Better connections start before the job opening.
Eleven Ventures keeps an ongoing network between skilled technicians and vetted employers. Both sides get to understand experience, priorities and fit long before someone urgently needs to hire — or urgently needs a job.
Most hiring starts with a problem. This starts earlier.
Traditional recruiting begins the day something breaks: a bay sits empty, or a technician decides they're done. Everyone rushes, and both sides make a decision on partial information. Eleven Ventures keeps visibility running in both directions all the time, so when the moment arrives you're choosing between people you already know.
Technicians
See how shops run, what they pay for, and who they promote — before applying anywhere.
Hiring Partners
Follow technicians as they grow, and know who fits your floor long before you post a role.
Stop starting every technician search from zero.
- Access a vetted technician network
- View technician skills, experience and availability
- Understand work style and career priorities
- Identify better cultural and behavioral alignment
- Build relationships before hiring becomes urgent
- Predictable flat-fee membership instead of per-hire fees
Build your career before you need your next job.
- Free technician membership
- Build a professional technician profile
- Explore vetted employers
- Understand your behavioral and work-style strengths
- Control when you are open to opportunities
- Access career development and industry community
Fit is more than skills on a resume.
We combine behavioral assessments, personal interviews, stated career priorities and real company culture information to show where a technician and an employer genuinely line up. Nothing here decides who gets hired — no algorithm screens anyone out. It's a development tool for technicians and a judgment aid for employers, and people stay in charge of the conversation.
Communication style
How you give and take direction on a busy floor.
Work environment
Bay, field, shop, plant — where you actually do your best work.
Autonomy
How much room you want between check-ins.
Leadership preferences
Who you want to work for, and whether you want to lead.
Career priorities
Pay, schedule, training, stability, growth — in your own order.
Team dynamics
Crew-driven, independent, or somewhere in between.
See who's out there. Know who fits.
LightBoard is where the network becomes visible. Hiring Partners explore technician profiles. Technicians explore employer profiles. Same board, both directions.
Technician profiles
Marcus T.
Master Diesel Technician · 14 yrs
Elena R.
Industrial Electrician · 9 yrs
David W.
HVAC Service Lead · 17 yrs
Company profiles
Northfield Fleet Group
Regional diesel fleet · 240 techs
Arbor Valley Mechanical
Commercial HVAC · 60 techs
A network people actually participate in.
A database sits still. A network moves. Membership means showing up to things worth showing up to.
Employer showcases
Shops open the doors and show how they actually run.
Online education
Technical and career sessions built for working technicians.
Career development
Coaching on the next step, not just the next job.
Industry conversations
Real talk about pay, tooling, schedules and shop culture.
Career fairs
Trade school and college events across the network.
Networking
Meet the people you'd actually want to work with.
Four steps, either side.
For Technicians
- 1Join
- 2Build your profile
- 3Complete your assessment
- 4Explore employers and opportunities
For Hiring Partners
- 1Become a partner
- 2Build your company profile
- 3Explore the technician network
- 4Connect when there is mutual interest
Build your network before you need it.
Know the technician before you hire them. Know the company before you join them.