FOR TRADES & CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES
You can teach the trade.
You can't teach character.
Quadrant is the DISC and character assessment built for the people who build things. Know how someone works before you put them on a crew, in a truck, or in front of your customers.
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Or try the assessment on yourself first. Ten minutes, no card.
The math on one bad hire
Wages during the misfire, the foreman's hours spent managing them, the rework, the customer you had to win back, and the restart of the whole hiring process. Most companies eat one of these a year without ever adding it up.
We are not going to put a number on that for you. We do not know your wage rates, your rework, or what a lost customer is worth in your town, and neither does anybody quoting you an industry average. Add up your own last one. That is the number that matters.
What Quadrant tells you
Their DISC combination.
Twelve working styles, in plain language a foreman would use. Who pushes, who steadies, who sells, who checks the work.
Five character measures.
Driven, humble, aware, coachable, composed. The stuff that decides whether talent actually shows up on Monday.
The gap.
How they see themselves versus how they actually behave. That gap is where surprises live, and Quadrant measures it.
The fit.
Build the ideal profile for a role from its job description, then see every candidate scored against it before the first interview.
Built into a full hiring engine
- The job description itself, written for the seat and rendered in your own logo and colours: the mission, an outcome and how it is measured table, what the seat owns, how the seat runs. Download it for Word or save it as a PDF. Most trades companies do not have these written down.
- Post a role with its own application link and QR code. Applicants take the assessment and land in your pipeline automatically.
- Standardized screening, deep interview, and reference scripts, the same for every candidate, so you compare straight across.
- AI-built focused interview questions from each candidate's measured gaps.
- Candidates get honest status emails at every stage. Nobody goes in a drawer.
- A year later, the review runs off that same job description. Quadrant will not open a review without one, and it freezes the lines it pulls out so the standard cannot move after the fact.
- Got a good person in the wrong seat? Hold their assessment up against the job description for the seat they already hold and Quadrant tells you what to lean into, what to rewrite, what to hand to somebody else, and where you are carrying retention risk. Everybody thinks of this as fitting people to jobs. This does it the other way: it fits the job to the person you cannot replace.
- Free, no card: a straight read on how you actually lead. Ten minutes.
See all of it, filled in with sample people →
Priced for a trades company, not a tech company
$30 a month, plus $7 a month for each person on your roster. CAD. Applicants are free, however many apply, because they are not on your roster yet. Twenty people is $170 a month. Every login your crew needs is included, at any size. Pay yearly and you get two months back. Full pricing here.
See your own profile first
The assessment takes about ten minutes. Take it yourself, then picture having this on every applicant before you interview.
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