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CHRIS ALONSO Company: Johnstone Supply Corporate Title: Director of Strategic Accounts Age: 34 An angry customer brought Chris Alonso to the HVAC industry. His dad managed and owned automotive service [...]

Byline: KEN WYSOCKY Automakers constantly seek to fill the 'white space' in their lineups with niche vehicles aimed at specific market segments. The Matrix Trade Institute applies the same concept [...]

Byline: RICK POPELY As auto companies ramp up plans for more electric vehicles, the schools training the technicians who will work on these vehicles are shifting gears to prepare them [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez Nearly two years ago, Charlie Gilchrist, then president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, warned that the biggest threat facing the industry was a shortage of qualified [...]

Byline: David Muller chrissy TAYLOR CEO Enterprise Holdings St. Louis Age: 44 Education: B.A., sociology, Miami University; MBA, Washington University What drew you to the auto industry? My grandfather founded [...]

Byline: Simon Warburton Ontario's government is investing C$9.3m (US$7.1m) in 11 training projects to help around 2,000 students and job seekers prepare for auto and advanced manufacturing careers. The funding [...]

Byline: Krystal Hur Kristina Nunez is trying to land a full-time job in the auto industry -- and do it without meeting her boss in person. Many internship programs were [...]

Byline: just-auto plus The BMW Group has officially opened its new Additive Manufacturing Campus. The new centre brings together production of prototype and series parts under one roof, along with [...]

Byline: Alexa St. John Parts suppliers are scrambling to play a role in the industry's new effort to convert automotive factory capacity to the production of ventilators, respirators, masks, hospital [...]

Byline: Vince Bond Jr. Imagine a family with triplets who all have the same name but different dietary preferences. And they have to give lunch instructions to the new baby [...]

Byline: Danielle Szatkowski Being outgoing wasn't natural for Yvonne Garcia, and sometimes she felt intimidated -- which can be a problem for someone in retail. So the sales associate at [...]

Sonic Automotive's greatest challenge recently has been a decreasing SAAR (Seasonally Annual Adjusted Rate) of new car sales, as the United States is selling fewer new cars year-over-year. To overcome [...]

Byline: Dustin WalshDespite a large manufacturing sector, jobs in metro Detroit are less at risk for being automated than many other major cities.Jobs in sectors such as office administration, production, [...]

Byline: ALYSHA WEBB BMW of North America is investing big to expand its training of dealership service technicians in the United States. The goal is to boost by 60 percent [...]

Lori Blaker, CEO of Michigan-based TTi Global, which operates business training centers around the world, raised eyebrows when she walked into the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan a few years ago. [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts UK based driving simulation company, rFpro, has launched the world's first commercially available platform to train and develop autonomous vehicles in simulation. Using a digital environment to [...]

Byline: Hannah Lutz When service advisers don't know how to file claims on service contracts and other finance and insurance products, customers often become frustrated and lose faith in F&I [...]

Byline: ALYSHA WEBB American Honda Motor Co. works with community colleges nationwide to train service technicians to work on its Honda and Acura vehicles. It spends tens of thousands of [...]

Byline: just-auto plus Extended News Audi is making its employees fit for the digital future: Under the 'data.camp' motto, the automobile manufacturer has started a further-training campaign focused on big [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts Shop floor supervisors from Nissan Motor's South African assembly plant in Rosslyn now undergo training at the automaker's flagship Sunderland plant in the UK, and over 40 [...]

The Virtual AAPEX Experience is offering technical and management training on the top issues, challenges and opportunities facing automotive service and repair professionals. The free training will be provided from [...]

Byline: DUSTIN WALSH Manufacturing plants will not save our country's economy. Manufacturing still might. Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. the businessman-turned-politician [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Just four months into his new position as CEO of Focus: Hope, Jason Lee is tasked with figuring out what the 50-year-old nonprofit's programs will look like [...]

Jaguar Land Rover has welcomed nearly 600 new graduates and apprentices to the business in the week of 7 September, the company's highest intake to date. On 10 September the [...]

Tata Motors in association with Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF) has launched the 'National Employability Enhancement Mission (NEEM) - a nationwide skills enhancement initiative of Government of India. This initiative [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL) will scale up its skill development activities by setting up Automobile Skill Enhancement Centres (ASEC) at 45 government-run Industrial Training Institutes across the [...]

Byline: Matthew Beecham As we recover from the recession, Mark Bignell, Automotive Managing Consultant, Jonathan Lee Recruitment explains to Matthew Beecham how a 'perfect storm' led to shortages of automotive [...]

As we still recover from recession, Mark Bignell, Automotive Managing Consultant, Jonathan Lee Recruitment spoke to Matthew Beecham about how a 'perfect storm' led to shortages of automotive engineering skills [...]

Steve Ferrante started out around the auto service industry, and it has influenced his career ever since. Growing up in his family's shop, Ferrante's passion for cars took shape early. [...]