I am trying at the moment to employe/find a new mechanic.

So far word of mouth has brought in nothing.

Placed an advert on my news page of my website 1200 hits a month - zero

Placing an advert on some forums - nothing.

Pay upto £250 to place an advert in the paper - no chance.

Agency to take a percentage of their wages - not a chance.

Has anyone got any ideas?

Simon Smail

 

Move your workshop to near nottingham.

ill work for you.

 

haha as above it's maybe location dude!

 

It may be!

 

It's really odd, especially when you consider all this talk of there being such competition for jobs these days.

 

Are you paying enough being a Scot LOL

Steve

 

Im concidering on movement soon from my rents, maybe change of location

what are you looking for? Wont ask what pay of course.. and would need to visit. you looking for someone who has paper work or not?

 

Makes you wonder. We're looking for a young lad, 17-25 to come and work at our place selling designer clothes. Very good pay for retail + commission, nice place to work, clothes at cost price (Armani, Boss, Paul Smith, Polo etc) can we find someone? No. Plenty of dross from the job centre, ex alcoholics, people on probation etc but not a single decent person. I would have thought there were loads of young lads out there looking for work?

 

Have you got a local college doing a automotive NVQ? Easy way to get an extra set of hands without paying much

 

Yeh got one, he is doing well.

S.

 

any one who is any good has a job

 

id do it for free if i could get the experience and the no how on cars i do most things but would love to get into the big stuff but i think ya bit far away for me lol

 

cover me digs , ill come up there fella

beef

 

How much per hour?????

 

Well i made the trip,moved up to scotland and i did realy well the job was great, nik, simon,and jamie, realy good people, then GOT MADE REDUNDANT, weird realy as simon was looking for someone for so long, i just wish i was still there as iam currently still unemployed? it is doing my head in

 

so why you get laid off by sion of you did nothing wrong fella ?

seems weird ?

beef

 

Just diddnt have the work buddy, me and jamie the apprentice got laid off! he has wrang me and asked me to go up and work for a few weeks but its just to far to commute, and once you take your food, accomodation, and travaling ect wouldnt realy be worth the hastle. dont get me wrong i would love to be back up there but its just not going to happen. Things are just to unstable?

 

Simon it is hard to get good staff,as you know im on decent money and conditions,and even we struggle to get the right sort of mechanics,give a phone over the week end mate

cheeRS stu

 

Its not that i was the wrong sort of mechanic or anything to do with that. It was down to the fact that simon had the work load when i started then we cought up with it and then it went very quiat. since making me redundant simon has asked me to go back up but it would only be for a few weeks as he stil hasnt got that much in as to warrent taking me on full time?

 

I know a guy pm your number mate and il get him to call you

 

That post is a year old mate.

Benni.

 

but he's still not found anyone mate

 

Think you will find it's nearly 7 months old.

hth.

 

I dont believe simon is looking for anyone, as he doesent have the work load! and yeah this post is nearly a year old!

 

Issac, I dont think it is a good idea to brandish your opinions on my thread, you are not doing me any favours!

You are giving out the wrong impressions. You are sending bad signals to potential customer and my current customers.

Just to clear everything up - I took you on due to the work load at the time, and as you know the phone went dead Jan to mid March. I then said to you go back home for 3 to 4 weeks, to see if things picked up? They did, but you came and collected your tools. There is still lots of work.

The apprentice choose to leave, I said I would employ him a couple of days a week so he could keep his collage course until it picked up, but he choose to leave.

Simon.

 

if only i lived up that simon,i'd come and have a pop at at.

 

Simon

I have to be honest from what Issac said I had no bad thoughts about you or your business practice.

Just seemed like one of those things, someone took a gamble and it didn't pay off.

 

im a mechanic by trade and looking for work other then mechanics, its crap these days and under paid...id rather stay clean lolz

 

same

 

looking for a mechanic job in heathrow area if any one noes any where

 

2 sides to a story and all that

Fair play Simon.

 

Simon i didnt mean any harm saying wat i said! i just said wat my current situation was. I came and collected my things because i needed them as i was no longer working with yourselves! And i would of came back up to work, but as i stated i needed stability i didnt think this was for me,and thought i would wait untill you had a lot more work ahead to make it worth my wile, and yours also?

 

Just reading through wat has been said, and to be honest there hasent been any bad mouthing or any bad thoughts towards sitech racing or you simon i was just talking about how things were unstable, not meaning with you but in the current times ie the recession (credit crunch) taking it stoll on everyone.I diddnt mean to be affencive but you have obviously have taken it the wrong way? And for this iam sorry !

isaac

 

I dont think anyone took it that you was bad mouthing him nor making it look bad on his business

 

How much are you paying. Serious Q?

 

i didnt think you said anything bad about sitech mate.

 

To add...

I didn't even realise it was Sitech???

 

In what way have you helped?

Benni.

 

If anything, you painted a nice picture of him. Or at least that's how I seen it.

Benni.

 

ah shit.

horses head bing delivered soon i see