This is a Guest Post Written by Elijah Dawson It’s important to take some time to prepare your car for winter. Failure to do so could cause significant damage to your vehicle and a costly trip to the auto repair shop. Here are steps you can take to prepare your vehicle for the cold and […]
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Hiring skilled tradespeople has always been difficult. There are not nearly enough people in the trades and the good ones are rarely looking for work. This is especially true for the HVAC industry where Technicians and Installers are nearly impossible to hire. The biggest issue for most employers is finding candidates to interview. Many companies
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Over the past two years, pay rates for mechanics right across the board have gone way up. This has left unionized shops in a bit of a disadvantage. In the past, shops that were unionized could be counted on as higher paying roles than other shops. There was usually a stigma involved with working for
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Timing can be crucial when it comes to hiring. Far too often we get calls from companies saying “I need to hire 3 mechanics and I need them to start yesterday!” Obviously they are exaggerating but it can be a real problem. Hiring, especially done right, takes time. Depending on your location and what you
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High turnover can be a major factor holding your company back from growing. The higher your turnover rate the more time and money you need to spend on recruiting which takes you away from your core business. Also new staff can take time to get up to speed. The longer your team works together the
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Finding experienced and qualified HVAC techs in Canada and the USA can be very difficult and hard to find, especially with such a shortage in the skilled trades. This challenge can also be magnified by geographic location, shift, wages and overall compensation package, and specific certification requirements. Despite all this, you’re not going to want
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Reposted from https://rockstarrecruiting.ca Trying to hire Truck and Coach Technicians in Canada can feel like an impossible task. If you are able to find and hire a technician you want to make sure they last. It is easy to overlook things during the hiring process but if you want to make sure your new hire
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Reposted from https://rockstarrecruiting.ca Hiring Diesel Technicians is incredibly difficult, especially for those of us that do not have a background as a Mechanic. Human Resources Reps and Recruiters can often get intimated when hiring for technical positions. It can be tricky to determine if the qualifications are going to match and what is important to
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One of the biggest barriers for people who want to pursue a career as a mechanic is tools. Technicians need a large set of tools and they are not cheap. Many techs who have been in the trade for several years will have a tool collection worth over $50,000 or more. The costs really start
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Most companies will happily say that their people are their biggest asset or that their staff is their competitive advantage. This seems to be pretty universal, without the right people in place your business can not survive but when it comes to recruiting many companies look at it as an expense. Recruiting is not an
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I speak with North American HVAC client’s everyday and regardless of whether they are located in Florida, Texas, California, New York, Massachusetts, Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Alberta, or P.E.I, the one common issue they all lament is: the skilled trades shortage of experienced HVAC Technicians. While this is not ground breaking news and generally common
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Although in-person interviews are much more prevalent in the skilled trades, there are different situations where a company or even a candidate, requests a phone interview as a first step in the hiring process. If you’re an HVAC professional, read below for some phone interview tips and tricks to help get you closer to your
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What is the real reason that companies use Recruiting Firms to fill their open positions? The obvious answer is to hire staff but that is the equivalent of saying that the reason you buy a chocolate bar is because you are hungry. Sure a chocolate bar might fill that hunger but there are hundreds of
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Nearly every day we get a company calling in asking “Why is it so hard to hire mechanics?” The answer is very easy but unfortunately the solution is not. The answer is Supply and Demand. There are more jobs available right now than there are qualified mechanics. There is a real shortage throughout Canada and
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As a recruiter who has been working with Mechanics for close to 15 years I have heard some pretty awesome stories over the years of interview fails. We are not talking about your standard every day fails like showing up late or on the wrong day or trash talking their previous employers or demanding way
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Hiring Mechanics is tough, there are not enough technicians out there and you never want to settle. You need a Rockstar Recruiter to find you a Rockstar Mechanic. There are a lot of misconceptions out there about what a recruiter actually does and how they can help. A Good Recruiter does way more than post
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We get calls every day from commercial and residential HVAC companies in a panic, they need to hire HVAC/R technicians and installers urgently. When we ask when they need them to start, they will often say Yesterday! If you are waiting until you are desperate to start recruiting HVAC technicians and installers, this is obviously
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At Rockstar Recruiting we specialize in helping mechanics in Canada and the USA find great jobs. The vast majority of jobs we work on require that someone already has authorization to work in the country (either Canada or the USA.) Unfortunately getting that authorization (work permit/visa) is not easy process. While we are not experts
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Anyone who does a lot of hiring will run into the occasional rejected job offer. This is never a good feeling but it happens. When a mechanic decides to start looking for a new job they will typically apply for several different opportunities. If you thought they were good enough to offer a job, you
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Video conference interviewing is becoming more and more popular these days for mechanic roles. There are several reasons for this including saving time and being able to have multiple people in on the interview from various branches. This works especially well if you are interviewing at a shop that has several locations and the District
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