Who has graduated college?
#61
Re: Who has graduated college?
Originally Posted by Tatakai
that too. im taking the extra FORD FACT program which is just another like 4 weeks of electrical ----, but will let me work at any ford dealership. not that i want to work for ford, but just having taken the program I can walk in and walk back out with a job the next day.
Let me tell you something up front. Dealerships don't give a crap what "formal" training you've had, unless you were sent to their specific training schools, which you would only get through being a dealer employed tech. It's kind of like a catch 22 situation.
Besides, I see so many guys walk into a dealership thinking that because they've got some electrical training that they can be a driveability tech. What a frikin joke! manuals are a hell of a lot different than real life, and proper diagnosis is not as simple as reading the codes off of the DRB.
I'm just trying to ready you for the fact that just because you went to a name brand school, don't expect to get hired based off of that. Your best chance is to hope they have room for an apprentice and they'll let you piggyback with an experienced tech for awhile. Not to mention dealerships normally don't like young techs with no family because they don't have tons of debt and responsibility keeping them in one place.
Good luck though, just do your research months before you start trying to get a job, and try to build some contacts. DO NOT JUST WALK IN THINKING YOU'RE GOING TO BE A TECH GOD, AND THEY'D BE CRAZY TO PASS YOU UP! that's a good way to stay unemployed for a long time.
#62
Re: Who has graduated college?
Originally Posted by 96turboracer
Man you need to wake up and smell the coffee. I've worked in dealerships for the last 4-5 years, not as a tech, and the one thing I see as a constant is all these kids coming in thinking they're going to be some badass tech because a piece of paper says they should be.
Let me tell you something up front. Dealerships don't give a crap what "formal" training you've had, unless you were sent to their specific training schools, which you would only get through being a dealer employed tech. It's kind of like a catch 22 situation.
Besides, I see so many guys walk into a dealership thinking that because they've got some electrical training that they can be a driveability tech. What a frikin joke! manuals are a hell of a lot different than real life, and proper diagnosis is not as simple as reading the codes off of the DRB.
I'm just trying to ready you for the fact that just because you went to a name brand school, don't expect to get hired based off of that. Your best chance is to hope they have room for an apprentice and they'll let you piggyback with an experienced tech for awhile. Not to mention dealerships normally don't like young techs with no family because they don't have tons of debt and responsibility keeping them in one place.
Good luck though, just do your research months before you start trying to get a job, and try to build some contacts. DO NOT JUST WALK IN THINKING YOU'RE GOING TO BE A TECH GOD, AND THEY'D BE CRAZY TO PASS YOU UP! that's a good way to stay unemployed for a long time.
Let me tell you something up front. Dealerships don't give a crap what "formal" training you've had, unless you were sent to their specific training schools, which you would only get through being a dealer employed tech. It's kind of like a catch 22 situation.
Besides, I see so many guys walk into a dealership thinking that because they've got some electrical training that they can be a driveability tech. What a frikin joke! manuals are a hell of a lot different than real life, and proper diagnosis is not as simple as reading the codes off of the DRB.
I'm just trying to ready you for the fact that just because you went to a name brand school, don't expect to get hired based off of that. Your best chance is to hope they have room for an apprentice and they'll let you piggyback with an experienced tech for awhile. Not to mention dealerships normally don't like young techs with no family because they don't have tons of debt and responsibility keeping them in one place.
Good luck though, just do your research months before you start trying to get a job, and try to build some contacts. DO NOT JUST WALK IN THINKING YOU'RE GOING TO BE A TECH GOD, AND THEY'D BE CRAZY TO PASS YOU UP! that's a good way to stay unemployed for a long time.
#68
Re: Who has graduated college?
yea.. i feel kinda judged. lol
im not going to UTI thinking i'll come out a tech god. i go in and get out with my ASE in a year, and of course the UTI and FORD FACT (which is a dealer specific training) will just be added to the resume and look pretty. I was told about the whole working at any Ford dealership thing by a guy currently going to UTI in arizona. i'm pretty serious about working on cars, I was one of those guys in high school who didn't know wtf he was doing until he took autoshop and fell in love. i've actually taken the big *** like 3000 page study book home to study ----- good luck getting me to do that for any other class. well, maybe a natural/nude art class
im not going to UTI thinking i'll come out a tech god. i go in and get out with my ASE in a year, and of course the UTI and FORD FACT (which is a dealer specific training) will just be added to the resume and look pretty. I was told about the whole working at any Ford dealership thing by a guy currently going to UTI in arizona. i'm pretty serious about working on cars, I was one of those guys in high school who didn't know wtf he was doing until he took autoshop and fell in love. i've actually taken the big *** like 3000 page study book home to study ----- good luck getting me to do that for any other class. well, maybe a natural/nude art class
#69
Re: Who has graduated college?
Originally Posted by Tatakai
yea.. i feel kinda judged. lol
im not going to UTI thinking i'll come out a tech god. i go in and get out with my ASE in a year, and of course the UTI and FORD FACT (which is a dealer specific training) will just be added to the resume and look pretty. I was told about the whole working at any Ford dealership thing by a guy currently going to UTI in arizona. i'm pretty serious about working on cars, I was one of those guys in high school who didn't know wtf he was doing until he took autoshop and fell in love. i've actually taken the big *** like 3000 page study book home to study ----- good luck getting me to do that for any other class. well, maybe a natural/nude art class
im not going to UTI thinking i'll come out a tech god. i go in and get out with my ASE in a year, and of course the UTI and FORD FACT (which is a dealer specific training) will just be added to the resume and look pretty. I was told about the whole working at any Ford dealership thing by a guy currently going to UTI in arizona. i'm pretty serious about working on cars, I was one of those guys in high school who didn't know wtf he was doing until he took autoshop and fell in love. i've actually taken the big *** like 3000 page study book home to study ----- good luck getting me to do that for any other class. well, maybe a natural/nude art class
To be honest, there are several classes that you can take which I've seen a few guys do, (and is a hell of a lot cheaper than UTI) basically they have you go to school for 6 months, then work at a dealer basically being an apprentice to a long term tech for 6 months, then back to school again. It's a pretty good setup and you learn a lot more than just general information. Plus you get valueable experience on the job. Pretty much the only thing you really have to hope for is that the tech you get stuck with will actually want to teach you something instead of just be pissed you got stuck with him.
If you're serious about becoming a tech I'd strongly recommend going to a local dealer and ask them about any programs like that. This was at a Ford dealership, I'm not sure quite what the program is called, but the dealership loves it because they basically get an extra body for all the grunt work, and it doesn't cost them a dime. So they're down with it, plus they get to see you in an actual work environment, so if you impress them during your 6-months there, when you get out of the school they may hire you straight away.
Just something to think about.
#70
Re: Who has graduated college?
Originally Posted by N1ghtM0nkey
Werd, I go there for vacation all the time and it's a hell of a nice place.
Actually I'll be out there next week come to think of it.
Actually I'll be out there next week come to think of it.