cott Trainor describes himself as all automotive on a regular basis.
He began promoting Toyotas in his native Canada at age 19 and ended his dealership profession managing the nation’s largest Mercedes-Benz retailer in Montreal.
It was round this time some mates who had been working the automotive employment website canadamotorjobs.com approached Trainor about launching the same website within the States.
He jumped on the alternative and traded in his snow boots for flip-flops and moved to Florida. Two months later, the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
“It wasn’t supposed to be a soft launch, but now we call it a soft launch because the world stopped,” he says with a chuckle. “It was a very interesting year and a half. And honestly up until a few months ago it’s still been interesting even after COVID. With the inventory shortage, people weren’t moving around or necessarily looking for jobs.
“Now we’re up and working.”
The site — usamotorjobs.com— is similar to indeed.com but solely for automotive.
“We’ve modernized how individuals are connecting,” Trainor says. “Both the employers and the candidates are constructing profiles. They can see the place they match up, how they match up. It’s not simply utilizing conventional resumes; it is clear for each.
“It’s almost like a dating site.”
But Trainor does not play matchmaker; he simply offers the platform.
Another instance of Trainor’s ardour for automotive was some current awards he and others handed out to dealerships. The C.A.R.S. Awards (for Culture, Achievement, Retention, Service) was the brainchild of Trainor and accomplice Sandy Cerami.
Awards got to dealerships in six classes similar to “Best Social Media & Branding” and “Best Community Partner Program.” Trainor, Cerami and trade leaders served as judges.
“That was just an idea that I came up with a few months ago,” Trainor says. “I really wanted to elevate and showcase stores that are excelling in different categories. It wasn’t an award about my product or anybody else’s product. It was truly about the industry.”
He says they acquired about 200 nominations throughout the six classes after doing solely just a bit publicity.
“We had everybody from vendors nominating stores to dealership employees to even customers nominating stores,” Trainor says. “And we did that in the space of a month. Next year, we’re definitely doing it much bigger.”
First automotive: Saturn SL1, positively not fancy, highly effective or good trying, however a minimum of the physique did not rust
First live performance you attended: Struggle Jennings
Name a pet peeve: Tardiness
Most thrilling/adventurous factor you’ve got achieved: Diving with sharks
First job: Grocery retailer bag boy
Something in your bucket record: Scuba diving within the Maldives
One factor you realized on the job you by no means forgot: Offer a superb guestexperience
If you can choose up a brand new talent, what would it not be? Fly a airplane
First web site you go to within the morning: Linkedin responding to messages, networking and studying updates in regards to the trade
3 folks you’d invite to dinner, dwelling or useless: [“Shark Tank’s”] Kevin O’Leary, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett
What did you need to be once you grew up? A race automotive driver or something to do with powersports
Do you gather something? Everything Halloween; we placed on an enormous haunted home yearly
You’re king for a day. What’s your first order? To really concentrate on the folks first, not what you suppose they need, however truly hearken to what they are saying and attempt to enhance their lives.
Favorite line from a film: “Nobody is going to hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa
Who’s in your Spotify playlist? Chris Stapleton, Zac Brown Band, Eric Church, Brantley Gilbert, Kane Brown
Source: www.autonews.com
