Every graduate, introduced to the career they trained for.
No cost to your school. No cost to your graduates. Prax is a placement partner for trade schools, paid only by the employers who hire. Alix and Jessica work beside your career office, or become it.
Start a partnership conversation
A letter to the people who train the trades.
Your students spend months learning to wire a panel, braze a line set, and read a print. The hard part shouldn’t be the first job. Jessica led hiring across more than 35 locations for a restoration and construction company, and Alix spent nearly three years in its commercial accounts. We know what employers in these trades look for.
We’d like to be your partner in what happens after graduation. We’ll learn your programs, meet your students one by one, and introduce each of them to an employer we’d put our names behind. Then we’ll keep checking in, long after the first paycheck.
Alix and Jessica, founders of Prax
Three ways to partner.
Every school is different. The partnership takes the shape your career office needs.
Beside your team
If you have a career office, we work hand in hand with your director and bring the employer relationships and introductions your office doesn’t have yet.
Extra hands at graduation
If a cohort outgrows one office, we take on a share of your students and place them as carefully as our own candidates.
Your placement office
If you don’t have a placement office, we run placement end to end, from the first student conversation to the 90-day check-in.
What the first term looks like
Learn the school
In weeks 1 and 2, we visit campus, meet your career team and instructors, sit in on the shop, and learn each program and graduation date.
Map programs to careers
In weeks 3 and 4, we build a one-page map from each of your programs to the roles employers are hiring for now.
Get students jobsite-ready
From week 5, we run workshops on trade résumés and interviews, and meet one on one with every graduating student.
Make introductions
From week 8, we hold an Introduction Day on campus with hiring employers, then introduce students one by one, explaining the fit to both sides.
Stay invested
After graduation, we check in with every graduate we place at 30, 60, and 90 days, and send your school a term-end report: who was placed, where, and how they’re doing.
Where your programs lead.
An example of the map we build with each school. Commercial real estate is the path most schools miss: every building needs people who can keep its systems running.
HVAC and Refrigeration
MEP service technician Controls apprentice Building engineer
In commercial real estate, HVAC graduates keep office towers and hospitals running as building engineers.
Electrical
Electrical apprentice MEP field technician Engineering technician
Commercial property teams hire electrical graduates as engineering technicians.
Facilities Maintenance
MRO technician Maintenance technician Industrial maintenance
Property management companies hire maintenance graduates across whole portfolios.
Plumbing
Plumbing apprentice MEP service technician Restoration technician
Restoration firms hire plumbing graduates for water-loss work.
Welding
Structural welder Industrial fabrication MRO welder
Industrial and MRO employers hire welders for maintenance as well as new work.
Proudly placed, market by market.
- or more: the locations she hired across
- 35
- Jessica Walker · BMS CAT · 2025–2026
- permanent professional hires in nine months
- 45
- Jessica Walker · BMS CAT · Jan–Sep 2026
- reduction in average time to fill
- 42%
- Jessica Walker · BMS CAT
Markets where Jessica has built teams
Atlanta Austin Boston Charlotte Chicago College Station Colorado Springs Columbus Dallas–Fort Worth Denver Detroit Houston Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Orlando Phoenix Pittsburgh Raleigh San Antonio San Francisco Tampa Washington, D.C.
Jessica Walker’s results as National Recruiter at Blackmon Mooring & BMS CAT, 2025 to 2026. Markets as listed on the BMS CAT locations page (read 2026-11-04). Prax places graduates in commercial real estate, construction, MEP, MRO, and the skilled trades.
Questions schools ask
What does a partnership cost?
Nothing, for your school or your graduates. Employers pay Prax when they hire.
Will you replace our career office?
Only if you want us to. Most often we work beside your team.
Which programs do you place?
Construction, MEP, MRO, facilities, and the skilled trades, plus the commercial real estate roles that need them.
Where are the jobs?
Wherever our employer clients are hiring. Before Prax, Jessica built teams in markets from Boston to Los Angeles.
What do we get at the end of a term?
A placement report: who was placed, where, in what role, and how they’re doing at 90 days.
How do we start?
A conversation with Alix or Jessica, then a campus visit.
Write to Alix or Jessica.
Tell us about your school, your programs, and roughly how many students graduate each year. Alix or Jessica will follow up.
General questions: connect@praxagency.com