Construction crew on an active job site
Industries / Construction

Build the crew before you win the bid.

Every contractor is bidding on the same tradespeople. The ones who keep winning work are the ones people line up to work for.

The hiring reality in
construction.

Canada and the U.S. both need to build more than ever, with a workforce that is getting older every year.

349,000

net new workers U.S. construction needs to attract in 2026 alone

Associated Builders and Contractors
456,000

more needed in 2027 as U.S. construction spending picks back up

Associated Builders and Contractors
135,000

Canadian residential construction workers are expected to retire by 2035

BuildForce Canada, 2026
The real challenges

What makes hiring here so hard.

01

Demand comes in waves

Crews ramp up and down with every contract. You need people fast, and you need them to come back next time.

02

The best trades never apply

Good journeypersons move on referrals and reputation. If yours isn’t known, you never hear from them.

03

Apprentices don’t stay

Too many starters leave before they finish. The ones who stay are the ones who can see a future with the company.

04

Your reputation is built on site

Candidates judge you by what they hear from the job site. If you are not telling your story, someone else is.

The usual playbook

Why the usual fixes stall.

Job boards and hiring halls

They fill spots on the crew. They don’t build loyalty.

Poaching on rate

The crew you buy is the crew someone else buys back next season.

Word of mouth alone

Powerful, but slow, and impossible to scale when a big project lands.

A different starting point

We make your company the one tradespeople talk about.

Reputation travels fast on a job site. We make sure yours is the one worth repeating: the projects, the crews, the way you run a site. We build a world around your company that tradespeople want in on, so the next ramp-up starts with people who already want to work for you.

The name on every site

Your reputation reaches tradespeople before your recruiter does.

Pride you can see

The projects and crews that make people want to join, shown honestly.

Ready for the next ramp-up

Interest that is already there when the contract is signed.

Real results

2,000 tradespeople raised their hand.

A national industrial construction contractor needed crews across multiple Western Canadian markets. Instead of chasing tradespeople, we gave them a reason to come forward.

2,000+

candidates who chose this employer before a recruiter ever picked up the phone

90 days

is all it took. Each campaign flight ran about three months.

Again

and again. They kept running it, flight after flight, because it kept working.

Roles we help
you fill.

From entry-level to leadership, the same approach works at every level of the team.

  • Carpenters
  • Electricians
  • Plumbers and pipefitters
  • Heavy equipment operators
  • Labourers
  • Apprentices
  • Site superintendents
  • Project managers
  • Estimators
  • Safety coordinators
Let’s make progress

Your next great hire starts before the job posting.

Talk to Magnyt