For employers
Hire the people who run the work.
We fill construction roles nationwide, from project engineers to project executives and field leadership. Every search is run by a senior recruiter who learns how you build.
The honest comparison
Why not just post the job yourself?
Sometimes you should. Here is when a recruiter is worth it and when it isn't.
You do the sorting
Post it yourself
A job board reaches the people currently looking. The superintendent you actually want is three months from finishing a job and is not browsing listings. You get volume, then you spend your evenings sorting it.
You're one of forty searches
A big national firm
Large agencies run on recruiter throughput. Your project competes with everything else on someone's desk, and the person who pitched you is rarely the person doing the work.
You only pay when you hire
Northside
A short list of active searches, run by a senior recruiter who learns your projects and your standards. Fewer candidates, each one explained, and nothing owed until your hire starts.
How the money works
Simple terms, agreed up front.
$0
up front
No retainers and no posting fees. Our fee comes due when your new hire starts, not before.
Contingency
how the fee works
A percentage of first-year base salary, set for your specific search and agreed in writing before we begin.
Guaranteed
every placement
Every search carries a replacement guarantee. If the hire doesn't work out within it, we run the search again.
Terms are specific to the search. You’ll have the exact fee and guarantee for your role in writing before we start, and nothing is due until your hire starts.
How a search runs
Four steps, no mystery.
- 1
Tell us about the project
The work, the team, the schedule, and what would make someone succeed on this job specifically. Twenty minutes, and it saves weeks later.
- 2
We map the market
We find the people running comparable work, including the ones who are not looking, and approach them directly about your project.
- 3
A short, explained list
A handful of genuinely interested candidates with honest notes on each. You interview a few people, not forty.
- 4
Offer through start date
References, comp, relocation, and notice timing managed so the start date holds.
We recruit across construction: project management, field supervision, preconstruction and estimating, safety and quality, MEP, civil, VDC, and skilled trades.
Tell us what you’re building
A recruiter will get back to you within one business day.
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