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Find skilled workers who can actually do the work

The practical problem is never "we need more applications". It is "we need people who can actually do this work, in this region, in this window". Poachd is built for that question: search demonstrated capability directly rather than filtering CVs for keywords.

Find technical people How Poachd works

Free for tradespeople, permanently. Companies pay for access and on a confirmed placement.

How to run a capability search

  • Describe the capability, not the vacancy: the systems, the licences, the scale and the assurance regime the work runs under.
  • Set the geography honestly, including whether you can support travel, camp accommodation or relocation. Mobility is often the real constraint.
  • Set the window. Availability is the perishable part of capability, and it decides who can actually take the work.
  • Read the free limited previews to size the pool before you commit to a programme date.
  • Unlock the Passports worth pursuing, then approach those people directly.

Why CV filtering keeps missing the right people

  • A CV records employment, not competence. It tells you who paid someone, not what they were trusted to do.
  • Keyword filtering rewards good CV writing, which has no relationship to being good on the tools.
  • The adjacent-industry capability you most want - utilities, mining, rail, fabs - gets filtered out by screening for your own sector's words.
  • Availability and mobility are missing from every resume, and they are the two things most likely to rule someone out.

Capability categories you can search

Each page explains what the capability covers and what companies typically screen for.
  • Electricians - Licensed electrical workers installing, terminating, testing and energising power systems on critical infrastructure projects.
  • Electrical supervisors - Leading hands, site supervisors and electrical leads who run crews, sequence electrical work and carry the quality and safety load on site.
  • Instrumentation and controls - Technicians who install, terminate, calibrate and prove the control and monitoring systems that make plant behave predictably.
  • HVAC and mechanical - Mechanical trades installing, connecting and commissioning the air and water systems that keep critical plant within temperature.
  • Refrigeration - Licensed refrigeration trades working on chillers, heat rejection and refrigerant systems that critical facilities depend on.
  • Fitters - Mechanical fitters who install, align, maintain and repair rotating and static plant to tolerance.
  • Boilermakers and welders - Fabrication and welding trades producing and repairing structural and pressure work to a qualified procedure.
  • Technicians and commissioning - Test, commissioning and specialist technicians who prove that installed systems perform the way the design says they will.

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