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How we vet every listicle
Every agency featured on Web Tonic passes our 84-point editorial review before a single listicle goes live. This is how we vet each pick:
Verified client outcomes: We require real case studies with measurable KPIs — revenue, ROAS, CPA, retention — tied to the exact category being ranked. No cherry-picked wins, no unverifiable numbers.
Independent reputation: We cross-check Clutch, Google, G2, and Trustpilot ratings, and screen for review-bombing or suspicious patterns. Only operators with a consistent, verifiable track record make the cut.
Beyond that, every listing goes through a quarterly re-audit. We check 84 criteria across 6 pillars to make sure it still holds up — here are some of the checks we run:
A roofing recruitment marketing agency is hired to put installers, foremen, estimators and sales staff into a contractor's hiring pipeline, which is a different job from selling roofs. Scope covers job-ad campaigns on Meta, Google and programmatic job networks, careers pages and mobile apply flows built for someone standing on a jobsite, employer brand and pay-transparency messaging, recruitment video and photography, applicant tracking integration, and reporting against cost per applicant and cost per hire.
We compared 21 agencies on evidenced trades hiring work, named clients, published pricing and hire-level reporting. Fourteen of the 20 external firms name a client and two publish a rate.
Which roofing recruitment marketing agency should you shortlist?
Match the firm to your gap. Main Street Recruitment, Bold Entity and Vocation Media buy applicant volume; FieldWrk, DZ and Associates and Thompson and Co build the employer brand; Hero Creative, Watts Media and Blue Collar Creative shoot the recruitment film.
1. Main Street Recruitment
About: Main Street Recruitment is a recruitment-marketing agency headquartered in Chardon, Ohio that runs paid search, social job ads and employer-branding campaigns exclusively for blue-collar and skilled-trade employers, evidenced by dedicated construction and manufacturing recruitment service pages and a published case study describing a jump from zero to 75 filled skilled positions. Its fixed monthly fee model, disclosed on its own FAQ page, is built around hiring volume rather than agency-standard retainers. Fit for roofing crews and installers is direct, since trades and construction are named client verticals.
Key Services: Paid social recruitment advertising, Paid search recruitment advertising, Employer brand and EVP messaging, Careers page and landing page builds, Recruitment marketing strategy audits, Cost-per-applicant reporting
Industries Served: Construction, Manufacturing, Skilled trades, Blue-collar services, Logistics
Notable Clients: Not publicly named — case studies are anonymised by category
Locations: Chardon, United States
Pricing: From USD $2,500/month
Great For: Skilled trades contractors, Manufacturers, Blue-collar multi-location employers
Website: Main Street Recruitment
2. Web Tonic
About: Web Tonic treats a roofing labour shortage as a funnel with a cost attached, agreeing what a qualified applicant is and wiring the apply flow into the contractor's hiring process before a single job ad runs. The same team buys the paid social and paid search, ships careers pages through our web development practice and reports cost per applicant and cost per hire through analytics implementation. Contractors wanting a partner who spends every week inside trade schools, union halls and apprenticeship programmes will find several trades-only shops below closer to that world.
Key Services: Growth Marketing, Paid Social, PPC, Meta Ads, SEO, Google Ads, Snapchat Ads, Amazon Ads, Reddit Ads, TikTok Ads, TikTok Shop, GEO-AEO, Webflow Design, Shopify Design, WordPress Design, UGC, Social Media Management, Pay Per Click Management, Marketing Analytics, Analytics Implementation & CDPs, Performance Branding, Performance 360° Audit, Programmatic Ads, OOH Ads, HR Marketing
Industries Served: eCommerce, SaaS, B2B, Construction Professionals, Home Services, SMEs, Health Spa & Wellness, Retail, Legal & Judicial Services, Food & Beverages, Pets, Fitness, Family & Children, Finance & Insurance, Travel, Non-Profits & Organizations, Furniture & Decoration
Notable Clients: WorldRemit, Jack & Jones, Ardene, L'Oréal, Sendwave, Nestlé, Airbnb. Serve Fortune 500 companies and smaller fast-paced startups.
