About

Founder
About Matthew Sorensen

Recruiting professional with over 15 years placing skilled trades talent across commercial and industrial environments, and the founder of FridgeJobs.com.

Background: 15+ years in skilled trades recruiting · Founder, Candidate Club · Author of four books on hiring and interviewing · Host of the Hired podcast
The Problem

Why FridgeJobs Exists

Refrigeration technicians face the same hiring problem that commercial electricians, HVAC techs, and other trades professionals have dealt with for years. General job boards treat them as an afterthought.

  • Roles get buried under thousands of unrelated postings.
  • Candidates get overlooked because the search filters were never built for the trade.
  • Employers waste time sorting through irrelevant applicants.

Matthew built FridgeJobs.com to solve that, bringing the same niche job board model he has applied across the trades to the refrigeration industry specifically. That means a board that understands the difference between a refrigeration tech and an HVAC tech, and one that surfaces the roles a rack tech or ammonia operator actually wants to see.

Track Record

What Came Before

01
Candidate Club

An interview preparation platform that partnered with 37 state workforce agencies and departments of corrections to help job seekers land roles faster.

02
Four Books on Hiring

Written for both sides of the table, covering how hiring decisions actually get made and how candidates can prepare for them.

03
The Hired Podcast

Ranks in the top 0.5% of career podcasts worldwide, with over 1,000 ratings on Spotify.

04
Press & Media

Work featured in SHRM, ABC News, and across dozens of career and workforce media outlets.

Approach

Built Around The Trade

FridgeJobs.com exists because refrigeration professionals deserve a dedicated hiring resource built around their trade, not a general platform with a search filter.

What That Looks Like In Practice

Refrigeration-Only Job Listings
Job Board

Commercial, industrial, rack, chiller, and cold storage roles. No sifting through unrelated postings to find them.

Career Guides Written For Techs
Content

Certification paths, licensing by state, and pay benchmarks, covering topics like EPA 608 certification in the detail the trade requires.

Free Career Tools
Tools

Resume writers, interview question generators, and a salary estimator. See the full set of free career tools for refrigeration technicians.

Employer Hiring Support
Employers

A candidate pool that already works in refrigeration, so postings reach techs instead of general applicants.

Looking For Work?

Browse refrigeration roles posted by employers who are hiring right now.

Browse Jobs

Hiring Techs?

Reach refrigeration technicians directly instead of fishing in a general talent pool.

Post A Job