#1 Text to Apply for Trades
TextWork texts every HVAC, plumbing, and field-service applicant the moment they apply, screens for licenses and start dates, and hands your shop a report.
Trusted by teams in the field
145+
Jobsites using TextWork
17,000+
Text messages exchanged
180+
Applicants screened
How Textwork helps trades recruitment
Textwork screens your techs, instantly
The best time to screen an HVAC or plumbing applicant is the minute they apply. Textwork covers nights, weekends, and the hours your shop is on calls.
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Owners and dispatchers love it
Start calling people who can actually start Monday, with license, tools, and experience already confirmed.
Conversational AI for hiring technicians
With Textwork, the shop spends less time chasing applicants — because screening, scheduling, and paperwork happen over SMS.
Four ways TextWork fills trade roles
Respond before the applicant goes cold
Techs apply from a jobsite or the van. A text that arrives immediately gets answered. A voicemail from the office usually does not.
See every conversation at a glance
Track who has a license, who can start this week, and who needs a callback from one dashboard.
No portals or logins required
Techs answer from the phone already in their pocket. No app download, no career-site login.
Do you have your own tools?
To see if it is a fit, please share:
- Your license or cert.
- The earliest you can start.
- Whether you can interview this week.
Qualified tech records
Structured handoffs from a text conversation
We've been using TextWork for 4 months
1. Did more interviews than all of last year
2. Fixed our onboarding
3. Halved our vacant positions
— Service business owner, Akron, OH
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Questions from trades shops
Techs apply from a jobsite, a van, or the couch after a 10-hour day. Email and career portals lose. A text that arrives the minute they apply gets answered.
TextWork starts that conversation immediately, asks your screening questions, and hands your shop a structured report before the next truck leaves.
You define what a qualified tech means for the role: license or cert, years on the tools, own tools or van, service area, earliest start date, and any knockout.
When they reply, TextWork asks follow-up questions one at a time and summarizes the conversation into a scored handoff.
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, restoration, landscaping, pest control, and other field-service shops that hire technicians, helpers, and apprentices.
It also works for owners and dispatchers who do the screening themselves — you do not need a recruiting team.
Every conversation is saved with the transcript, extracted details, and recommended next step. Your office can review the dashboard, get a summary, and call the people who can actually start.
Yes. TextWork is designed to qualify and organize the applicant, not trap them in automation. Once someone is ready, your team has the context to call, schedule, or continue the conversation directly.
About 5 minutes for a simple funnel. You write the questions TextWork should ask, connect Indeed, your website, or a dedicated number, and start testing conversations immediately.
Applicants can come from Indeed, your website, job-board ads, QR codes on the van, inbound texts, or a manual import. The important part is that every new applicant gets an immediate SMS path instead of sitting in voicemail.