Is it really free to post work?

Yes. Posting a contract, a job or an RFQ costs nothing, and hiring costs nothing. There is no placement fee.

You do. You post at the rate you want to pay. There is no negotiating, nobody is bid down, and there is no margin buried in the number that you cannot see.

How fast does specialised work fill?

You see qualified applicants within minutes of posting, and boots can be on the ground in as little as a day.

Will I be flooded with unqualified applicants?

No. You see profiles of experienced industry professionals carrying ratings, reviews, endorsements and completed contracts, and you decide who to talk to.

What It Actually Costs to Find One Engineer

Job board credits, screening hours, the weeks a line runs badly while you look, and a placement fee at the end of it. Most of the real cost of finding a specialist never appears on the invoice for finding them. Here is the honest accounting, and what changes when posting is free and you set the rate.

The invoice is the smallest number

When a plant works out what sourcing costs, it usually counts the things that arrive as a bill: the job board credits, the posting upgrades, the placement fee at the end. Those are real, and they are the smallest part of it.

The costs that decide the year are the ones nobody invoices you for.

The screening tax

Somebody has to read the applications. In this trade that somebody has to be technical enough to tell a real Studio 5000 background from a keyword. So it is your senior controls engineer, or your engineering manager, doing it in the evenings.

That is the most expensive hour you own, spent on the least leveraged task available. And it scales with volume — a posting that returns eighty applications is not better than one that returns eight, if seventy of them were never plausible.

The cost of the weeks themselves

Here is the number that dwarfs everything else and almost never enters the conversation: what does it cost to not have the work done?

A line that runs at reduced rate. A commissioning date that slides and takes the customer's launch with it. A maintenance backlog that becomes an unplanned outage. Whatever that figure is per week for you, multiply it by the length of a normal specialist search — and it will be a far larger number than any fee.

This is why "we could not find anyone" is rarely a talent story. The market did not run out of controls engineers. The search ran long, and the weeks were the expense.

The permanent-hire mismatch

There is one more cost, and it is structural. A great deal of specialist work is genuinely finite — a commissioning, an upgrade, a six-week debug. Hiring permanently for a finite scope means carrying the person afterwards or letting them go, and both of those are expensive in different ways.

The tool should match the shape of the problem. A four-week problem wants a four-week engagement.

What changes here

It is free to post, free to apply and free to hire. No credits, no upgrade tiers, no placement fee.

You post at the rate you want to pay. No negotiating, nobody bid down, and no margin buried inside the number that nobody shows you. The rate you write is the rate that ships.

Qualified professionals apply directly, often within minutes, and boots can be on the ground in as little as a day — which is the part that attacks the expensive cost, the weeks. And because you are looking at profiles carrying ratings, reviews, endorsements and completed contracts, the screening tax drops: you are reading evidence rather than claims.

If you already know who you want, you can skip posting entirely and search and request that professional directly.

And we do the marketing

The work you post gets written, designed, published and pushed across our channels. You are not paying for reach and you are not producing it yourself. That is part of what posting here means, and it costs nothing.