Tickets, transport, start date — screened before you pick up the phone
Labour-hire screening is a checklist with a human attached: white card, trade ticket, transport, availability, attitude. Getting that checklist filled by phone means days of missed calls and voicemail for information a candidate could give you in three minutes flat.
RecruitScreen collects it in one link. Candidates run through your checklist on video the night they apply — showing tickets to the camera where useful — and your consultants review a stack of complete, comparable answers instead of chasing half of them by phone. The phone call still happens; it just happens only with the ones worth calling.
Why trades & labour hire screening breaks down
The checklist never comes back complete
CVs miss tickets, licences and transport — the exact fields that gate placement.
Consultants chase instead of place
Hours of phone tag per role is time not spent on clients.
Attitude is the differentiator
Clients send crews back over attitude, not skills. You need a read on it early.
Example screening questions for trades & labour hire
Copy these into your first campaign, or save your own set to the question library. Short time limits keep answers sharp and completion high.
- 1. Which tickets and licences do you hold? Hold them up to the camera if you have them handy. 45s
- 2. Do you have your own transport and tools? 30s
- 3. Walk us through your last two site roles — what were you doing and why did they end? 90s
- 4. A supervisor asks you to do something you think is unsafe. What do you do? 60s
- 5. When can you start? 15s
Factual, gate-style questions with short time limits make async screening faster than a call sheet — and the safety-scenario answer gives consultants the attitude signal clients actually care about.
More on this: How to replace the phone screen without losing the human read
Common questions
Can we reuse the same question set across roles? +
Yes — save your checklist to the question library and spin up a campaign per client role in minutes.
Do candidates in trades actually complete video screens? +
Keep it under five questions with a plain intro from your consultant and completion holds up well — candidates prefer three minutes on their phone to three days of missed calls, too.
Can clients see the shortlist? +
You can invite client reviewers into a campaign with limited access, or export your shortlist when it’s ready.
Comparing platforms? See phone screening vs video screening or why Australian data residency matters.
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