Locations: HQ in San Francisco with notable offices in New York, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, Montreal, Dubai, Singapore, Sydney and more. Offices on five continents.
Pricing: Starting at USD $3,000 per month. Flexible and scalable plans at any time according to your enterprise needs. Book a call to learn more.
Great For: Mid-market to enterprise-level businesses requiring ongoing, on-tap growth and performance marketing services.
Website: Web Tonic
3. Bold Entity
About: Bold Entity is a Dallas-based industrial B2B marketing agency that extends its core construction and manufacturing marketing work into named recruiting-marketing engagements, evidenced by a published construction-recruiting-marketing case study and an explicit recruiting-services line on its site. The agency positions hiring campaigns as an add-on once a client's growth outpaces its labor supply, using the same audience-targeting approach it applies to commercial marketing. Vertical fit is adjacent, since roofing is not named specifically but commercial construction and industrial trades are core clients.
Key Services: Recruiting marketing campaigns, Digital-first employer branding, Paid social and search for hiring, Website and careers content, Video and creative production, Fractional marketing leadership
Industries Served: Commercial construction, Industrial manufacturing, Engineering, Aerospace, Logistics
Notable Clients: Not publicly named — case studies are anonymised by category
Locations: Dallas, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Mid-market industrial contractors, Commercial construction firms, Manufacturers scaling headcount
Website: Bold Entity
4. WorkRocket
About: WorkRocket is a Richmond, Virginia recruitment-marketing partner with a dedicated construction industry page and multiple named case studies, including Smith Brothers Farms and Excel Truck Group, that report specific hiring-cost reductions from shifting spend away from Indeed alone. The agency runs cost-efficient, multi-channel job advertising combined with a telephone-screen and applicant-tracking layer it calls Launchpad. Fit for roofing labor is adjacent, since its named clients sit in trucking, dairy distribution and manufacturing rather than roofing specifically.
Key Services: Multi-channel job advertising, Recruitment process outsourcing, Applicant screening and Launchpad tracking, Cost-per-hire optimization, Job board management, Recruitment marketing strategy
Industries Served: Construction, Manufacturing, Logistics and trucking, Engineering, Medical services
Notable Clients: Smith Brothers Farms, Excel Truck Group, MTI Baths, Gibbs Die Casting Corporation
Locations: Richmond, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Multi-location trades employers, Manufacturers, Transportation and logistics companies
Website: WorkRocket
5. Valve+Meter Performance Marketing
About: Valve+Meter Performance Marketing is an Indianapolis performance-marketing agency serving home-service contractors that applies its lead-generation playbook to hiring, evidenced by a published case study for A-1 Mechanical describing optimized Google Ads, a careers page built to convert and a reported 46% saving over traditional recruitment cost with three strategic hires. Its home-services case study library sits alongside the recruitment work, making the recruiting deliverable one line item within a broader marketing retainer. Vertical fit is adjacent, since the named recruiting case study is an HVAC contractor rather than a roofer.
Key Services: Recruitment-focused Google Ads, Careers page conversion optimization, Display and geofencing recruitment campaigns, Website and SEO for contractors, Call tracking and reporting, B2B and home-services marketing
Industries Served: HVAC, Home services, Field service contractors, B2B services, Manufacturing
Notable Clients: A-1 Mechanical, RPM Machinery
Locations: Indianapolis, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: HVAC and field-service contractors, Home-services businesses with hiring gaps, Owner-operators needing careers page work
Website: Valve+Meter Performance Marketing
6. Recruit Rooster
About: Recruit Rooster is an Indianapolis-based recruitment-marketing agency whose core deliverable is enterprise career-site design, evidenced by named case studies including a 515% increase in apply clicks for Frontdoor and a career-site rebuild for ICW Group described as reflecting a distinct employer brand. The agency layers text recruiting, video and marketing automation on top of its career-site platform for large, multi-location employers. Vertical fit is adjacent, since its named clients are insurance and home-warranty companies rather than roofing contractors, though its career-site model applies directly to any high-volume hourly hiring funnel.
