The skilled trades hiring platform — connecting workers, employers, and partners
KinTrades™ (formerly GetWorkKin) is a skills-first hiring platform that connects skilled trades workers with employers — without resumes, long applications, or sorting through unqualified candidates.
Purpose-built for practical hiring decisions in the skilled trades.
Post jobs, browse worker profiles with skill photos and videos, and access built-in hiring benefits — bonding, training reimbursement, and tax credits. Our match algorithm surfaces the best candidates first.
Build your profile in minutes. Show what you can do with photos and videos of your actual work. Get matched with employers hiring in your trade and area. Second-chance friendly — your skills speak for themselves.
Workforce boards, training programs, community colleges, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, reentry programs, and veterans organizations. Built-in placement tracking supports GO Virginia, WIOA, and federal grant compliance.
KinTrades is providing the hiring infrastructure for the Nationwide Day of Second Chances Job Fair in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2026 — connecting employers with skilled trades workers rebuilding their careers.
Shanell Guardo is a veteran and technologist who founded KinTrades after extensive research with skilled trades workers and employers across Virginia, North Carolina, D.C., and Maryland.
Through dozens of interviews, Shanell identified a critical gap: no platform exists to help credentialed trades workers demonstrate their skills-first value to employers. KinTrades was built to bridge this gap.
KinTrades is a product of KinTech, LLC — an impact-driven technology company that builds and incubates platforms across workforce, defense, healthcare, financial services, and public-sector technology.
KinTech brings together product thinking, technical execution, and community-centered design to build systems that create durable opportunity across industries.
KinTech, LLC is certified by the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (SBSD):
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