Two things make Trade Hounds unique: digital profiles and entertainment content.Ĭlassic written resumes are difficult and unhelpful for construction job sites and workers. He believes that hard working blue-collar Americans need a site that serves their interest and that they can enjoy. Trade Hounds is already getting attention from the Mayor Walsh’s office and buy in from the Department of Veterans’ Services in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.īroomhead’s vision is to deliver the first online blue-collar community much like LinkedIn has created a white-collar community and media exchange. Currently, job listings include commercial, residential and industrial construction Broomhead has plans to move into other industries in the future. Trade Hounds mobile app and website has a blend of funny and informative content to engage the members, along with a jobs listings and career resources. All of these approaches were inefficient and expensive.īroomhead has established Trade Hounds as a media company based in Boston. He found that the industry relied upon word of mouth, Craigslist and recruiters in order to source labor. His first step was the construction industry, because he was familiar with it and its “old school” business practices.Īfter interviewing more than 50 business leaders in the Boston-area during winter 2014, Broomhead determined that the biggest industry issue was with sourcing and hiring of quality and reliable tradesmen. Both his parents were entrepreneurs and many members of his family were in the trades or the army.
Trade Hounds: The LinkedIn for Blue-Collar Americaĭavid Broomhead MBA ’15 decided to quit his high power finance job in Australia to come to Babson and disrupt the construction industry in America-thus creating the first online blue-collar community, Trade Hounds.īroomhead grew up in Townsville, Australia-a blue collar tropical town in North Queensland.
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