KinTrades is proud to serve Eight24 Solutions — matching its XR-trained skilled-trades graduates with the regional employers hiring across Virginia, D.C., Maryland, and North Carolina. Eight24 gets them job-ready; we open the door to the work.
Eight24 transforms people the labor market overlooked into certified, confident tradespeople — immersive XR training and the human coaching that gets them job-ready. KinTrades makes that investment pay off — matching every graduate with the skilled-trades employers hiring in their region, capturing the work, and proving the outcomes that fund the next cohort. Two demanding jobs; one shared mission to move people into real careers.
Eight24 opens the door to a trade. KinTrades opens the door to the job. Together, that's a career — one graduate at a time.
— The KinTrades team
Eight24 owns training and credentialing. KinTrades owns placement and outcomes. The pieces don't overlap — they hand off at the moment a graduate is job-ready.
The part that transforms a person into a tradesperson.
The part that turns "certified" into "hired."
Share this single link — or its QR code — with any Eight24 cohort. Every graduate who joins KinTrades through it is tagged to Eight24, so their exploration, matches, and placements report back against your cohort.
No special sign-up, no separate app. They land on the same KinTrades every worker uses — the link just quietly remembers where they came from.
Attribution is invisible to the worker and lives in KinComply — Eight24's cohort tag rides along through signup and surfaces only in your reporting.
Give a cohort member the link at certification. From there, the platform does the matching.
The graduate visits kintrades.com/join/eight24 and lands on KinTrades. The Eight24 cohort tag is remembered for them automatically.
They create a standard worker profile and upload the work samples captured during their Eight24 cohort — entering the regional matching pool.
KinTrades surfaces their work to regional employers hiring in their trade. Placements report back against the Eight24 cohort for your funder reporting.
Automated matching to skilled-trades employers actively hiring across VA · DC · MD · NC — the same engine every KinTrades worker uses, no special channel required.
The work captured during an Eight24 cohort becomes a portfolio on KinTrades — proof of skill that employers can see before the first interview.
Because graduates onboard through Eight24's link, placement and outcome data reports back against the cohort — structured for grant applications and funder updates.
Across the four states Eight24 graduates work in, employer demand for skilled trades is outpacing supply. That's the gap KinTrades closes.
Share the link, and every Eight24 graduate steps straight into the regional placement pool. Questions about the partnership? We're one email away.