Plan Now for Automotive Career Month in October

Plan Now for Automotive Career Month in October

Automotive Career Month is a great way of –encouraging teenagers in your community to consider dealership careers and help fill more than 100,000 job openings at dealerships around the country. Last year, dealers reported large turnouts and positive community feedback. For dealers planning to host an open house or other event during October, NADA has a how-to event kit. At www.nada.org/careers (click “Dealers”), you can download the kit or order a hard copy. You can also download Automotive Career Month ads for print or for your website, or order career videos to show students, parents and educators.

In addition, NADA has partnered with AYES during Career Month, and each of the AYES affiliated schools will be holding a –Meeting in a Box” (MIAB) to get more dealers involved with the local AYES School at a special meeting at which the many benefits of AYES are explained to them.

–Each school will be scheduling that meeting during October to hitchhike on NADA’s Career Week, and my effort will be to get them to invite their AYES School to their dealership for their NADA event,” said Richard (Ric) Glenn, manager for AYES in Metropolitan Washington and Maryland. –This program is not only for prospective technicians, but parts personnel, finance, IT, and sales,” he adds. For more information and assistance, contact Ric at (301) 730-9960, or e-mail him at rglenn8199@aol.com.