Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry's Blog (17)

In Their Own Words: How companies like careerbuilder are lowering your dealership's expectations and over charging for inferior services

When I read these questions on the Careerbuilder site http://personified.com/faq (Frequently Asked Questions) this is what I see. Their FAQ section should stand for Frequently Averted Qualities!



Question:

Why doesn't Source and Screen offer a guarantee on a hire?

Answer: Because if you don't hire the people…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on December 4, 2014 at 9:56am — No Comments

How To Hire Auto Technicians In An Aggressive/Competitive Market

If I've heard this once I've heard it 1,000 times. "We've tried all the traditional means to find techs, from dangling 'We're hiring Techs' banners out front, to newspaper ads, to radio spots, to online job postings, to auto specific job boards. We've even tried offering finder's fees to our internal employees, but we JUST CAN'T FIND ANY TECHNICIANS AND NOW we just…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on December 4, 2014 at 9:30am — No Comments

Don't "ABANDON" Your Dealer "SHIP" When It Comes To Recruiting (pt 1)

Calling all OEM Field Factory Reps, 20 Group Leaders, Dealer Group Platform Executive Managers, Dealer Counsel Members, National Training Directors, Regional VPs, Distributorship District Managers, Fixed and Variable Ops Directors!

Don't abandon your dealerships when it comes to recruiting. THEY need your help and YOU need their focus on selling and…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on December 4, 2014 at 9:30am — No Comments

CRM (Customer Relationship Management Software) doesn't work, UNLESS...

CRM Companies are engaged in an immense battle over market share, but then aren't we all in one form or another? He who has the most customers wins! Or so that's how it would be if simply HAVING them was enough. As each CRM company dives deeply into the data, hoping to extract their next golden goose, the blogs, articles, and paid press releases fly around the nation. They started out by talking about "capturing the data" moved on to "garbage in garbage out" then "big data" and are now…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on June 18, 2014 at 8:00pm — No Comments

How to effectively utilize craigslist to advertise for open positions, AND why should I bother?

These simple questions and answers will help you see the light!

Q: How much traffic does craigslist get?

A: More than 50 billion page views per month

Q: How many people use craigslist?

A: More than 60 million each month in the US alone

Q: What languages does craigslist support?

A: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Q: How many classified ads does craigslist…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on June 10, 2014 at 11:30pm — 6 Comments

How To Eliminate Dealership Staffing Shortages and Recruiting Challenges for your group of dealerships on the Executive Management Level.

Part 1 of 4

By leveraging the estimated recruiting needs by your total number of dealerships you can substantially reduce the cost that each dealership pays for recruitment advertising while simultaneously increasing each dealership’s profitability.

 

Three of the primary benefits each dealership will gain are as follows:

 

  1. Bulk Rate…
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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on June 9, 2014 at 11:51am — No Comments

Recruiting Talent the RIGHT way for your dealership

Recruiting Talent The RIGHT Way For Your Dealership 

(by Kevin Bradberry (President/CEO) TK Worldwide)



Two of the hottest topics in the auto industry this year are online reputation and recruiting. Hiring the wrong recruiting company can ruin your dealership’s reputation and cost you BIG!



There are several different ways to go about recruiting talent for your dealership, but the most effective way, aside from strong grass- roots efforts, is to…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on June 4, 2014 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

The wave of the future for automotive recruiting has just hit the beach. Four things you MUST know to ride that wave!

Whether you're looking for a management job, sales job, job training, any position in a dealership, or you're a dealer or dealer manager seeking to hire the right talent. It's imperative to work with the right recruiting entity. Use a company where the core motivation is to fill the order for the dealership. There is a difference between executive placement, and head hunter services. There is also a difference between recruiting companies, and staffing agencies. There are also…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on March 23, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Press Release - TK Worldwide Provides Recruiting and Training Solutions for Auto Retailers

12/09/2011 - TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 9 2011 -- One of the biggest challenges for auto retailers is to recruit, train and retain top notch professional managers…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on December 9, 2011 at 9:43am — No Comments

Best Practices in Interviewing (Interesting Article)

We all know how litigious our society has become in the area of employment-related issues. Every recruiter, hiring manager, executive, and department manager must realize that asking illegal interview questions or making improper inquiries can lead to discrimination or wrongful-discharge lawsuits, and these suits can be won or lost based on statements made during the interview process.

Thus, it is important to incorporate risk management into your interviewing process to help minimize…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on January 26, 2011 at 3:47pm — 1 Comment

Why do people "Like" your facebook page? Someone Emailed this to me. Thought I would share it. Source Unknown.

But I could discover throughout my held trainings and seminars that we as dealers very rarely know about the motives of consumers, why they are following us or a brand – why do they like us. What make fans and followers click?

A recent conducted research of Co-Tweet and ExactTarget came closer to provide an answer. The following motives and answers will possibly help dealerships to adjust their engagement level on Social Media Networks. It will help us further in creating new…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on January 19, 2011 at 9:02am — No Comments

100 Potential Interview Questions.

100 Potential Interview Questions



* Tell me about yourself.

* What are your strengths?

* What are your weaknesses?

* Who was your favorite manager and why?

* What kind of personality do you work best with and why?

* Why do you want this job?

* Where would you like to be in your career five years from now?

* Tell me about your proudest achievement.

* If you were at a business lunch and you ordered a rare steak and they brought it to you well… Continue

Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on November 19, 2010 at 3:01pm — 3 Comments

Press Release - How To Recruit Train and Maintain

TK Worldwide Provides Recruiting and Training Solutions for Auto Retailers



Tampa, Florida; Nov 2010: One of the biggest challenges for auto retailers is to recruit, train and retain top notch professional managers and employees.

TK Worldwide, one of the premier recruiting firms in the automotive market has developed and fine tuned programs to do just that for their clients.

Kevin Bradberry, the President of TK Worldwide said, “Our organization’s geographical reach and high… Continue

Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on November 3, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

86 Ways to Say, "Good Job!"

1. Good for you!

2. That’s really nice

3. Superb

4. That’s the best ever

5. You did that very well

6. That’s great!

7. You’ve got it made

8. Way to go!

9. Terrific

10. That’s the way to do it!

11. That’s not bad!

12. That’s quite an improvement

13. Couldn’t have done it better myself

14. Good thinking

15. Marvelous

16. You really are going to town

17. You’re doing fine

18. Keep up the good work

19. You’re… Continue

Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on October 29, 2010 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments

Eliminate Turnover in 3 Simple Steps

Eliminate Employee Turnover with 3 Simple Steps



Foster Employee Loyalty Using Proven Techniques



Ever wonder how successful companies inspire loyalty and motivate employees to perform at peak levels while others struggle to retain mediocre… Continue

Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on August 5, 2010 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

TK Training Network is Driving Down the Cost of Training, and oh yes...It's FREE!

TK Training Network is an Interactive Online Virtual Training Platform Community with a built in Customer Management Software Program designed Exclusively For The Automotive Industry! This site was designed using your feedback and it's here to serve you.



There is something here for…

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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on July 29, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Recruiting For Positions In Your Dealership Has Never Been Easier!



Please watch this video and comment on it!

https://www.youtube.com/tkworldwide



I will be posting here soon, and providing insight into the world of automotive recruiting. I would like to know what you want to see regarding types of information (recruiting related) you may have questions about, or are seeking additional information on..…



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Added by Kevin "Friend Me" Bradberry on June 21, 2010 at 5:04pm — No Comments

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