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How Does AI Phone Screening Work for Skilled Trades?
Start screening candidates in under a day. Configure your interview scripts, and Joy handles the rest. Review call summaries and move forward with candidates who are qualified and ready to work.
Set Your Requirements & Post the Job
Tell Joy your dealbreakers and key questions. We post your job to Indeed and other major boards automatically. No ads to manage, no budget guesswork.
Joy Calls Every Applicant Immediately
Someone applies at 11 PM? Joy texts and calls them immediately. She conducts the full phone screen right then and there -- asks your questions, checks their experience, and completes the interview while they're still interested. Works 24/7 in 25+ languages.
Review Qualified Candidates Ready to Work
You get a summary of every completed interview in your inbox. Experience verified. Dealbreakers already checked. You decide who moves forward, but in 10x less time because the screening's already done.
How Sears Home Services Scaled Skilled Trades Recruiting
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“We Can Now Scale in Ways We Couldn’t Scale Before.”
Sears Home Services hires 30 technicians every week across appliance and HVAC roles nationwide. Technicians can’t take recruiter calls while they’re in customer homes. Written assessments had 50% completion. Joy changed everything.
“For us, we can now scale in ways that we couldn’t scale before. We can now grow in ways we didn’t think we could grow previously. We currently have 15 recruiters on staff. We’ve had upwards of 25.”
Leslie Ellis
Talent Acquisition Manager, Sears Home Services
24/7 Availability
Candidates interview on their schedule -- Sunday morning in pajamas or after a late shift
30 Hires/Week
Maintained hiring volume with zero added headcount -- Joy handles the screening workload
70%+ Completion
Up from 50% with written assessments. Voice removes the typing barrier
Ready-to-Work Candidates
Every candidate the team spoke to was pre-screened and engaged -- cutting time-to-hire dramatically
The Sears Transformation
Sears Home Services needed to hire 30 technicians weekly across appliance and HVAC roles. Technicians work in customer homes all day and can't take recruiter calls during business hours. Written assessments had only ~50% completion rates. And 30-45 minute phone screens consumed recruiter bandwidth on candidates who often weren't qualified.
“That can be a tough place for hiring because it can be harder to reach those candidates. We also don't know when they're working certain hours.”
The verbal component was the breakthrough. Technicians who struggled with written assessments -- worrying about punctuation, spelling, formatting -- could simply explain their experience in their own words. Joy captured skills that resumes never mentioned: years of side work for friends and family, certifications earned on the job, hands-on experience that doesn't translate to bullet points.
“The candidates can just explain in their own words. They don't feel like they have to worry about punctuation or spelling or anything like that.”
Joy didn't replace recruiter conversations -- she made them better. When a recruiter calls a candidate who's already been screened by Joy, they arrive with detailed notes on experience level, availability, salary expectations, and motivations. Green candidates get different questions than veterans. No time wasted on basics.
“If a candidate is super green, but we want to bring them in and train them up, we know to start our questions there instead of having to go through a litany of questions.”
In skilled trades, the best candidates often have the worst resumes. They've been fixing things since they were teenagers, picked up certifications along the way, and never learned to format a Word document. Joy's conversational screening surfaces this hidden talent that traditional processes miss entirely.
“We all know resumes, particularly in blue-collar, often don't tell the full story. The screening calls with Joy tell us that they know so much more and that they've been doing a lot of handyman work on the side for friends and family.”
For Sears, a technology-driven company, Joy became an extension of their brand. Candidates experienced their innovative culture from the very first interaction. The AI interview wasn't a hurdle -- it was a signal that Sears operates differently.
“Joy is accessible for everybody, and is able to interact in such a human way that takes AI to a whole other level. It gave our candidates a great experience of what Sears is gonna be like, because we as a company are very AI-driven.”
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What Does AI Phone Screening Cost for Skilled Trades?
Self-serve, pay as you go. No annual commitment, no recruiter fees.
Flex
Self-serve, pay as you go
- AI phone screening for every applicant
- Sourced candidates from major job boards
- Custom interview scripts per role
- Interview recordings and summaries
- Unlimited seats, no contracts
Includes 50 interviews per job per month. Additional interviews at $4.00 each.
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"But Will It Work for My Trades Business?"
Joy doesn't replace your judgment on technical ability. She screens for the basics that eat your time: availability, certifications (EPA, CDL, OSHA, journeyman status), years of experience, salary expectations, and willingness to travel. You still decide who's worth a face-to-face. Joy just makes sure you're not wasting that meeting on someone who can't start for six weeks.
That's exactly why Joy uses a phone call, not an app. No download. No login. No account creation. The candidate's phone rings, they answer, and they have a conversation. Many candidates forget they're talking to AI. One applicant told Joy: "This is a robotic call? I don't believe you, you sound real."