Key Services: Career site design and development, Apply-flow conversion optimization, Text recruiting, Video for careers pages, Marketing automation for candidates, AI-powered job search
Industries Served: Insurance and home warranty, Healthcare systems, Government and municipal, Retail, Manufacturing
Notable Clients: Frontdoor, ICW Group, Sanford Health, The Good Samaritan Society
Locations: Indianapolis, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Enterprise employers with high apply volume, Multi-location hourly workforces, Employers needing a career-site rebuild
Website: Recruit Rooster
7. Vocation Media
About: Vocation Media is a London-headquartered recruitment-marketing agency whose services page explicitly lists skilled trades among its niche job-board categories, running owned job boards plus programmatic distribution priced on cost-per-click or cost-per-application. The agency serves employers, staffing agencies and job boards across the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Canada rather than any single vertical. Fit for roofing hiring is adjacent, since skilled trades is one of several named categories rather than a dedicated specialty.
Key Services: Programmatic job advertising, Owned job board distribution, Cost-per-application media buying, Email audience recruitment campaigns, Social recruitment distribution, Publisher network management
Industries Served: Skilled trades, Logistics, Hospitality, Technology, Healthcare
Notable Clients: Not publicly named — case studies are anonymised by category
Locations: London, United Kingdom, Wynantskill, United States
Pricing: Performance-priced by cost-per-click or cost-per-application; no flat rate card
Great For: Multi-market employers, Job boards and staffing agencies, Employers wanting pay-per-applicant pricing
Website: Vocation Media
8. Second Story Marketing Group
About: Second Story Marketing Group is a small Richland, Washington agency built specifically around recruitment and outreach marketing for the trades, evidenced by its homepage promise to help contractors attract new employees and apprentices and a named public-awareness recruitment campaign for Oregon Tradeswomen. Founder Terry Bierwirth brings a media-buying background into trade-school and apprenticeship-pipeline campaigns across the Pacific Northwest. Fit for roofing crews is direct, since apprentice and trade-worker recruitment is the agency's stated specialty rather than a side service.
Key Services: Recruitment and outreach marketing, Apprentice pipeline campaigns, Branding and creative for trades, Digital marketing for contractors, Employee retention content, Trade-school partnership campaigns
Industries Served: Skilled trades, Construction, Trade schools and apprenticeship programs, Manufacturing, Local government workforce programs
Notable Clients: Oregon Tradeswomen
Locations: Richland, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Trade apprenticeship programs, Regional trades contractors, Workforce-development nonprofits
Website: Second Story Marketing Group
9. Advance Recruitment
About: Advance Recruitment is the recruitment-advertising division of Alabama Media Group, running SEM, Meta Ads, email targeting and geofencing hiring campaigns evidenced by named case studies for Power Design and the Alabama Department of Labor, including a documented expansion of a hiring campaign from Phoenix into Tampa and the Houston area. The agency leans on Advance Local's regional media reach rather than trade-specific creative. Vertical fit is adjacent, since named clients span construction staffing, government and healthcare rather than roofing.
Key Services: Search engine marketing for hiring, Meta Ads recruitment campaigns, Geofenced recruitment advertising, Email targeting for candidates, Job distribution, Employer branding campaigns
Industries Served: Commercial construction, Government workforce agencies, Healthcare, Logistics, Retail
Notable Clients: Power Design, Alabama Department of Labor, Children's of Alabama
Locations: Birmingham, United States, Huntsville, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Regional multi-state contractors, Government hiring programs, Healthcare systems
Website: Advance Recruitment
10. FieldWrk
About: FieldWrk is a Nashville-based branding and marketing agency spun out of construction-media company BuildWitt in 2018 that names employer branding as one of its core deliverables alongside websites and campaigns for heavy-civil and infrastructure contractors, with a stated mission to help clients attract and retain talent. Its exclusive focus on construction and dirt-world companies across the United States gives it deep category fluency in blue-collar hiring messaging. Fit for roofing crews is direct, since the agency serves construction trades exclusively even though roofing is not a named case study.
