While a tech seat sits empty, your crew runs overtime and some jobs go to another company. Many of the techs you'd want already have a job and seldom browse job boards, so we run hiring ads in your own Meta ad account that reach them on Facebook and Instagram. We screen every applicant with your questions and book the qualified ones on your interview calendar.
Qualified applicants on your interview calendar within 14 days of the ads going live, or your setup fee back.
Qualified means an applicant passed the screening questions we write with you from your requirements and booked an interview slot.
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Many of the techs you'd want already have a job. They seldom browse job boards, so a posting mostly reaches the people who are looking right now, and the seat can stay open for weeks.
The usual next step is a contingency recruiter. Contingency recruiters charge 15% to 25% of a tech's first-year salary, according to SourceLine, a trades recruiting firm. For a tech earning $61,000, close to the $61,010 median pay the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports for HVAC mechanics and installers (May 2025), that's about $9,000 to $15,000 per hire.
The Tech Hiring Sprint is HVAC recruiting built around the techs who already have a job. Local ads reach them on Facebook and Instagram while they scroll, and every applicant is screened by text so the good ones reach your calendar fast. You run the interviews and make every hiring decision.
On the onboarding call we ask what the job pays, the schedule, the truck and tools, and why techs stay with you. We write the ad, add the pay range where your state requires it, and send it to you to approve. On the same call we write your screening questions together, built from your requirements: license, years of experience, drive time and pay expectations.
We run the ad on Facebook and Instagram from your own Meta ad account, under Meta's employment ad rules, and post it to the job boards. The Facebook and Instagram ads reach working techs while they scroll, and the job boards reach the ones who are looking now.
Every applicant who opts in on the application gets a text right away with your screening questions. You approve the questions before anything goes live.
Applicants who pass your screening pick an interview time on your calendar, and you get their answers by text before they arrive. Then you run the interview and make the call.
Ads go live within 3 business days of the onboarding call, and the 14-day clock starts when they do.
Your company · hiringTue 4:12 PM
Thanks for applying to the HVAC service tech job. Three quick questions. Do you hold an EPA 608 certification?
Yes, universal. 6 years in residential service.
How far are you from our shop in Plano, and what pay range are you looking for?
About 20 minutes. Looking for $32 to $36 an hour.
You're a match. Pick an interview time here and the owner will have your answers before you arrive.
Sample screening conversation with a fictional applicant.
Every week you get four numbers:
When a number stalls, we change the ad, the area or the questions, and we tell you what we changed.
Week 2 · Sprint numbers Example
If qualified applicants aren't on your interview calendar within 14 days of your ads going live, we refund your setup fee.
Applicants answer screening questions built from your requirements (license, years of experience, drive time, pay expectations) that we write together on the onboarding call.
An applicant who passes them and books an interview slot counts.
You work with Ben Desjardins directly. He has spent 20+ years growing local businesses, has founded and exited three companies, and takes every call himself. The sprint runs on GoHighLevel, the platform we use for applicant pipelines, texting and calendars.
Our Google work for Precision Patch Pros, a drywall repair company serving Bakersfield and Southern California, brought them 26 leads and $11,030 in Google-sourced sales in March 2026. The Tech Hiring Sprint is new, and we'll share its first results once a sprint finishes and the client approves.
Read the Precision Patch Pros case studyMarginPlug's 2026 benchmark puts a residential service tech at roughly $180,000 to $325,000 in revenue a year. Spread over about 250 workdays, that's roughly $700 to $1,300 a workday.
HireAligned, a hiring vendor, reports that skilled-trades roles take around 56 days to fill, citing Randstad USA's analysis of U.S. job postings. That's about 8 weeks, or 40 workdays. At $700 to $1,300 a workday, that comes to roughly $28,000 to $52,000 of work one more tech could have run.
Some of that work your crew covers with overtime, some gets pushed to next week, and some goes to a company that can come out today.
You pay a setup fee, a monthly fee while you're hiring, and the ad spend, which goes straight to Meta and the job boards. There's no fee per hire, so if the sprint turns up two good techs, you can hire both.
The monthly fee is month to month: cancel anytime by email, and the cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing month, with no cancellation fee.
On the 10-minute call, Ben will tell you where you land in each range.
Yes. Meta and the job boards bill the ad spend to you directly, and the Meta ads run in your own ad account. We set the budget with you on the call for your market, we never mark it up, and our fees are separate.
Yes. Inside a monthly plan, the recruitment ads launch uses 1 sprint, and Growth and Momentum keep the ads optimized after that. Plans run 1, 3 or 6 sprints a month, and you pick your sprints from our sprint menu.
Field roles first: service techs, install techs, plumbers, electricians, helpers and apprentices in HVAC, plumbing and other trades. Office roles, like a dispatcher or a CSR, are handled case by case. Ask Ben on the call.
Keep Indeed running, because it reaches techs who are looking right now. The sprint adds local ads on Facebook and Instagram for techs who aren't browsing job boards, and it texts and screens every applicant so the good ones reach your calendar fast. We can look at sending your Indeed applicants through the same screening on the call.
Yes, within Meta's rules for employment ads. You can target a city or a radius of at least 15 miles, and ZIP codes, age and gender are off limits. That way everyone in the area can see the job, which is what fair-hiring laws expect.
Our promise is qualified applicants on your interview calendar within 14 days of the ads going live, or your setup fee back. Ads go live within 3 business days of the 20-minute onboarding call.
You do. The ads run in your own Meta ad account, and every applicant, screened or not, stays in your pipeline after the sprint ends.
The numbers point that way. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects about 40,600 openings a year for HVAC mechanics and installers and 11% job growth from 2025 to 2035. In ServiceTitan's 2026 Residential State of the Trades Report (1,000 contractors), 60% named labor and overhead as the biggest risks to their business.
Send us the role and how long it's been posted. Ben will call you back, and 10 minutes is enough to tell you whether a sprint fits and what it would cost. Send it before noon Eastern on a business day and Ben calls you back the same day. After noon, he calls the next business day.
Ben and his team are honest, knowledgeable, and always quick to respond whenever we need assistance.
Want to know how to hire HVAC technicians on your own? Read our guide to recruiting HVAC technicians
Also holding you back: customers who buy once and disappear | after-hours calls going to voicemail
Sources: SourceLine, "Flat fee vs contingency recruiting" | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, HVACR mechanics and installers | MarginPlug, "HVAC revenue per technician benchmark (2026)" | HireAligned, "HVAC technician shortage statistics", citing Randstad USA | ServiceTitan 2026 Residential State of the Trades Report | Meta Business Help Center, Special Ad Categories. The weekly numbers and the screening conversation on this page are examples, not a client's numbers.