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From Passion to Power Tools: Meet Our Most Recent Tech Hires!

Girls Auto Clinic

Then a part-time lube tech gig. Patrice spoke at my college recently and I gathered the courage to ask her a question after her keynote address. That conversation? It led to an internship.

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Saeli: Train to Attract: Why Your Shop’s Training Program is Your Secret Recruiting Weapon

Ratchet + Wrench

A motivated quick-lube tech? A former diesel tech looking to switch? But if you’ve built a system for growing your own talent, whether that’s online learning platforms, peer mentoring, or monthly in-house training, you can confidently hire based on potential instead of just experience. Trainable. Trainable.

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Wrenching Women Wednesday with Katie French, featuring Jaime Spedden

RepairPal

Go start off as a lube tech somewhere. There’s nothing wrong with starting out as a lube tech- in fact, there’s nothing wrong with staying a lube tech for your career if that’s what makes you happy. Another piece of advice would be to get your foot in the door. I never went to school.

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What ‘Family-Owned and Operated’ Really Entails

Brake & Front End

This relative got to work and rose in responsibility, moving from lube tech to service advisor and eventually to assistant manager. So, against the advice of my business coach, I decided to help out and gave one of them a job. At first, things worked well. However, things weren’t as rosy as they appeared.