Recruiting for Construction, Manufacturing & Engineering Companies
More job ads.Same open roles.
The people you want to hire are leaking out of your process at every stage. Your team runs hiring on the side. Fixing that is our whole job.
Hundreds of hires in 5 years$0 on sponsored job ads97% of offers signed
Alex McFarlandFounder, Persevus
Bring a ballpark of your job-board spend. Leave with a one-page map of where it leaks.
You had the candidates.
Every month you pay for reach. Watch where the people it brings you go.
The candidates were there. Your process lost them.
The Job Board
Recurring · billed monthly
Sample invoice
- Sponsored job post$499
- Promoted listing boost$250
- Featured placement$300
Same as last month. And the month before.
You know what an open seat costs you per day. Put that number next to this invoice.
Here's how we seal them.
Your search runs in the background.
Hiring is nobody's whole job at your company.
Your office manager runs it between payroll and safety renewals. Your PM screens resumes at nine at night. A side job carried on top of a real one.
We rebuilt hiring from job ad to signed offer. Every step has a standard. Every handoff has a checkpoint. Every move has a receipt. Good recruiting software is everywhere now; anyone can buy it. What you're paying for is the people who hold every step to the standard, on every search, and leave a receipt at each one.
Before you meet any candidate, they answer why they're actually on the market.No real answer, no introduction.
We can hold that line because of how you pay us: a flat monthly fee, not a cut of anyone's salary. On your search, nothing pays us to keep a weak candidate alive, so we cut them early. On one recent search we sourced 706 people; 3 reached an interview. That rule is why 97% of our offers get signed.
706 to 3
Sourced to interviewed, one recent search
“When I talk to them, it's typically someone we do want to move forward. That saves a lot of time.”
One recruiter owns your search start to finish. You meet them by name on the diagnosis call, before anything is signed. Hannah Otte holds every search to the standard: every screen, every debrief, every reference call, in FUSE where you can watch. When someone in your pipeline goes quiet or circles back, the system flags it and your recruiter picks up the phone. Managing the recruiter is our job, so the only work that reaches you is picking the person and onboarding them.
About six hours of your time, total.
One good year can be luck. This standard has held for five, without a dollar of sponsored job ads.
Hundreds of hires. Zero dollars in sponsored job ads. Five years.
97%
Offers accepted
Industry average: 70–84% (Ashby Talent Trends Report)
29
Avg days to offer
6 hrs
Of your time, total
Measured across all placements, 2022 through 2026
“More candidates for supervisors than we've received for any post in 10 years. I don't know how you do it.”
Trusted by 12 companies across construction, manufacturing & engineering
Results
Lueder · Director of Preconstruction
“23 Days From Kickoff To Offer Accepted. I Didn’t Have To Babysit Any Of It”
Lueder needed a Director of Preconstruction, a leadership hire that would sit on their executive team. After months of DIY recruiting and endless emails from recruiters promising candidates if they’d just sign an agreement, they engaged Persevus. 23 days later, the role was filled.
3
Qualified Candidates
23
Days To Offer Accepted
6h
Client Time Spent
SecurAlarm · Senior NICET Technicians
“The Candidates We Needed Didn’t Exist In Our Market. So We Changed The Search.”
SecurAlarm had been posting for senior NICET certified technicians in Grand Rapids for months, but the candidates weren’t coming. When Persevus showed them the data, the picture was clear: there simply weren’t enough Level 3–4 techs in the area. SecurAlarm made the call to expand their radius and open up to candidates qualified to sit for certification.
4
Technicians Hired
3
Markets Searched
2
Already NICET Certified
SecurAlarm · Applications Engineers
“We Were Finalists For A Major Contract. We Just Needed Local Support To Close It.”
SecurAlarm was in the final stages of landing a municipal contract that would open up an entirely new market. The contract required local technical support, and they didn’t have it yet. Instead of scrambling internally, they brought in Persevus to find Applications Engineers who could meet the technical requirements and represent them well on-site.
28
Days To First Hire
2
Applications Engineers Hired
1
New Market Opened
Here's how it starts.
Book 30 minutes with Alex.
A ballpark number on your job-board spend is enough. No prep, no pitch deck, no commitment.
We find where it leaks.
We walk through your process from job ad to signed offer and show you exactly where candidates are dropping out, and why.
You choose the path.
You leave with a clear picture of what's broken and what it takes to fix it. Right fit or not, you walk away with the diagnosis.
No contracts.
We don't lock you in. The system works, so we don't need a contract to prove it.
Flat fees, not a percentage of salary.
You pay the same rate no matter who takes the job. Nothing pays us more to place someone expensive.
30-day money-back guarantee.
If you're not seeing the difference in the first 30 days, you get a full refund. No questions. No hoops.
Free. 30 minutes. No commitment.
Questions we hear
Straight answers to what you're actually thinking.
We use job boards as one tool, not the whole strategy. We've made hundreds of placements without a dollar of sponsored spend, because the system does what a post can't: find the right people, screen for whether they'll actually move, and show you every step.
No. We work with growing companies hiring sellers, field leaders, and technical operators, across construction, manufacturing, services, security, and technical operations. If the role is about character and skill more than a credential, it's in our lane.
A flat monthly fee, not a percentage of anyone's salary. Subscriptions start at $2,500 a month, and exact scope gets priced on the 30-minute call once we know what you're hiring for. Select engagements still run on contingency; we'll tell you straight which one fits your search.
Before you ever meet a candidate, they answer why they're actually on the market. No real answer, no introduction. FUSE shows you who we contacted, who responded, and why each candidate made the cut, in real time. And if you're not seeing a difference in the first 30 days, you get a full refund.
About 30 minutes for the first call, then about six hours total across the search. You review vetted candidates, run final interviews, and make the decision. We handle the rest.
It's measured across every offer we extended from 2022 through 2026, the same set behind the numbers above. The refusal screen does most of the work: candidates who can't give a real reason they're on the market never reach an interview, so the offers we extend go to people who already had a reason to say yes.
Find where your hiring leaks. 30 minutes.
One conversation. Bring your last 12 months of job-board spend, and we'll show you whether it's solving the problem or feeding it.
Another quarter of sponsored posts. The role's still open, and the only advice you're getting is to spend more.
Hiring runs in the background.
A system you can see into, candidates ready to say yes, and roles that actually get filled.
Free. No obligation. Leave with a one-page map of where it leaks.
Not ready to talk? Send your job-board spend and get a written leak read back.
Alex McFarland
Founder & President, Persevus