A veteran staffing website
and a custom ATS.
LockLeed International is a veteran-owned military staffing and executive-search firm in Minneapolis, founded in 2015. We custom-coded the site with separate employer and candidate paths, plus tools aimed at transitioning servicemembers: an MOS skills translator, a resume builder, and an Ask LockLeed assistant. Stonekept also built LockLeed’s custom applicant tracking system (ATS), connecting public job listings and application intake with the team’s internal recruiting workspace.
The brief
LockLeed serves two audiences whose needs barely overlap. Employers arrive wanting a search started and a shortlist, not a stack of resumes. Veterans and transitioning servicemembers arrive looking for open roles, and often need help turning a military record into civilian job language first. One homepage had to hold both without either group reading past the other.
What we built
We split the navigation into an Employers track and a Candidates track, each with its own overview, resources, and calls to action, with Hire Talent in the top nav and a paired Hire Talent / Find a Job action bar. The homepage carries the employer story: placement services, a four-step engagement model, ten industries served, and an FAQ. Candidate tools get their own home: MOS Translator, Resume Builder, MOS Career Guides, and a Base Map.
- Two navigation tracks: Employers gets Overview, Executive Search, Our Process, Industries, Locations and Why Hire Veterans; Candidates gets Browse Open Roles, Career Resources and Veteran Resources.
- MOS Translator: a military-occupation skills translator, linked from the candidate menu in both the header and the footer, next to MOS Career Guides.
- Resume Builder: a candidate-side tool grouped with Veteran Resources, paired with a Submit Your Resume path for people who already have one.
- Ask LockLeed assistant: a built-in assistant labeled Military Placement and Search, carrying a privacy note and a Talk to a human option.
- Four-step engagement model: Requirements Brief, Source and Screen, LockLeed Interview and Client Presentation, each written out as its own numbered step.
- Proof and contact rail: HIRE Vets Medallion 2023 Platinum, Google reviews, LinkedIn and Yelp, plus phone, email and the Minneapolis address in the footer.
Every page is custom-coded and served from Cloudflare's edge, with no WordPress and no plugins to patch. We host it and look after it, and changes are one email away, on a care plan or the hand-off plan. See what a build costs or the rest of the portfolio.
A custom ATS,
built around recruiting.
The website serves employers and jobseekers. Behind it, the recruiting team needs to find the right record, review a person against a role, keep track of conversations and know who follows up next. Stonekept built a custom ATS for that work, alongside the public website and career tools.
From application to follow-up
- Bring the website into the workflow. Public job listings read from the ATS, and website applications feed into it. Recruiters can create, review, publish, edit and close jobs from the workspace. A job order starts as a draft for a person to review before publishing.
- Find the record and its context. A shared search looks across candidates, client contacts, companies and jobs by relevant names, email addresses, phone numbers or job numbers. Candidate records keep resume files with their document history.
- Review candidates against a job. Job requirements can be extracted from the job text and edited by the recruiter. Candidate search shows resume excerpts as evidence. Recruiters save Review, Contact or Pass decisions against the job, with their own reasons.
- Make the next action visible. Follow-ups have an owner and a due time. A Today view brings together assigned work and internal appointments, while linked call, text and email history gives the team context for the next conversation.
Design decisions at the recruiting desk
- Keep the list in view. Side panels open a record without sending the recruiter away from the list they were working through. Contact details stay together, with secondary fields available when needed.
- Show the evidence and leave the decision to a person. Editable criteria and resume excerpts support a recruiter’s review. The system does not make the hiring decision.
- Give each audience its own workspace. The website carries the employer and candidate journeys. Candidate review, communication history and shared follow-up live in the recruiting team’s workspace.
Built by Stonekept, with direct support
Stonekept built the ATS and is the team’s point of contact for access and support. For a similar custom application, we would scope the integrations, hosting and ongoing support around the team’s workflow, separately from website care.
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Worth a closer look
Two paths, one homepage
Employer and candidate journeys each get their own navigation, their own resources and their own calls to action.
Tools for the transition
An MOS translator, a resume builder, MOS career guides and a base map all live on the candidate side.
The Ask LockLeed assistant
A built-in assistant fields placement and search questions, with a privacy note and a handoff to a human.
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