Key Services: Employer branding, Recruitment campaign creative, Website design for contractors, Social media for construction brands, Photo and video production, Brand strategy for trades
Industries Served: Heavy civil construction, Infrastructure contractors, Engineering and consulting, Construction product manufacturers, Aggregates and materials
Notable Clients: Not publicly named — case studies are anonymised by category
Locations: Nashville, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Heavy civil contractors, Infrastructure and AEC firms, Family-owned construction companies
Website: FieldWrk
11. Red Branch Media
About: Red Branch Media is an Omaha-based B2B marketing agency with a named employer-branding service line that builds EVPs, career sites and recruitment campaigns, and publishes tiered pricing starting at $8,625 per month for its HR-technology-focused offering. The agency also serves as implementation partner for larger employer-brand consultancies that need hands-on execution. Vertical fit is adjacent, since its published client roster and case studies center on HR technology and staffing-firm marketing rather than roofing or construction trades.
Key Services: Employer value proposition development, Career site design, Employer brand audits, Recruitment campaign execution, Content production for hiring, B2B lead generation
Industries Served: HR technology, Staffing and recruiting firms, B2B software, Professional services, Talent acquisition technology
Notable Clients: ClearCompany
Locations: Omaha, United States
Pricing: From USD $8,625/month
Great For: HR technology companies, Staffing firms, B2B employers needing EVP work
Website: Red Branch Media
12. Rivers Agency
About: Rivers Agency is a Chapel Hill, North Carolina advertising agency founded in 1993 that produced a named recruitment campaign and video for SPC Mechanical, a commercial construction and trades employer, reporting an 8.7% increase in careers page visits within the campaign's first three months. Recruitment work is one part of a broader integrated-campaign practice rather than the agency's primary specialty. Fit for roofing crews is adjacent, since SPC Mechanical is a mechanical trades contractor rather than a roofer, but the sourced work targets the same blue-collar hiring audience.
Key Services: Recruitment video production, Employer brand campaigns, Integrated advertising campaigns, Careers page content, Social media recruitment ads, Brand strategy
Industries Served: Commercial construction and mechanical trades, Consumer services, Healthcare, Retail, Local government
Notable Clients: SPC Mechanical
Locations: Chapel Hill, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Regional mechanical and trades contractors, Employee-owned companies, North Carolina based employers
Website: Rivers Agency
13. Thompson and Co Collective
About: Thompson and Co Collective is a Charlotte, North Carolina agency founded in 2024 that provides employer branding and recruitment marketing services exclusively, running a diagnostic process that examines candidate touchpoints and channel performance before building EVP, messaging and creative recommendations. As a young, small firm its public case-study library is limited, so claims rest on its stated service description rather than named vertical results. Fit for roofing hiring is adjacent, since the agency positions itself as industry-agnostic rather than trades-specific.
Key Services: Employer value proposition strategy, Candidate experience design, Recruitment media planning, Channel performance diagnostics, Creative direction for hiring, Baseline performance audits
Industries Served: Professional services, Healthcare, Financial services, Technology, Nonprofit
Notable Clients: Not publicly named — case studies are anonymised by category
Locations: Charlotte, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Employers needing an EVP diagnostic, Mid-size regional companies, First-time employer-brand buyers
Website: Thompson and Co Collective
14. DZ and Associates
About: DZ and Associates is an Appleton, Wisconsin branding and marketing agency serving trades and construction-adjacent businesses, evidenced by named case studies for Banker Insulation and Foster Insulation describing long-term marketing partnerships that included growth and talent messaging for insulation contractors. Founder Dana Zurbuchen built the firm from a media background into a full branding practice for overlooked small and mid-size trades companies. Fit for roofing crews is adjacent, since insulation contracting is a closely comparable trade rather than roofing itself.
