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Hiring for the Trades: AI, Pay Transparency & Better Candidates | Amy Fink & Dan Fleisher

More applicants won’t fix a hiring process that loses good people before the interview.

Amy Fink of Built By the Trades returns to Catalyst for the Trades, stepping into the guest host seat alongside Jennifer L. Bagley and Dan Fleisher, co-founder of HireBus. Together, they break down how contractors can attract stronger candidates, respond faster, and use AI to reduce hiring busywork while keeping final decisions in human hands.

Drawing on HireBus’s analysis of 250,000 completed candidate applications in the trades, Dan shares what his team is seeing across careers pages, pay transparency…

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