Every business’s success, including that of your automobile dealership, greatly depends on its team members- a business is only as successful as its staff. No matter how effective the management is, it is the employees who make or break a business. They are the company’s lifeblood who carry out your mission and interact with customers to generate revenue and strengthen your brand.

However, finding the right talent for every position isn’t as easy, especially with a wide pool of candidates to choose from. It is even harder when you are building a team for the first time. Furthermore, the hiring process is costly- you don’t want to keep recruiting candidates for the same position over and over.

For instance, an individual might seem qualified for a position but later turns out to be unsuitable after hiring them. The next thing is you find yourself recruiting for the position again. Such mistakes lead to a high turnover rate, which becomes costly for your dealership and affects your brand in the long run.

How High Turnover Affects Your Automobile Dealership Business

When employees keep leaving your company, you suffer staffing gaps and high recruitment- related costs. It might also reflect negatively on your company culture, and people might consider your dealership an unsuitable place to work.

High turnover rates:

• Increases your recruitment costs
• Reduces productivity
• Lowers team members’ morale
• Reflects badly on your company’s image and brand

To avoid high turnover rates due to hiring, it’s important to:

• Spend time and invest the necessary resources into every step of the recruitment or hiring process, from creating and posting the job description to sifting through applications and conducting interviews
• Be creative with interview questions to truly understand candidates
• Be challenging by putting candidates in situations that will reveal their true selves to ensure they’re suitable for the position
• Involve your employees in the hiring process and take their opinions on candidates into consideration

We Are Glad to Help

Team members are crucial to your automobile dealership’s success. However, hiring the right talent isn’t as easy, and recruiting the wrong individuals can lead to high turnover rates, which are costly in both the short and long term.

At Vanguard Dealer Services, we have the right recruiting services to help lower employee turnover and save your dealership time and money. Contact us today for more information and to get started.