Hiring for Fabrication Shops

A careers page at your own address, openings you post yourself, and applications that come directly to you. Not a replacement for the job boards you already use — a channel of your own alongside them.

You Still Need the Boards. You Also Need Somewhere of Your Own.

Job boards are how people who have never heard of your shop find out you are hiring. That is real reach, and nothing here replaces it. Keep posting there.

What a board does not give you is anywhere that is yours. Your opening sits on a page that also shows three competitors hiring the same welder. The applicant's information lives in their system. The relationship is mediated, and it ends when you stop paying.

A careers page of your own is the other half:

• A URL you control — fabwise.app/shop/your-slug/careers, which you can put on a board posting, a sign on the door, a truck, a Facebook post, or hand to someone who asked
• Your shop's branding, not a template with a logo slot
• Applications that arrive directly, as your records, in the system you already work in

Someone who hears about you from a current employee, drives past the shop, or gets pointed at you by a supplier now has somewhere to go. Before, that person had to find a board posting or call and hope.

It Rides on Your Website

Careers shares the URL slug of your shop website — fabwise.app/shop/your-slug/careers. If the website is set up, careers is a toggle.

The two are independent past that point. A shop can run a public careers page without enabling quote requests, or run quote requests with no careers page. Hiring hard and quoting hard are different seasons, and the switches are separate for that reason.

A Posting Takes Two Fields

Only the job title and description are required.

• Job title — what appears at the top of the listing. "Welder (TIG/MIG)", "CNC Machinist — Day Shift", "Apprentice Sheet Metal Mechanic".
• Description — what the job actually is day to day. What they will work on, what equipment they will run, what the shop is like.

Everything else is optional but earns its keep:

• Requirements — experience, certifications, physical requirements, work eligibility
• Employment type — Full Time, Part Time, and so on
• Pay range — minimum and maximum, with pay period
• Trade / role — the trade category, so applicants can filter
• Location — city or shop address

Post the pay range. Listings with one draw significantly more qualified applicants than listings without, because the mismatched candidates screen themselves out before either of you spends time.

Applications Land in a Pipeline, Not an Inbox

Applicants arrive in the Hiring section with their status visible, and you move them through stages as you work them.

The posting list shows each opening with its type, status, and applicant count — so an opening quietly collecting nothing is visible rather than assumed to be working. That is worth more than it sounds when you are running a shop and hiring at the same time: the posting you forgot about is the one you find out about.

Where It Fits

Hiring sits at the front of the same line the rest of FabWise is on. Someone applies, gets hired, goes on the schedule, clocks in at the kiosk, and works jobs that land on real labor data.

The point of owning the front of that line is not speed. It is that the channel belongs to you.