Key Services: Branding and design, Recruitment-oriented content marketing, Website design for contractors, Social media management, Copywriting, Marketing strategy for trades
Industries Served: Insulation contracting, Construction, Finance, Professional services, Manufacturing
Notable Clients: Banker Insulation, Foster Insulation, First Business Bank
Locations: Appleton, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Insulation and specialty trades contractors, Small and mid-size construction companies, Family-owned trades businesses
Website: DZ and Associates
15. Markstein
About: Markstein is a Birmingham, Alabama creative communications agency with a named Talent and Workforce Marketing service line, evidenced by a published Alabama Trucking Association recruitment campaign for professional drivers and diesel technicians and a Birmingham Police Department recruitment-funnel landing page case study. Its roots in branding and crisis communications carry into workforce campaigns for associations and public-sector employers. Fit for roofing crews is adjacent, since named clients are trucking and public-safety associations rather than roofing contractors, though the skilled-trades workforce approach transfers directly.
Key Services: Talent and workforce marketing, Recruitment landing pages, Workforce campaign strategy, Brand and crisis communications, Training pipeline content, Public-sector recruitment campaigns
Industries Served: Trucking and transportation, Law enforcement and public safety, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Trade associations
Notable Clients: Alabama Trucking Association, Go Build Alabama, Birmingham Police Department
Locations: Birmingham, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Trade associations, Public-sector workforce programs, Regional trucking and trades employers
Website: Markstein
16. Magnetize
About: Magnetize is a St Louis, Missouri branding and marketing agency that built a named recruiting brand and campaign called TradeUp for Apex Trade Recruiting, aimed at engaging audiences to choose or continue a career in the trades, and won w3 Awards recognizing its recruitment-campaign work. The agency positions itself around purpose-driven organizations rather than any single industry. Fit for roofing crews is direct, since the Apex Trade Recruiting engagement specifically targets people entering skilled trades careers.
Key Services: Employer brand strategy and campaigns, Recruitment brand creative, Video and photography for hiring, Website design, Social media campaigns, Talent engagement strategy
Industries Served: Skilled trades training organizations, Nonprofit, Healthcare, Education, Purpose-driven organizations
Notable Clients: Apex Trade Recruiting, Little City Foundation
Locations: St. Louis, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Trade training and apprenticeship organizations, Nonprofits recruiting field staff, Purpose-driven employers
Website: Magnetize
17. Hero Creative
About: Hero Creative is a Seattle branding, web and video studio with a named Iron Workers recruitment case study describing a cinematic recruitment film used at hiring events across five states, built to challenge negative perceptions of trades careers. The agency's broader client list spans technology and consumer brands, with recruiting video as one of several creative services rather than its core specialty. Fit for roofing crews is adjacent, since the named case study covers ironworking rather than roofing, but the creative approach to trades recruitment video is directly transferable.
Key Services: Recruitment video production, Brand storytelling, Photography for careers content, Website design, Creative strategy, Social content production
Industries Served: Construction trades unions, Technology, Consumer brands, Cloud services, Nonprofit
Notable Clients: Iron Workers, Google Cloud
Locations: Seattle, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Trade unions and apprenticeship programs, Employers needing recruitment films, Brands recruiting against stereotypes
Website: Hero Creative
18. Watts Media
About: Watts Media is a Seattle video production company with a named, multi-year recruitment and culture film relationship with global engineering and construction firm Fluor, including a documented Craft Pride film built specifically to showcase the craft workforce behind Fluor's projects. The agency's specialty is film and animation for internal communications and hiring rather than paid media buying or careers-site work. Fit for roofing crews is adjacent, since Fluor's craft workforce spans industrial trades broader than roofing, but the recruitment-video discipline is a direct evidenced service.
