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Helo everybody, I have one question that has bothering me for a long time, how do you guys find emploee/s that you can trust, that would work hard? I will provide training, and will pay a profesional to train some more. I just need it for future, not now. I am in process of training myself.
 
I find someone that has no prior experience in detailing and a great work ethic and train them myself. This assures that a) they don't come on thinking they already know everything about detailing, and b) they weren't trained incorrectly by someone else thinking they know everything about detailing.
 
I honestly have had more success in finding staff through word of mouth and advertising from free on Kijiji or Craigslist than anything else. I also almost never hire so called experienced detailers. Easier for me to find people with a good attitude and work ethic and train them then to hire a know it all that worked at a car dealership for a few months. I used to blow a ton of money on newspaper help wanted ads and imho it was a complete waste of time and more importantly money. I get all my resumes e-mailed to me which makes things easy for me and the applicants
 
todd@bsaw said:
I find someone that has no prior experience in detailing and a great work ethic and train them myself. This assures that a) they don't come on thinking they already know everything about detailing, and b) they weren't trained incorrectly by someone else thinking they know everything about detailing.
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:2thumbs: Great minds think alike. Canèt tell you how many guys have come in here running their mouth about all their experience and cant wash a car properly
 
It has been a while since I've hired or trained anybody (work solo now), but that is the truth. If someone tells me they worked at a dealership as a detailer their resume goes immediately into the circular file.
 
todd@bsaw said:
If someone tells me they worked at a dealership as a detailer their resume goes immediately into the circular file.
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I wouldn't discount someone for this until I interviewed them. There's lots of good people that work at dealerships. I actually know of a few dealer owners, GSMs & GMs that actually got their start in the prep/detail department.
 
todd@bsaw said:
Maybe I was exaggerating a little bit or being too facetious. :D
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My head guy actually started at a dealership but in 16 years of operation almost every guy we have gotten from a dealer didn't know their *** from a hole in the ground and thought they were God's gift. It's not the person's fault - dealers don't typically spend a great deal of time and energy training staff properly in their detail departments.
 
In my town we have a web site (YUWIN - Yukon WorkinfoNet) where more or less ALL jobs are posted for the entire city, territorial government excluded. It's free to list, so that's what we use, never had to go to the newspaper or radio....
 
you hit it right on the money ..



todd@bsaw said:
I find someone that has no prior experience in detailing and a great work ethic and train them myself. This assures that a) they don't come on thinking they already know everything about detailing, and b) they weren't trained incorrectly by someone else thinking they know everything about detailing.
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Look for people that have no experience with auto detailing. Design a foolproof and efficient process, and teach it to your employees. Train one guy or girl, to do one thing really well; such as the interior. Make sure to do an extensive interview. IMO, this is the best way to judge a person's character. You want people that work well with others, and understand teamwork.
 
I was kind of playing with this too--I was thinking for those who said they had detailing experience--maybe I would have a hood from a junkyard that I would have people practice or test new products/techniques that they can show me what they got--and ask them things like for instances to see how they'd handle it etc...



Kind of curious to see how this convo pans out
 
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