Resume screening for Skilled Trades
Resume Screening for Skilled Trades Hiring
Trades hiring is about licences, certifications and hands-on skills, and trade resumes are rarely keyword-optimised. ResumeMatch extracts the licences, safety requirements and technical skills from your job description and shows which each candidate evidences.
Typical roles: Electrician, Plumber, HVAC technician, Welder.
Journeyman and master licences, OSHA 10 and 30, EPA 608 and similar credentials are matched as explicit requirements. Skills such as troubleshooting or blueprint reading can be matched from how the work is described.
What ResumeMatch looks for in skilled trades roles
A sample of the requirements it recognises in a job description and checks for in each resume.
Certifications and licences
Skills
Tools
Safety
Example job description
Licensed Electrician needed for residential wiring, panel upgrades and code compliance inspections. Journeyman license and OSHA 30 required. Experience with troubleshooting, blueprint reading and lockout tagout.
Paste this, or your own, into the free demo and you will see the requirements it extracts and, with a resume attached, which are matched, missing or implied. No signup needed.
Questions
Does it check that a licence is valid?
No. It reads what the resume says. Always verify licences with the issuing authority before hiring.
Will it work on short, plain resumes?
Yes, but a very short resume gives it little to match against, so missing items deserve a second look.
ResumeMatch is a prioritisation aid, not an automatic hiring decision. Review the underlying resume and apply consistent human review.