Key Services: Recruitment and culture video production, Animation and motion design, Internal communications video, Employee storytelling content, Event video production, Brand film strategy
Industries Served: Engineering and construction, Technology, Consumer brands, Nonprofit, Corporate events
Notable Clients: Fluor, Microsoft, Amazon, Deloitte, Intel
Locations: Seattle, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Large engineering and construction firms, Employers with craft workforce culture stories, Companies needing recruitment films
Website: Watts Media
19. Blue Collar Creative
About: Blue Collar Creative is a Ray, Michigan video production and storytelling agency whose homepage names recruiting as a core service, promising to save clients time and money with video campaigns that tell the authentic stories of a company's best people to expand hiring reach. Its whole brand identity and content library center on blue-collar workers and industries. Fit for roofing crews is direct, since blue-collar recruitment video is the agency's stated specialty rather than an add-on.
Key Services: Recruitment video production, Employee storytelling content, Social media recruitment content, Podcast production for trades brands, Brand video strategy, Company culture documentaries
Industries Served: Construction trades, Manufacturing, Skilled trades technology, Field services, Blue-collar small business
Notable Clients: Not publicly named — case studies are anonymised by category
Locations: Ray, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Blue-collar small businesses, Trades contractors needing recruiting video, Contech and industrial brands
Website: Blue Collar Creative
20. BuiltFor Studio
About: BuiltFor Studio is a New York City marketing agency that works exclusively with construction companies and has a named Employer Brand Design service page describing careers-page copy, professional photography and recruitment collateral for job fairs and trade schools built for construction and subcontracting employers. A published blog case study on Nova Construction Services credits the agency's storytelling with improving recruitment of candidates aligned to company values. Fit for roofing crews is direct, since the agency serves general contractors and specialist trades exclusively.
Key Services: Employer brand design, Careers page copywriting, Recruitment collateral for job fairs, Social media content for hiring, Branding and logo design, Website design for contractors
Industries Served: General contracting, Specialist trades and subcontracting, Scaffolding and equipment suppliers, Construction product manufacturers, Architecture and engineering
Notable Clients: Nova Construction Services, New York City Special Riggers Association
Locations: New York, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: General contractors and subcontractors, New York area construction firms, Construction product and equipment suppliers
Website: BuiltFor Studio
21. Fratzke
About: Fratzke is a Fullerton, California digital marketing and communications agency with a named careers-website case study for TopBuild describing a centralized careers microsite built to make hiring feel easier and more connected across a portfolio of building-products brands. The agency's broader practice covers website design, digital marketing and internal communications across several industries. Fit for roofing crews is adjacent, since TopBuild manufactures and installs insulation rather than roofing, but the careers-microsite deliverable applies directly to multi-brand trades hiring.
Key Services: Careers website design and development, Internal communications strategy, Digital marketing audits, Website redesign for contractors, Brand strategy, Content marketing
Industries Served: Building products and insulation, Construction distribution, Retail, Manufacturing, Professional services
Notable Clients: TopBuild, TruTeam
Locations: Fullerton, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: Multi-brand building-products companies, Construction distributors, Companies needing a careers microsite
Website: Fratzke
Quick Comparison Table
| Agency | Key Specialty | Starting Price | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Main Street Recruitment | Blue-collar recruitment marketing | USD $2,500/mo | Trades and manufacturing hiring volume |
| 2. Web Tonic | Full-Service Performance Marketing | USD $3,000/mo | Mid-market to Enterprise |
| 3. Bold Entity | Industrial recruiting marketing | Quote-based | Industrial and construction hiring campaigns |
| 4. WorkRocket | Cost-efficient recruitment marketing | Quote-based | Reducing job-board hiring costs |
| 5. Valve+Meter Performance Marketing | Performance marketing for hiring | Quote-based | Home-service contractor hiring funnels |
| 6. Recruit Rooster | Career site conversion | Quote-based | High-volume career-site redesigns |
| 7. Vocation Media | Performance-priced job distribution | Quote-based | Pay-per-application recruitment media |
