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Employers describe various hiring practices, including higher scrutiny of applicants during the interview process. Employers also express a willingness to promote and sponsor the education of promising new employees.

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"[Another employer] and I have been interviewing for some diesel technology positions. [The other employer] is service tech manager, and as we're going through we're finding really kind of two completely people. We're getting some applicants...they have a good experience level. They have a tech college degree, they have a good experience level, and they definitely know what they want to get paid. Then we have some other folks that we throw away their application and we don't respond. We don't have no idea why they applied for the job." Central
"Hiring and training in-house has been our focus. That's a process and it's so somebody can kind of hit the ground running?right now in my store, my best diesel technician came from that. He was a graduate of [a college] and started in my quick lane and moved on up. And he's been fantastic. But those people are few and far between. He's a specialist." Central
"When we get a new employee coming in, we will usually look at their Facebook page, or this page, or that page. These kids, the stuff they have on it, it's like, 'what were you thinking? You know and we're trying to hire you.' And they don't understand that yet." Metro
"My wife always gives the example of when you hire a guy, the first thing you ask him, is 'Do you plow your driveway or do you drive over the snow?' Of course, we met a few that always drove over the ground, never plowed their driveway. They turned out to be not very good employees." Metro
"Now, you can find out before you hire them, and that's changed the dynamic you're talking about. I've been in interviews [in the past]. 'You don't do drugs do you? Great. You start Monday.' Now, it's 'Well, wait a minute, you got your check sheet, I got to remember to do Facebook and then, if you pass all that, then maybe I'll offer you a job depending on the other candidates.' Again, it has different ramifications than ever before because as much as all that information is available to you as a consumer and as an employee, it's available to us too. So we're going to use what's available." Metro
"I think incoming employees are receiving a higher level of scrutiny than they ever have, to your point about social media, but also motor vehicle driving records, drug screening, those types of things. I think when people are younger and going through their education, that's the last thing on their mind, but it does have a big impact on their hireability and future employment opportunities. Like I said, motor vehicle driving record is a big thing in this industry." Metro
"And we sponsor kids all the way through college that have been working for us. They have no debt when they're starting the job. And then we can hand pick them. If they're not working out we can work with the instructors and say, 'Hey, this is what you need to work on, or they're not going to make it.'" Northwest
"So, I mean, with the last hire...the first interview was three hours long. I sat down before I interviewed this guy, and I had several pages of questions. Because I know what I need to have. I didn't hire a new tech guy. I hired a tech from a dealership. And then when we had the second interview, it was about another three hours. He had questions and I had questions." Northwest
"Over half of our company came from service, and that's our sales fleet...over half of our technicians. The service advisor job is kind of becoming a step up. It's a step up out of the shop, a step up out of sales." Northwest
"The federal Department of Transportation requires us to do a pre-employment drug screening.
Q: Do you lose any because of the drug testing?
A: No, we don't, and I believe that's because of our stringent hiring practices."		 Southwest