Reference checks for the techs you send into homes.
An HVAC tech, plumber, dispatcher, or CSR represents your company in a customer's home. MyLynda screens every applicant for free, then reference-checks your finalists — so you know who shows up, who gets rehired, and who leaves a trail of callbacks, before the second interview.
The trades run on trust, and turnover breaks it.
Your techs enter customers' homes, so reliability matters more than almost anywhere. But the trades turn over fast, you hire constantly, and there's no HR to chase a reference. A no-show tech or a flaky dispatcher costs you jobs and one-star reviews.
Your tech is in someone's home
A field tech who can't follow through costs you callbacks, bad reviews, and the customer, not just a paycheck.
You hire between jobs
There's no HR team and no time for phone tag, so the reference check that would catch a no-show never happens.
Job-hopping hides on a resume
Short tenures, unexplained gaps, and would-rehire answers are easy to miss on paper and expensive to learn after training.
Screen everyone. Reference-check the finalists.
The same two-stage flow the rest of MyLynda runs, tuned to the roles a home services business actually hires.
Add your applicants
Drop in resumes or a CSV from Indeed or your ATS. We parse, rank, and grade every one, free.
Pick your finalists
Compare on tenure, gaps, and fit, then choose which tech or dispatcher is worth a real reference check.
We run the reference checks
Your finalist authorizes it; we email their past employers a structured questionnaire, cross-check work history on LinkedIn, and return a green / amber / red verdict with the questions to ask next.
Home services hiring questions.
What home services roles does MyLynda screen?
Field techs across HVAC, plumbing, and electrical, plus dispatchers, CSRs, install and cleaning crews, pest and landscaping crews, and the office staff that keep a trade business running.
Can it tell me if a tech is reliable and would be rehired?
That's the core of it. MyLynda emails a structured questionnaire to past employers covering reliability, attendance, would-rehire, callbacks, and tenure — the signal that decides whether a tech you put in a customer's home shows up and does the job right.
Do you call the references on the phone?
No. MyLynda emails past employers a structured questionnaire rather than phoning them, and runs an automated LinkedIn cross-check on the candidate's work history. You get the answers in writing, usually within 24 hours.
How much does it cost?
Screening is free. A completed reference check is $2.99, and your first check is free. No subscription.
Built for the way small businesses hire.
Hire the tech who shows up.
Screen your applicants free, then reference-check your finalist before you put them in a truck. First check free.
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