Your graduates are job-ready. Now prove it - and place them in minutes.
BigHire for Manufacturing turns instructor-verified skills into instant matches between your students and the employers hiring them - replacing the manual matchmaking that eats your week and the self-reported résumés employers can't verify.
One verified skill language across the shop floor
Placement is the whole promise. Right now it runs on memory and email.
The success of a manufacturing program rests on getting students hired - it's the reason students enroll. Yet the job matching that makes it happen is manual, subjective, and impossible to scale.
30–50 hours a semester, gone
Directors burn entire workweeks playing matchmaker by hand - time that should go to students, not spreadsheets and reply-alls.
A missed email is a missed career
An employer writes asking for two machinists. The note gets buried. The opportunity - and the placement - quietly disappears.
Self-reported skills nobody trusts
"I'm an expert at this." Nine months in, employers know better. Inflated résumés waste everyone's time on the wrong interviews.
It all lives in one person's head
The whole matching process is subjective and undocumented. When that person is out, placement grinds to a halt.
“If we didn't help them find jobs, we wouldn't exist. That's the ultimate goal - but it takes up a ton of time. I've had to pay someone extra, on top of their job, just to do the placement.”
Trusted skills in, perfect matches out.
The fix isn't another job board. It's a trust loop: the student claims a skill, the instructor verifies it, and the employer can finally believe it. That verified data is what makes matching objective - and fast.
Student claims it
Each student self-assesses on a simple 0–3 scale as they move through the program - no résumé guesswork.
Instructor verifies it
The right instructor confirms or adjusts each level. This is the trust no other platform has.
Employer trusts it
Employers match on verified levels, see exactly what was signed off, and move straight to the interview.
One platform. A purpose-built view for everyone.
Every role gets exactly what they need and nothing they don't. Pick a role to see the workflow.
Build a profile that proves what you can do.
No more guessing whether an employer will believe your résumé. Your skills are verified by the people who taught you.
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Create your profile in class
Set up your profile in week one — contact info, transportation, what you're looking for, and any industries you'd rather avoid.
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Level up as you learn
Finish a lesson, rate yourself 1–3 on each skill. Watch your profile grow from zero to job-ready over the semester.
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Get discovered & place yourself
Once verified, employers searching for your exact skills find you — and you can land the job without anyone playing middleman.
Everything you need to place students faster.
Designed with a real program director - for the way manufacturing programs actually run.
Instructor-verified skills
Students self-assess, instructors sign off. Employers see only what someone who actually taught the student confirmed.
Skill-level matching
Employers set a minimum and a recommended level per skill. Matching surfaces the candidates who genuinely fit.
A clear 3-tier scale
Exposure, Confidence, Proficiency. One honest standard everyone reads the same way - from the shop floor to HR.
Built-in motivation
Students level up skill by skill across the term. It turns progress into something they can see - and compete on.
Role-based workflows
Students, instructors, employers, and directors each get a focused view. No clutter, no training manual required.
Placement you can measure
Track who got hired and where. The proof points that power your marketing and your next funding ask.
Not another job board. The opposite of one.
Indeed, LinkedIn, and Handshake just pile up self-reported listings aimed at office workers switching jobs. None are built for the trade-school student leaving a program with real, verified skills. BigHire fills that gap in recruitment.
We stay deliberately focused: the trades, the people who train them, and the employers who need them. That focus is exactly what makes the matches good.
Talk to us40–70
students placed per program, per year
90%+
placement rate the manual way - now without the grind
30–50 hrs
of matchmaking saved every semester
12+
manufacturing programs in the pilot state alone
Help us build the placement tool the trades have been missing.
We're signing up a small group of launch partners - programs, instructors, and employers who want first access and a real say in what we build. Pilot schools use it free.