US Website Aims to Meet Projected Employer Demand for Talent

In the USA, the TireJobs Company has announced an upgrade to its “Post Jobs” section of the TireJobs Classified website to make posting jobs a much easier process. A “one time” free job posting is available if contact is made directly with Carl Koester, the company president. TireJobs also provides comprehensive job searches and customised employment referral services for the tyre industry at www.tirejobs.com. It is a division of TAF Management, Inc; a consulting and project management company that helps commercial tyre dealers with sales promotions, business planning and other services.

Company president Koester states: “This website (www.tirejobsclassified.com) is for posting real tyre jobs for real tyre people. Employers can post job listings directly to the website, plus they can search a resume bank of qualified job seekers who can use the site to create accounts, post their resume and search for jobs.”

Koester argues that in the current time tyre companies are looking to recruit selectively rather than in the numbers experienced in the past, stressing the need for talent in helping companies’ negotiation of choppy economic waters: “Growing up in Pittsburgh, PA (once the steel capital of the world) in the late 1970s and early ‘80s as an industrial tyre salesperson calling on steel mills and the supporting coal industry, I watched the unions dig in as the imported steel arrived at our shores. In the end it was a futile effort to hang on to the days of old.

“Management was also to blame. Shortsightedness and greed prevailed by the lack of long term investments to lower production costs. The union was so traumatized from plant closings that they eventually banded with the rubber workers union. As a result of steel plant closings the population of Pittsburgh shrunk by 50 per cent.  Are the unions and management working to prevent such a catastrophe again? They must adapt and learn to compete.

“Now that we are in the grasp of the Chinese tyre tariffs it’s time to consider what effects it has had on the job market in the US. Frankly, it has done more to save manufacturing jobs then creating them. I hear the smoke is bellowing out of the chimneys of all US tyre manufacturers as they press to meet the demand. Tyre shortages are beginning to appear. But it’s highly unlikely that any real capital investments will be made to increase domestic production to address this short term supply issue.

“The Chinese tyre tariffs have had little effect on job creation in the sales and service sector in the US. The largest problems being more about supply channel issues. Smaller dealers who relied on single or limited sourcing partners are scrambling to find product. New buying agreements with larger wholesalers that prepared for the tariffs with multiple sourcing partners are being formulated.”

 
Koester concludes: “Most employers that contact The TireJobs Company are not looking to expand their employment ranks at this time. They want talent! Many have found persons who are responsible for sales and services that were adequate during the boom years are not prepared to address a difficult market situation were innovation and proactive solutions are needed. Writing orders is a lot different then selling.

“As the economy improves the talent pool is shrinking. TireJobs predicts that if you don’t have your team in place for the economic rebound by June of 2010 you will be in dire shape to find real talent.”