Does Your Dealership Have the Right Payroll Provider to Reach Your 2018 Goals?
When it comes to talent management, dealers have two main objectives: increase employee productivity and decrease expenditures. An integrated payroll and talent management platform can help you accomplish both by helping your business run more efficiently and cutting down on costs — including automating tax record-keeping and filing and reducing payroll fees.
Now is the Time to Shift from Sales-Focused to Product Specialist Roles
Today’s car buyers are walking into dealerships armed with more information than ever before. The average car shopper spends more than 11 hours researching cars online. Dealership employees are no longer the gatekeepers of all the information consumers need to make a hiring decision.
Podcast: Changing Your Dealership’s Pay Plans
Hireology’s Adam Robinson speaks with us on changing your dealership’s pay plans to attract a new generation of employee. hireology.com
The New Standard for Paying Dealership Employees
To better cater to this growing Millennial workforce, dealers are slowly abandoning the all-or-nothing approach of high-risk/high-reward commission plans. The times are changing, and the rise of cross training and new positions like product specialists is leading to a noticeable shift in pay scales.
Why You Should Care About Your HR Stack
Creating a unified system of HR software can help you improve your hiring practices, build stronger teams and make your dealership more productive.
What Dealerships Can Do to Overcome the Technician Supply Gap
It needs to be apparent for any new technician that there’s a clear career path and their employer is willing to invest time and money in their development.
The Importance of Employment Branding
Employment branding: a company’s reputation as an employer, or how great a place it is to work — a must for today’s prospective employees. Dealerships have always placed a heavy emphasis on attracting consumers and cultivating a company brand for them, but with Millennials now making up the majority of the workforce and consumer base,
Podcast: Promoting from Within Your Dealership
Hireology’s Adam Robinson discusses the benefits of hiring and promoting from within your dealership, and how to make it a success.
FILL OPEN DEALERSHIP POSITIONS BY PROMOTING INTERNAL EMPLOYEES
Each year, the turnover rate for dealerships continues to increase. In 2013, the average dealership saw a 66 percent turnover rate among sales consultants, well above the national average for the private sector of 42 percent. As of 2015, that number has risen to 71 percent. Regardless of the cause, high turnover rates are both
Better Customer Experience Starts With Better Employees
By hiring better-quality employees, your dealership — and your customers — benefit in the long run. Top-quality employees provide a better customer experience, allowing you to inspire repeat customers, referrals and a positive online reputation. Customer experience is increasingly the differentiator between high- and low-performing companies. Especially in the case of new-car dealerships, competition
How Illegal Interview Questions Hurt Your Dealership
As an employer, your focus during the recruitment process should always be on finding the most qualified person to fit a specific role within your organization. We’ve found that dealerships hire the right individual about 50 percent of the time. Simultaneously, the average turnover rate for salespeople at today’s dealerships hovers around 70 percent. When