creating joint-employer risk. That dual design is why we show up on this page and not on generic "small business" pages.

Emergency ramps are where the system earns its keep. The franchisees who handle storm-response well have three things in place before the storm: a branded careers page that's already collecting applications, a pre-qualified candidate pool of past applicants and referrals they can re-engage fast, and Autopilot scheduling so they're not losing a day to phone tag when a good tech applies. It's less about hiring faster during the storm and more about having done the work upstream — which is exactly what our onboarding team helps franchisees set up.

Safety acknowledgements, state licensure proof, and OSHA 10/30 verification all live inside the 90-day onboarding workflow. Required documents trigger before a new hire is scheduled on a crew, and expiration tracking runs in the background so renewals don't fall through. None of this replaces the brand's own compliance program — it just makes sure every franchisee in the system follows it the same way, which is the part most brands can't enforce with spreadsheets.

Honestly? That's exactly the problem most brands come to us with. Franchisees are handling their own hiring — some well, most unevenly — and the brand has no visibility into which locations are struggling until a franchisee churns or a location underperforms. CareerPlug keeps franchisees in control of their own hiring (their accounts, their decisions, their candidates) while giving the brand a PartnerHub view across the system. The franchisees keep what's working. The brand stops flying blind.

Enough to coach, not enough to cross the line. Each franchisee owns their own account — their own applicants, their own hires, their own employment relationship. Franchisors see aggregated data across the system — time-to-hire by location, applicant volume, source-of-hire mix — without touching individual hiring decisions. Every franchisee getting their own account isn't an accident. We built it this way on purpose, and it's the right structure under current joint-employer guidance.