Its hard to find good help

[tmundal]

Need a counter guy (Toyota, ADP, Portland metro area)

Its amazing how many applications we can get, but nobody is even close to what we are looking for. Given up on both toyota and adp, now just need someone who has worked dealership parts and can fog a mirror...but even those qualifications are getting hard to find.

If anyone knows anybody...

[GM2FOCUS]

I was stolen from my current dealer many times in the seventies and eighties, the carrot that made me switch was always a bigger payday!

Had a great time at a Paul Revere & The Raiders concert Saturday, Good Luck.

[partking]

The most successful of us promote up from the support positions (driver, stock clerk, etc.). The time in the support role gives us a chance to evaluate the employee's work ethic, reliability, smarts and the ability to play well with others. The business that advances its people generates a good rep in the area for treating employees well and that attracts good applicants. Employees who have been promoted are generally more loyal and stick around. If they are smart, you can teach them the DMS and the catalog easily enough. Hire for attitude, teach skills.
Stealing people by offering more money generally pisses off your existing people when they find out you are paying the new guy more than them. And you just get into bidding wars with your competitors that hurt everyone.
On the other hand, other dealers' drivers are poachable. If one has been picking up or dropping off stuff and has made a good impression, why not try to grab him/her and move everyone else up one rung?

[Denise Trimble]

We actually got a new office manager by asking our ADP rep, many years ago.

Good luck.

[partking]

Good idea Denise. I got my best ever job off a referral / recommendation from a R&R rep.