Shout out to @Mark Ierubino of Mark's Auto Service in Gillette, NJ for hiring an Auto Technician! Great work!

Congratulations to FLA Semi Truck & Trailer Repair for hiring service advisors for their Tampa AND Orlando locations! WOW!

Congratulations to Elite Automotive in Covington, KY for hiring not ONE, but TWO techs for their shop! We are happy to be a part of your growth!

Congratulations to Champion CARSTAR in Highstown, NJ for hiring a paint prepper for the shop! Thanks @Paul Edgcomb for letting us help get you staffed up!

Our presentation on How To Find A-Players For Your Shop On Demand: Without Spending Thousands On Indeed And Waiting Months For The Right Candidates To Apply is about to begin. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88228305720 Click the link to join!

We are so excited to have you join us for our free training, How To Find A-Players For Your Shop On Demand: Without Spending Thousands On Indeed And Waiting Months For The Right Candidates To Apply, coming Thursday, May 4th at 10am PT. The passive + active recruiting blueprint we will walk you through is simple, proven, and proactive, when it comes to taking the pain out of sourcing high-quality employees for your shop and keeping your business fully staffed. And let's be honest....we need simple and proven, right? A few important things you need to know before the training: 1. You can access the event through our event calendar. Or use this link to join. 2. You will want to plan on at least an hour and a half (90 minutes) for this presentation. 3. During the training we will be sharing lots of tools and strategies including the Ultimate Technician Ad Checklist, but you can get a jump on it by downloading your own checklist here. 4. Make a solid plan now to attend the training: clear your schedule so you can attend uninterrupted. Make sure you are in a place with a good wifi connection. Grab some snacks and your favorite drink. Make sure you have a good notebook for those "ah-ha" moments. 5. There will be a replay offered if you have to miss the live presentation. We will send the replay link out right after Chris finishes teaching. It will be available for 7 days. 6. Check your time zone. Chris will be broadcasting at 10am from US Pacific Time on Thursday. Click Here for a time zone converter. If you have additional questions, please leave a comment below.

Did you know that using the skills assessment on a regular basis can help you close the revolving door so you retain your technicians longer? About a year ago McKinsey & Company did a survey of employees around the world and came up with the most common reasons why people quit their last job. You can view the infographic of the study results here: WHY PEOPLE ARE QUITTING THEIR JOBS Here’s how the list breaks down: 1. Lack of career development/advancement 2. Inadequate compensation 3. Uncaring/uninspiring leaders 4. Lack of meaningful work 5. Unsustainable work expectations 6. Unreliable/unsupportive colleagues 7. Lack of workplace flexibility 8. Lack of support for health/well-being Do you notice anything about this list? At least 6 of these items can be directly impacted by performing regular skills assessments! Here are some examples: Additional training opportunities and personal skills development areas can be determined. Compensation can be adjusted to current skill levels. Highlighting areas of potential improvement and putting together a plan to get there shows you care about the growth of your team members. We talk a lot about finding and hiring technicians because that’s what we do here at Technician Find. But don’t you think it would be better not to lose your good techs in the first place?

Do your potential hires have the skills to pay the bills? Do your current techs have the skills to pay the bills? One of the shop owners in the Technician Find community posted recently asking if anyone had a technician skills survey that they would be willing to share. He went on to say that the survey he was currently using was outdated and didn’t accurately reflect the current level of his techs. Shawn Gilfillan over at Automotive Magic was able to help him out by posting the comprehensive technician skills checklist that he uses to evaluate techs at his two automotive repair shops. He also, very generously, offered his mobile number and to hop on a call to share how his team uses it. He also mentioned that he has a few other ways/tools they evaluate employees & potential hires. That’s the kind of stuff that goes on here in the Technician Find Community. You can view the conversation and download your own copy of the skills checklist here: SKILLS SURVEY FOR TECHNICIANS