| 8. Second Story Marketing Group | Trades apprentice recruitment | Quote-based | Apprentice and trade-worker campaigns |
| 9. Advance Recruitment | Multi-market hiring campaigns | Quote-based | Regional expansion hiring drives |
| 10. FieldWrk | Construction employer branding | Quote-based | Construction-exclusive brand and hiring work |
| 11. Red Branch Media | Employer brand and EVP | USD $8,625/mo | EVP and career-site strategy |
| 12. Rivers Agency | Trades recruitment video | Quote-based | Recruitment video campaigns |
| 13. Thompson and Co Collective | Employer brand diagnostics | Quote-based | EVP and channel audits before scale |
| 14. DZ and Associates | Trades branding and marketing | Quote-based | Long-term trades marketing partnerships |
| 15. Markstein | Workforce and talent marketing | Quote-based | Association and public-sector hiring campaigns |
| 16. Magnetize | Trades recruitment branding | Quote-based | Trade career awareness campaigns |
| 17. Hero Creative | Recruitment storytelling video | Quote-based | Cinematic trades recruitment video |
| 18. Watts Media | Craft workforce culture film | Quote-based | Recruitment and culture film production |
| 19. Blue Collar Creative | Blue-collar recruiting video | Quote-based | Authentic blue-collar recruitment stories |
| 20. BuiltFor Studio | Construction employer branding | Quote-based | Careers-page and job-fair collateral |
| 21. Fratzke | Careers microsite design | Quote-based | Multi-brand portfolio careers sites |
Frequently Asked Questions
How tight is the roofing labour market?
Tight enough that hiring is now a capacity constraint rather than a staffing chore. The Associated General Contractors of America found ninety-two percent of construction firms struggling to fill craft or hourly openings, thirty-six percent of roofing contractors named a lack of qualified workers as a top challenge going into 2026, and more than half of one industry survey reported an active field labour shortage. Roughly three and a half percent of all construction positions sat unfilled.
What does a roofing hire actually cost?
More than most contractors book for it. The Society for Human Resource Management puts the average non-executive cost per hire at five thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars, while programmatic job-ad benchmarks for construction and skilled trades sit around six dollars and fifty-six cents per applicant. Skilled trades roles average about fifty-six days to hire against fifty-four for desk-based professional roles, so the crew you need in April is a February decision.
Do these agencies publish prices?
Two of the twenty external firms do. Main Street Recruitment lists two thousand five hundred dollars a month and Red Branch Media publishes eight thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars a month for employer brand and career-site strategy work. Web Tonic starts at three thousand dollars a month. Everyone else quotes per scope, so compare on media spend included, applicants promised, who owns the careers page and whether reporting reaches hires.
Is recruitment video worth the money for a roofing company?
Often yes, because the objection you are fighting is reputational rather than financial. Trades recruiting loses candidates who assume the work is unsafe, seasonal and a dead end, and a two-minute film of a real crew, a real foreman and a real career path answers that better than any job description. Firms here such as Hero Creative, Watts Media, Rivers Agency and Blue Collar Creative build their offer around exactly that.
Should we run this in-house instead?
You can, and plenty of contractors should, provided somebody owns it daily. In-house works when one person is accountable for job-ad spend, the apply flow and callback speed, because the biggest losses in trades hiring happen between application and first phone call rather than in the ad account. Bring an agency in when you are hiring across multiple markets, opening a new branch, or replacing an expensive job-board-only habit.
Choosing a Roofing Recruitment Marketing Agency
Hire against a number, not a feeling. With average non-executive cost per hire near five thousand five hundred dollars and trades applicants around six and a half dollars each, the gap between those two figures is where your process either works or leaks.
Start hiring a season early. Skilled trades roles take about fifty-six days to fill, so a spring crew is a winter campaign.
Fix the callback before the creative. Installers apply from a phone between jobs and take the first company that rings back, so response speed usually beats better ad copy.
Sell the career, not the vacancy. Ninety-two percent of construction firms report difficulty filling craft openings, which means every candidate has options and the winning message is progression, pay clarity and a crew worth joining. If you want paid social, careers-page builds and hire-level reporting from one accountable team, read the latest analysis or book a call.