You still do. Joy handles the first phone call so you can focus on the pool of qualified candidates ready to work. Instead of calling 30 applicants and reaching 8, you review Joy's summaries and call the 4 who are actually qualified. You talk to better candidates, sooner.
Candidates prefer getting a call immediately over waiting three days for a recruiter who may never call back. Sears saw completion rates jump from 50% to 70%+ when they switched from written assessments to Joy's phone interviews. Candidates appreciate the flexibility of interviewing on their schedule, not yours.
Most trades employers are live within a day. We set up your job posting, customize the screening questions for your specific role requirements, and start routing qualified candidates to your team. No IT department required, no multi-month implementation. The Flex plan is self-serve and pay-as-you-go.
Classet is an AI recruiting layer that engages applicants, conducts consistent voice interviews, and integrates results into your system of record. It plugs into your current workflow, so you reach candidates faster and move more qualified candidates to the next steps. The end result is a recruiting copilot for your team that moves candidates through your system with 100% accuracy and delivers huge incremental gains in your hiring funnel conversion rates.
Joy, the AI recruiter, handles repetitive top-of-funnel work and produces structured summaries, so hiring teams can focus on the right candidates (i.e., qualified and with demonstrated intent to work for the role by completing an interview) rather than chasing responses. Teams that adopt Classet report immediate relief from manual tasks, increased recruiter bandwidth, improved candidate experience, and significant reductions in time-to-fill.
Scripts use deterministic qualifying questions, tailored openers, and follow-ups. Summaries are configured to highlight exactly what managers need, so most reviews can happen without replaying calls. The AI agent also has detailed insight into your company and the specific job requirements, so candidates can converse and ask questions as they would with a human recruiter, providing a tangibly better candidate experience when combined with the AI agent's 24/7 availability.
Classet can run live Q&A using your job and company FAQs, so candidates get fast, accurate answers during interviews. You can load job-specific and company-wide FAQs that Joy, our AI recruiter, can use in real time.
Yes. Classet can respect opt-outs at any time without affecting eligibility. Opt-outs are routed to a designated ATS stage for human follow-up.
The system clearly discloses that an AI assistant is engaging the candidate in text, email, and phone interactions.
Yes. Classet can send a customized message with your scheduling link immediately after interviews. You can shorten URLs to fit SMS limits.
Yes. Joy operates 24/7 when candidates are available, helping recover hours that typical teams miss and improving conversion from applicant to interview.
Classet is designed to meet or exceed current AEDT standards such as NYC Local Law 144, and is continuously monitored through independent third-party bias audits for disparate impact.
Classet uses accepted proxy methods such as BISG and geocoding for aggregate fairness auditing only, never for individual decisions, a practice regulators recognize as valid for monitoring.
Why Is Hiring Electricians, Plumbers, and HVAC Techs So Hard?
Construction needs 439,000 workers this year. Hiring season opens in weeks. The bottleneck isn't applicants -- it's screening them fast enough. See how light industrial and manufacturing teams solve this.
Can't find skilled workers
78% of applicants ghost employers. Your top candidate applied Monday. You called Thursday. They took another offer.
Source: ABC / Indeed
Cost per empty position
Jobs sit open 27-39 days on average. That's $7K-$10K per month in lost work. Projects slip. Crews burn out.
Source: AGC / SHRM
Workers needed in 2026
Hiring window opens in weeks. Most owners handle recruiting between running jobs. You need speed, not more job boards.
Source: ABC Workforce Report
Why Do AI Phone Calls Work Better Than Video for Trades Hiring?
The moment someone applies, Joy reaches out by text, email, and phone. Candidates engage with the channel that works for them -- from their truck, their couch, or between jobs. No video calls. No special setup. Joy integrates with your existing ATS.
Joy -- Text, Email, and Phone
- Text, email, and phone -- immediately when they apply
- No app download, no video call, no wifi required
- Candidates complete it with the phone they already have
- Multilingual (25+ languages)
- Available 24/7 -- nights, weekends, holidays
- Completion rates 20%+ higher than written assessments
Video / Chatbots / Written Assessments
- Video interviews require wifi, a quiet room, and equipment
- Written assessments need typing -- low completion for trades
- Chatbots get buried in notification noise
- Manual phone screens take days to schedule
- One-channel tools miss candidates who prefer a different medium
“We had candidates who were delighted they could do it on Sunday morning at 8:00 AM in their pajamas. Our completion rate went from around 50% to sitting around 70%.”
How Teams Cut Drop-Off, Ghosting, and Time-to-Hire.
10x
Faster Hiring Speed Without Hiring a Recruiter
"The Classet tech completely replaces a recruiter or office admin — and doubles our hiring efficiency."
60%
Recruiting Time Recovered Per Week
"Classet returned at least 60% of my week. Before, I was spending nights and weekends screening candidates"
436 Hours
Recruiting Hours Saved Across our Teams in 2 months
"We've reduced candidate screening time from one day to just one hour on average."
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