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Answers to common questions, from how the qualifying agent relationship works to how findQualifier.com itself operates.
Qualifiers and Employers
A qualifying agent is a licensed professional whose credentials allow a business to legally operate, bid on work, and pull permits under state contractor licensing rules. Most states require a licensed individual to qualify a company before the company itself can be licensed.
Most licensing boards don't require the business owner to be the licensed qualifier. They allow a company to hire a qualifying agent as an employee instead — but that employment has to be real: the qualifier must be genuinely engaged in supervising the work, not renting or leasing use of their license. Requirements vary by state, so you should work with a lawyer to understand what applies to you.
The qualifying agent becomes an employee of the company they qualify, and takes on the supervisory responsibilities their state's licensing board requires. Exact duties and level of involvement vary by state and by agreement between the two parties. That relationship, and its terms, are worked out directly between the qualifier and the company — findQualifier.com isn't a party to it.
findQualifier.com
It's a job board. Qualifiers post a listing advertising their availability to work and license type. Companies post a listing when they need to fill a job opening with a licensed qualifying agent. Both are publicly searchable by state and trade, and anyone can reach out through a listing's contact form. From there, the two parties work out the relationship directly.
No. findQualifier.com doesn't verify license status, employment terms, or any other detail on a listing. That's a deliberate choice — we're a listings platform, not a licensing authority or a background-check service. It's your responsibility to verify a prospective hire's credentials, just as you would for any other employee — your state's public licensing lookup is a good place to start.
No. We publish advertisements and let interested parties contact each other — that's it. We don't match, recommend, screen, or place anyone, and we're not involved in the relationship once the first message is sent.
Premium listings are always shown ahead of Free listings. Within each group, listings are shown by how recently they were created or renewed — each renewal moves a listing back toward the top of its own group, rather than the same ones staying on top indefinitely.
Yes. If you have an active listing, we'll email you as soon as a new listing goes up in your state and trade on the other side of the board — a new employer ad if you're a qualifier, or a new qualifier ad if you're an employer. You can unsubscribe from these alerts at any time without affecting your listing.
Getting Started
Free, or $19/month for Premium. A Free listing goes live immediately, with no payment required — Premium adds priority placement ahead of Free listings. No bidding or lead credits either way. See the Pricing page for details.
Both are fully public, searchable listings — no account required for either. Premium is listed ahead of Free listings in search results. Free costs nothing and never expires on its own; you post, edit, and manage a listing the same way either way.
The platform supports the trades and states currently listed, but we're adding more as demand comes in. If you don't see your trade or state, email support@findqualifier.com and let us know — we'll consider adding it.
Contact & Privacy
No. Your phone number and email are never displayed publicly. Listings show your professional details — license, trade, location, and experience. First contact is made through a form to protect your contact information, then you are free to communicate directly outside of our platform.
Anyone interested in your listing fills out a contact form. For a Premium listing, that message is relayed to you by email immediately. For a Free listing, it's relayed only after the one-time contact fee is paid on both sides — see the next two questions. From there, you decide whether and how to respond — the conversation happens directly between you and them, outside our platform.
Posting is free so the board can grow without an upfront cost, and the $3 fee is what replaces that: paid once, by whoever is actually trying to start a conversation. It's not a recurring charge, and not every $3 contact gets a reply — that's accepted as part of how this works, the same way it would be reaching out to anyone else. Premium listings never charge this fee in either direction.
If you message a Free listing, you pay $3 to send it. The listing owner is then emailed that someone wants to reach them, and they pay their own $3 to unlock and read it — your payment doesn't unlock it for them. If they don't unlock it, you won't hear back, the same as any message that goes unanswered. Messaging a Premium listing has no fee on either side.
Automated spam is blocked by CAPTCHA on the contact form. For manual spam or solicitations unrelated to genuine interest in your listing, every relayed message includes instructions for reporting it — confirmed spam senders are blacklisted from contacting listings again.
Managing Your Listing
Click My Ad in the top corner. You'll be asked for your email address, and we'll send you an email for each active listing containing a secure management link.
From your ad's management page (Manage My Ad), click Upgrade to Premium. You'll go through the same checkout as a new Premium listing, applied to your existing ad.
Click Renew on your ad's management page. It moves your listing back toward the top of the Free listings, the same way a Premium renewal does within Premium listings. Renew becomes available again once a week has passed since you last used it.
Click here, enter your email address, and you'll get a link to your ad's management page. From there, Cancel This Ad stops your Premium subscription — your listing stays live on the Free tier, it isn't removed.
A Free listing has a Delete option on its management page instead of Cancel, since there's no subscription to stop — it removes the listing immediately and can't be undone. A Premium listing is deleted by cancelling first, which drops it to Free, then deleting from there.
No. A Free listing stays live indefinitely until you delete it yourself — there's no automatic expiration.
Support
Email support@findqualifier.com and we'll get back to you.
Every listing has a "Report This Listing" link. Use it to flag anything that looks fraudulent, violates our terms, or attempts to sell, rent, or lease a license rather than offer or seek real employment.