Category: 120k Mechanic Jobs
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The $120,000 Mechanic Job Headline And What Nobody Tells You, Part 5: What You’re Really Paying For When You Fix Your Car
We’ve covered a lot already: Part 1: Why the “$120,000 mechanic job” headline is misleading Part 2: How politics inside a dealership starve good techs out Part 3: Why shiny pay plans fall apart once you plug real life into them Part 4: What the industry would actually have to fix to attract real talent Now it’s time…
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The $120,000 Mechanic Job Headline And What Nobody Tells You, Part 4: How To Actually Fix The Technician Shortage
So far we’ve covered: Part 1: Why the “$120,000 mechanic job” headline is misleading Part 2: How politics inside a dealership starve good techs out Part 3: Why shiny pay plans fall apart once you plug real life into them Now we get to the part everyone pretends is complicated “How do we fix the technician shortage?” It’s…
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The $120,000 Mechanic Job Headline And What Nobody Tells You, Part 3: Flat-Rate Reality vs. The Shiny BMW Pay Plan
By now you’ve heard the line: “We can’t find techs even for $120,000 a year.” In Part 1 I explained why that number isn’t what the public thinks. In Part 2 I showed how dealership politics can starve a good tech right out the door. Now we’re going after the money piece everyone keeps waving…
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The $120,000 Mechanic Job Headline And What Nobody Tells You: Part 2: Dealership Politics And Starving Out Good Techs
Ford CEO Jim Farley said that he’s got 5,000 jobs that pay 120K dollars that he can’t fill. Ok, let’s talk about that (more). This had HUGE traction on Facebook- with over 1200 shares. Part 1: The “$120,000 mechanic job” headline, and all the fine print :Record scratch: how does a top-level, award-winning technician end…
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The $120,000 Mechanic Job Headline And What Nobody Tells You – Part 1
Multiple people have reached out asking what I think about the recent comments from Ford’s CEO Jim Farley. I enjoy it when people ask for my opinion on things like this- so let’s get into it.Farley went public and said he has 5,000 open mechanic jobs that pay about $120,000 a year and he still…