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein Do you ever feel like you've done everything possible to find a good tech? Not only have you done everything that you could think of but you've done everything that your colleagues and the "experts" have told you that you should do. And when you come up short, what do you do next? If you're like most shops, you start over from the beginning and do everything that you know doesn't work all over again! Hey, no judgement here. It's just human nature. But when you're running a business, you need a better strategy for winning. What if you had a proven game plan for handling the top 7 mistakes that independent shop owners make when looking for technicians? Not just someone pointing out that you aren't getting results with your current strategy but actual, practical, workable solutions for the top mistakes that prevent most shops from starting conversations with good technicians and getting them to apply consistently. Well, you're in luck! Chris had a great chat with Rick Selover on his podcast Mind-Wrench about the top mistakes most shops make when looking for technicians and what to do about them. Rick is a great guy and he's also a skilled business coach so he knows how to ask the right questions to get you thinking in terms of results. Here's a sneak peek of what they covered: What is the most important thing that you can mention in your ads no matter what position you are hiring for? How can you create help wanted ads that deliver the right message to prospective employees? How do you tell a story about your shop that attracts technicians? How do you find techs who are employed and aren't actively looking for work? What does it take to be successful finding technicians on social media? Why is throwing more money at job boards a losing proposition? What is the best way to make sure that you don't find yourself in a pinch when an employee quits on you unexpectedly? And much more...

LIVE EVENT APRIL 19-21 IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA The vast majority of small business owners have very little freedom. Most have very little free time, but they will justify their decisions because they feel like they're in control of it. Think about the great entrepreneurs throughout history. All of them were able to create an impact on the world through their business because they were able to build systems, processes, and routines around what they did well. We want you to be able to do the same thing! I’ve been asked to speak at an event next month and I’m pretty excited about it because I think that it can help you take the next steps toward breaking out of this cycle. This is the point where you finally reach escape velocity and break out of the rat race of working in the business to working on the business. REACH YOUR SHOP GOALS IN 2023! The Shop Management Alliance Annual Conference is an inspirational three day event in Orlando, FL that will help you get supercharged to exceed your shop goals in 2023. Here’s a quick sample of what you will take away from the event: Learn The Technician Find Mindset And 8-Step Proven Process for Finding & Keeping Good Technicians * Generate solid resumes on demand. * Keep your shop fully staffed, efficient and profitable. * Leverage social media to find techs who aren’t looking for work. A Simple Life Calibration Tool for Overextended Shop Owners To Help Them Gain More Fulfillment, Clarity And Perspective. * Get your life back! * Zoom out and gain more clarity, focus and reignite passion for the individual aspects of your life. * Build a personal roadmap for an outstanding life. Ramp Up Your Team’s Emotional Intelligence * Enhance communication among your team members and customers. * Build more efficient operations with less drama and better customer satisfaction. * Improve morale and get more productivity out of your team. Build A High-Performance Self-Managing Team * Step away from the day-to-day operation of your shop without guilt or fear.

Hi gang, can someone please tell me where I might find the file of the job description/check list? thank you

As you already know, we love to help independent automotive and diesel shops find and hire good technicians faster. Up until now, the team has been doing this via our done for you VIP service, YouTube video training, and the free online communities (skool and Facebook). Currently, we are working on a whole new project that’s going to enable me to help even more shops find technicians faster and close the revolving door, so they stay longer. It’s called the Technician Find Full Staff Forum and it’s going to be a premium online membership resource with the goal of providing growing independent repair shops with everything they need to find good staff faster and keep them longer. We are really excited to get this out into the world and are working hard behind the scenes to get everything ready! But while it’s not quite time to open the doors yet, we did want to let you know that it’s coming and give you the chance to be the first to know when we launch. So, if you’d like to join the wait list for some sneak peeks and the first chance to join (and access to our best ever price!) then all you need to do is click here Technician Find Full Staff Forum. And if you have any thoughts on what you’d like to see in the Technician Find Full Staff Forum, please let us know!

1- Interstate Auto Care- Madison Heights, Michigan 2- Haven't formally needed to search for a tech in years, and looking forward to finding just the right additions to our team as we grow in 2023. 3- We found our last tech when he came in for a wheel alignment. He worked at a local dealership as a GS and we struck up a conversation. One week later, he was hired on as a GS and earned his spot as a C tech within 3 months. 6 months later, he earned his first ASE cert and was moved up to a light B tech.