The Home Service Hiring Guide
How to build a drip funnel of applicants so you are never short-staffed again.
Most home service owners hire in a panic, after someone quits. This guide is the system I used to grow my own company of W2 employees from zero, and the same system our clients run today. Seven stages, the scripts I use at each one, and a one-page checklist at the end.
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What is inside
The rules everything else hangs off, starting with: always be hiring.
Where to post, how often, and why the ad is a sales letter with the job description as an afterthought.
Your own application on your own careers page, and the friction that filters for follow-through.
The 15 minute screen, and the scheduling step that doubles as a reliability test.
Selling first, then disqualifying. The exact questions worth asking.
What to check and what to ignore.
How to get references who actually talk, and what to listen for.
The paid working interview, and how to close the offer call.
Running the funnel when you have no opening, so a Thursday quit becomes Friday phone calls.
The whole system on one page.
Who wrote this
I am Patrick Murphy, founder of Qualified Hires. Ten years in corporate America, five years running a home service company of my own. Everything in this guide came from hiring my own crews first, and it is the same method Qualified Hires runs for clients every week.
One email with the PDF download link.