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Developing Tomorrow’s Staff
12/1/2007
Can shop owners expect qualified entry-level technicians to rain from the sky and land on their doorsteps anytime soon? Maybe...when pigs fly! Perhaps that will happen sooner than you think.
I know one thing: If entry-leve...
A Few Good Techs
12/1/2006
The opportunities for automotive service technicians trained to repair today’s sophisticated vehicles have increased dramatically and, due to consumer demand and the advanced skills required to do the job, well-train...
Technical Feature, Ignorance Is More Expensive
6/1/2006
Last year, I was hired by Holmes Body Shop to set up training and quality control procedures for the company. About a week into the job, I inspected a vehicle that had new front end structural parts installed with plug weld...
Mentoring Works
9/1/2005
Mentor noun — a wise and trusted adviser
That’s how Webster’s defines the word “mentor.” But what does mentoring really mean to the collision repair industry?
First of all, mento...
23 Steps to Prepare a Used Quarter Panel
6/1/2005
by Toby Chess and March Taylor
The words "used quarter panel" strike fear into the hearts of most collision repairers, but they sound great at the higher echelons of the insurance industry. Most repairers out there in co...
Send Me Your Best Student: Partnering with Vo -Tech Schools
5/1/2004
Ring, ring, ring!
"ABC Tech Center Automotive Program, may I help you?" asks collision repair instructor Pat Peterson.
"Yes, this is Joe Smith at City Collision Center. I just had a tech quit today and have an opening...
What a Tech Wants: Dealership Over an Independent
5/1/2004
I seem to regularly meet collision repairmen who have a preference for one type of shop or another. Some techs spend a large portion of their careers in dealership body shops, while some tend to favor independently owned fa...
Training Techs: A Guide for the Do-It-Yourselfer
6/1/2003
Our workforce is incredibly knowledgeable, skilled and talented. But this didn't just happen. Someone had to train them; someone had to be their instructor or mentor.
The ways people learned the craft are probably as vari...
National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation's Web Site
5/1/2003
Most young people aren't knocking down the doors of shops, wanting to dedicate their lives to a career in collision repair.
But what about the ones who are? What about the ones who do want to enter this profession? Where ca...
Web Browser: Mentors at Work
11/1/2002
Currently this industry loses seven out of 10 apprentice candidates in the first 18 months and once they leave, they often leave the auto industry for good. Collision shops, insurers, mechanical shops and dealerships cannot a...
Web Browser: Training
10/1/2002
But what if it weren’t such a process? What if I told you that I-CAR has taken the guesswork - and the hassles - out of training by redesigning their Web site and making it easier for you to find all the answers you need? (Al...
Let Your People Grow
6/1/2002
A shop owner whose operation's sales had doubled over a three-year period was looking for outside help to advise him on how to regain the high quality and service levels his shop had delivered when it was smaller. During ...
May the (Work) Force Be with You
5/1/2002
During the time of the Galactic Civil War, Jedi were nearly extinct. Though Jedi candidates were normally taken into the order as infants, desperate times called for desperate measures. Two Jedi survivors, Obi-Wan Kenobi and ...
The Case of the Disappearing Tech
4/1/2002
"Youth today don't consider this field as an option for a career, and the older workers don't want to improve their education. What can shop owners do?" - Davina Irene Gongora, assistant manager, Gongora's Body & Pain...
Nature Vs. Nurture
1/1/2002
As the disparity between mechanical labor rates and collision repair rates continues to grow, collision repair shop owners and operators are striving to make their businesses more and more efficient in an attempt to maint...
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