Construction hiring moves fast.
Your software should keep up.
Recruitment software for construction and infrastructure agencies. Track site managers, quantity surveyors, and trades — across projects, clients, and regions.
Construction recruitment has problems
that generic software ignores.
High turnover, certification chaos, seasonal demand spikes, roles spread across six different sites. Most ATS platforms were designed for office-based hiring teams processing inbound applications. Construction recruitment doesn't work like that.
Fill roles before groundbreaking — not after
Construction timelines are brutal. A site manager vacancy on day one costs more than the recruitment fee. Yena lets you build project-specific pipelines so hiring keeps pace with mobilisation schedules — from tender award to first day on site.
See all project hiring features"We used to scramble for site managers two weeks before breaking ground. Now the pipeline is ready the day we win a contract."
Structured enough to survive a busy tender period.
Flexible enough to handle the chaos.
Ready when the call comes in
Your talent pool is searchable in seconds. When a main contractor needs a quantity surveyor by Thursday, you're pulling a ranked shortlist — not hunting through inboxes.
Compliance that doesn't slip
CSCS cards, CPCS tickets, DBS checks, first aid certs — all stored, all flagged before expiry. Automated reminders mean your consultants catch the problem, not the client.
Built around projects, not just jobs
Tag roles by project, phase, client, and location. When a new site goes live, duplicate the pipeline structure and you're recruiting in minutes, not days.
Live in 24 hours.
No consultants, no 16-week rollout.
We migrate your candidate data, set up your pipelines, and onboard your team. Construction agencies typically run both systems in parallel for one week — then retire the old one.
"We migrated four years of candidate records over a weekend. By Monday morning the whole team was recruiting from Yena. Our previous system took three months to implement."
Secure. GDPR-ready. Trusted by agencies across the UK and Europe.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can add custom fields to any candidate profile — including certification type, issue date, and expiry. Set reminders so your team gets flagged before a critical cert lapses. It doesn't replace a dedicated compliance system for high-volume temp labour, but for permanent and contract placements it handles the day-to-day tracking cleanly.
Each job in Yena can be tagged by project, location, client, or any custom field you set up. Consultants can filter the full pipeline to see just their roles or just one project's roles. Nothing gets buried. If you're managing 20 simultaneous live roles across four counties, you'll have a single source of truth rather than four separate spreadsheets.
That's exactly the use case it's built for. Your existing talent pool is searchable in seconds by trade, location, certification, and availability. When a main contractor calls with five roles to fill before Monday, you're searching a structured database — not trawling inboxes for CVs you remember seeing last year.
No. The system works for both. You'd typically set up separate pipelines or tag roles by discipline. AI matching understands the semantic difference between a site supervisor role and a quantity surveyor role, so candidate suggestions stay relevant. Several construction agencies use Yena for both their trades and white-collar desks.
Dedicated construction staffing platforms tend to be built for temp payroll and high-volume daily labour — useful if you're placing 500 labourers a week. Yena is better suited for agencies doing permanent and contract placements at the skilled trade and professional level, where relationship management, candidate quality, and client communication matter more than timesheet processing. If your margin comes from quality placements rather than volume temp, Yena is the better fit.
24 hours from sign-up to live. We handle data migration from your existing ATS, spreadsheets, or wherever your candidate records live. The migration is free and we run both systems in parallel until you're comfortable. Most construction agencies have their team fully operational within a week.
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