How to hire a home service consultant

How to hire a home service consultant, step by step

Here's a step-by-step home service consultant hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a home service consultant job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new home service consultant
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   First, determine the employments status of the home service consultant you need to hire. Certain home service consultant roles might require a full-time employee, whereas others can be done by part-time workers or contractors.

   Determine employee vs contractor status

   Is the person you're thinking of hiring a US citizen or green card holder?

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   No

   A home service consultant's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, home service consultants from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   The following list breaks down different types of home service consultants and their corresponding salaries.

   Type of Home Service Consultant	Description	Hourly rate
   Home Service Consultant		$16-41
   Navigator	Navigators are responsible for a ship or aircraft's navigation requiring positional awareness. Their duties include mapping out for the journey, avoiding any hazards during travel, and advising the captain or commander on estimated time en route to the destination... Show more	$13-25
   Sales Coordinator	A sales coordinator is primarily responsible for managing a sales team, ensuring that all workforce members are functioning efficiently and are achieving the sales targets. For this, a sales coordinator must arrange strategic schedules, provide necessary support materials to each member, and devise plans that would help the team gain more sales... Show more	$14-24

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Real Estate
   • In-Home
   • Home Health
   • Product Knowledge
   • Customer Satisfaction
   • Quality Customer Service
   • Punctuality
   • Care Services
   • Model Homes
   • Inventory Homes
   • Mental Health
   • Community Resources
   • Inbound Calls
   • TV

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   Responsibilities:

   • Achieve high sales percentage with consultative, value-focuse customer service approach.
   • Utilize CRM systems to effectively manage accounts; leverage competitor and market intelligence to drive offer posture and capture competitor accounts.
   • Position apply for are window sales rep, however are assigned to HVAC sales dept.
   • Conduct market research and cold calls to identify prospective area homeowners and schedule in-home presentations.
   • Work closely with senior management to address future goals, objectives, and reporting.
   • Understand and be able to walk customer through different TV, internet, and home security portals.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your home service consultant job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A home service consultant salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, home service consultants' average salary in maine is 40% less than in maryland.
   • Seniority. Entry-level home service consultants earn 59% less than senior-level home service consultants.
   • Certifications. A home service consultant with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a home service consultant's salary.

   Average home service consultant salary

   $55,714yearly

   $26.79 hourly rate

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   Entry-level home service consultant salary

   $35,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 19, 2026

4. Writing a home service consultant job description

   A good home service consultant job description should include a few things:

   • Summary of the role
   • List of responsibilities
   • Required skills and experience

   Including a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager is also appreciated by candidates. Here's an example of a home service consultant job description:

   Home service consultant job description example

   Our story
   At Alight, we believe a company's success starts with its people. It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team's expertise in human insights and cloud technology, allows companies and employees around the world to transform and thrive.
   With a competitive total rewards package, continuing education and training and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
   
   Alight Solutions are currently recruiting for a Workday HCM Consultant within our Cloud Optimisation Practice area. We have an ever expanding business pipeline in EMEA and are seeking suitably skilled and interested candidates to help us build our practice in line with the growth of the Workday ecosystem in Europe.
   As a Workday Functional Consultant you will play a key role as part of an industry-leading team, helping to drive results for our clients by delivering innovative and effective solutions within our Professional Services business group.Location is primarily home-based or office based (depending on the area), with travel to client sites (up to 25%) Our Values: Champion people, Grow with purpose and Be Alight
   
   Your impact as a Consultant
   Become a hands-on subject matter expert in Workday HCM, specializing and deepening your skill set within one or more functional areas Work closely with the client to understand their post go-live requirements to design, build, configure and test the Workday solution, with support from the Lead Functional Consultant on your team Play an active role in your area of expertise, a point of reference for sharing knowledge and information with colleagues, collaborating to improve internal capability, including training and mentoring of new team members Build an excellent rapport with Cloud Optimisation clients, guiding and assisting them on getting the most from their Workday deployment Develop strong and trusting relationships with other members of the project team and management as well as external clients Bring insights from your product and industry knowledge, by being innovative and keeping well informed on HR and Financials business landscape Understand and apply Workday and Alight methodologies Contribute to Alight's financial performance by delivering excellence to our clients and managing your work on several concurrent projects
   
   Your Skills and Qualifications should reflect our values and will include:
   Excellent oral and written communications skills - fully fluent English is a pre-requisite for this role Advanced analytical and functional skills evidenced by playing a role in projects or in a support environment Workday HCM CertificateExposure to the maintenance and enhancement of HR Systems (post go-live) Exposure to the deployment of HR Systems (Ideally Workday or alternatively, PeopleSoft, Oracle or similar applications) Consultancy experience of HR processes is desirable Excellent presentation and facilitation skills, a clear ability to ‘consult' for and with your clients Experience of confidently managing stakeholders Evidence of collaboration and contribution in your previous work environments Ideally, experience working on multiple concurrent projects Ideally, experience playing a key role in virtual teams Ability to act with integrity Able to self-manage confidently, with good personal productivity and self-motivation
   In return, you will be offered extensive training and development including Workday accreditation, opportunity to work on a variety of challenging projects, and an outlet to develop subject matter specialism and consultancy skills.
   We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
   DISCLAIMER:
   Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
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5. Post your job

   There are a few common ways to find home service consultants for your business:

   • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your home service consultant job on Zippia to find and recruit home service consultant candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites such as salesjobs, salesheads, allretailjobs.com, sales trax.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting home service consultants requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new home service consultant

   Once you've found the home service consultant candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   To prepare for the new home service consultant first day, you should share an onboarding schedule with them that covers their first period on the job. You should also quickly complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Finally, Human Resources must ensure a new employee file is created for internal record keeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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