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Permalink Reply by Steve Richards on July 23, 2010 at 1:10pm

The quality of the 'pool' of candidates offered to a company is the key. The local 'recruiting' companies I'm familiar with seem to be similar to a factory which turns out retreaded tires. This comment is a subjective observation of companies I'm familiar with and is not meant to reflect any feeling or knowledge I have about TK Worldwide, because I have none!

A recruiting service is critical; automobile dealers have a history of hiring people doomed to fail, but other industries have the same issues. Hiring is a combination of exact science and fine art. Few people are good at it and it makes sense to outsource the service. The problem is often the dealership finds "paying" for the service onerous so they instead cost themselves millions by having their ill-prepared management team hire poorly, but cheaply. But, "it's the way it's always been done" so the fiscally devastating practice of hiring in a haphazard manner continues. "Penny wise but pound foolish" is how the Brits describe it I believe.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on July 23, 2010 at 6:49pm

I would agree with your statement with the exception of your (thanks for the disclaimer and excluding my company) blanket statement regarding quality of applicants. I have developed a program to enable the applicant pool to be squeezed down to ONLY the quality few. This is accomplished in part by having the ability to search EVERY job board, and resume in the market. You can't just hit the applicants who apply on your job postings, or who answer your ads in the newspaper. You need to develop a Target Recruitment Marketing Tactic that will ensure quality applicants will end up in your sample pool.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Richards on July 23, 2010 at 8:28pm

Cool, I hope you can help, because help is necessary.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Dubis on July 25, 2010 at 3:38pm

Kevin, thanks for sharing your comments. I agree that our industry can only survive by bringing in and keep top notch, customer focused professionals.

Keep up the good work.

Mark

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Permalink Reply by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on August 26, 2010 at 2:28pm

I agree 100% with that statement, and that's why I developed the program I have called PRI (Proactive Online Recruiting Initiative) It works AWESOME, and eliminates all the problems and headaches the dealers have had in the past even with the processes I've been known to use. If you want to be a believer, simply call my office and I'll explain it to you. It's changing the way dealers recruit people!

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Permalink Reply by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on August 26, 2010 at 2:29pm

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I agree 100% with that statement, and that's why I developed the program I have called PRI (Proactive Online Recruiting Initiative) It works AWESOME, and eliminates all the problems and headaches the dealers have had in the past even with the processes I've been known to use. If you want to be a believer, simply call my office and I'll explain it to you. It's changing the way dealers recruit people!

Steve Richards said:

The quality of the 'pool' of candidates offered to a company is the key. The local 'recruiting' companies I'm familiar with seem to be similar to a factory which turns out retreaded tires. This comment is a subjective observation of companies I'm familiar with and is not meant to reflect any feeling or knowledge I have about TK Worldwide, because I have none!

A recruiting service is critical; automobile dealers have a history of hiring people doomed to fail, but other industries have the same issues. Hiring is a combination of exact science and fine art. Few people are good at it and it makes sense to outsource the service. The problem is often the dealership finds "paying" for the service onerous so they instead cost themselves millions by having their ill-prepared management team hire poorly, but cheaply. But, "it's the way it's always been done" so the fiscally devastating practice of hiring in a haphazard manner continues. "Penny wise but pound foolish" is how the Brits describe it I believe.

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