Construction and Trades HR System

One price for the whole program. The six toolkits inside total $394 bought separately, and the two workbooks that run them are exclusive to this system.

A contractor or office manager running HR for the field inherits the same pile at once: crew attendance no two foremen handle the same way, hiring done on a handshake, foremen with no paperwork, licenses tracked from memory, onboarding that loses a hire in the first weeks, and a pay ladder good people leave over. Buying six separate fixes leaves you to make them agree with each other.

The Construction and Trades HR System is the six field toolkits built to work together, plus the two tools that run them as one program: a Contractor HR Audit Checklist that tells you where to start, and a Seasonal Staffing Planner that sizes the crews against the work ahead.

What is inside

Six complete toolkits, each in its own folder with its own Start Here, plus two exclusive workbooks and one license covering everything.

• 1. Crew Attendance and No-Show System. The crew points tracker that rolls up by crew and by foreman, the weather-day policy, foreman conversation scripts, and bilingual crew forms.
• 2. Construction and Trades Hiring Kit. The field hiring guide, trade job descriptions, structured interview guides with score sheets, and a bilingual application, so the crew hires on one fair standard.
• 3. Foreman Field Toolkit. The field workbook that runs the crew roster, jobsite documentation, toolbox talks, and the incident log, plus jobsite conversation scripts and bilingual documentation forms for the people who run the crew day to day.
• 4. License and Certification Tracker, Trades Edition. One register with expiration runways, a blocks-work flag, a crew coverage matrix, and the quarterly verification walk that keeps it honest.
• 5. Field Onboarding System. The first weeks on the crew run on purpose, from day one through the ninety-day mark, with checklists, a buddy structure, and editable templates.
• 6. Technician Pay and Retention Toolkit. Wage ladders, technician placement, a retention risk review, and the stay-conversation tools that keep good technicians from leaving over a dollar an hour and a path they cannot see.
• Contractor HR Audit Checklist (Excel, exclusive to this system). The scored walk through your field HR, section by section, that tells you which folder to open first and tracks owners and priorities against an honest evidence rule.
• Seasonal Staffing Planner (Excel, exclusive to this system). The tool that sizes crews against the work ahead, showing where you run short by how much and by when, so you hire or shift people before the gap hits the schedule.

Plus the Product License, one license covering everything in this system.

What makes it different

The two exclusives are tools you cannot buy separately, and they are what turn six toolkits into a program. The audit finds the gaps and tells you which folder to open first. The staffing planner keeps you ahead of the seasonal swing instead of reacting to it.

Every toolkit inside is the full standalone product, not a sample: the same workbooks, scripts, bilingual forms, and completed examples, organized in numbered folders with a use order that starts with the audit. Each toolkit also stands on its own, so if attendance is your fire today, start there and come back to the rest.

Questions contractors ask

Where do I start?

Run the audit first, in your first week, before you open any toolkit folder. The root Start Here walks the full order.

Is this just the six products zipped together?

No. Everything ships under one license with a single use order, and the audit and the planner are not sold separately.

Will it work without an HR person?

Yes. It is built for owners and office managers running the field HR themselves at shops with roughly 5 to 150 field employees.

Do I need special software?

No. The documents open in Word, the guides are PDF, and the workbooks open in Excel or Google Sheets, with a short guide for the Sheets path.

If you are looking for a single piece rather than the whole system, the Construction and Trades Hiring Kit, the Field Onboarding System, the Crew Attendance and No-Show System, and the Technician Pay and Retention Toolkit are each available on their own.

How the download works

Your files arrive as a single ZIP download, best opened on a computer: save it, extract it (right-click and Extract All on Windows, double-click on a Mac), and open the Start Here file first. PDFs open in any reader, and the editable files work in Microsoft Word and Excel or their free equivalents, including LibreOffice and Google Docs and Sheets. No other software is needed. Step-by-step help for every device is at truestephr.com/pages/download-help.

Scope

This system is a set of working tools and editable templates for running construction and trades HR in a clear, consistent, and defensible way. It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for qualified counsel on your specific situation. Attendance, leave, wage, licensing, and overtime rules vary by jurisdiction and change over time, so have policies and pay decisions reviewed against applicable law before you finalize them.

Built to the TrueStep HR standard. Backed by a 14-day money-back guarantee. Questions: support@truestephr.com.