Careers with Helston Garages Group

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The Helston Garages Group employs around 800 people across the South West. We recognise that the success of our company is dependent on the quality and performance of our staff and we place great importance on them.

Some of the benefits we offer our staff include:

• Competitive rates of pay plus benefits including pension and life insurance
• Commitment to staff development and career progression
• Opportunity to work with prestigious and innovative car brands
• Full access to manufacturer training programmes
• Security and stability
• High quality working environments
• Chance to live and work in one of the most beautiful parts of the country

Staff Training and Development

We have a number of specific schemes and programmes in place to ensure this on-going commitment to staff training and development. These include:

• Internal Vacancies. All vacancies are advertised internally first to give existing staff the opportunity for career progression.
• Performance Development Meetings. These annual meetings give staff the opportunity to discuss their performance as well as their development with their manager.
• Management Development Programme. This is a training programme for employees who have been recognised by their managers to have future management potential.
• Apprentice Reward Scheme. A bonus payment is made to all aftersales apprentices who successfully complete their apprenticeship and remain with us for a period of time.
• Sales Apprentices. We run a programme of training for sales apprentices around the Group.
• Long Service Recognition. To recognise and reward long service we make a series of bonus payments.

Over 20% of our staff have worked for the company for more than 10 years. Of these, over 50 staff will have been with us for over 20 years - figures we are very proud of!

Career Progression

There are numerous examples in the Group of career progression. Here are just a couple of the many people who have grown with the company.

Kevin Turner Dealer Principal, Porsche Centre Exeter Kevin started his career with the company back in 1997 as a technician at Carrs of Truro. He rapidly progressed to workshop manager before being offered the job as Aftersales Manager at our Porsche dealership in Exeter. When we opened our new Jaguar dealership in Taunton in October 2004, Kevin was ready to take on the challenge. In 2006 Taunton Jaguar was ranked No.1 in the country for its sales performance and No.1 in the region for aftersales. Just 10 years after joining the company Kevin has now been appointed Dealer Principal of our Porsche Centre in Exeter.

Tony Pearson Sales Manager, Matford Land Rover Tony joined the Group in 1993 straight from school as a trainee parts person with Matford Land Rover. He quickly became a valued member of the parts department. Tony's talents were recognised by his managers and he was encouraged to spend some time in the sales department. Tony has never looked back and is now one of the top performing sales executives in the Group. In January 2010 Tony was appointed Sales Manager at Matford.

15 of the Group's General Managers have been promoted from within There is no substitute for the company strength and quality of service that comes from a family business and loyal, long-serving staff. To illustrate the point, 15 of the current dealership general managers joined the Group in a more junior position and many, many more members of staff have increased responsibility

Apprentices

Our continued drive to promote people within the company starts at the very beginning with our apprentices. We are fully committed to employing apprentice technicians at all of our sites and take on over 30 apprentices each year into the Group. We also employ an increasing number of apprentices in our parts departments as well as in our three body shops. We have also recently taken on a handful of sales apprentices all of whom are now well underway to becoming fully fledged sales executives.

Are you interested in joining our Group?

We are always looking for talented and motivated people who share our values to join our company. If you think you would be suited to our company and would like to let us know about yourself, please fill in the group application form and send to the Personnel Dept at careers@helstongaragesgroup.co.uk

Alternatively, you may post the form to:
Personnel Department
Helston Garages Group Limited
85 Meneage Street
Helston
Cornwall TR13 8RD

Alternatively, you may fax the form to 01326 555737 with a covering note.

Current Vacancies as of 22/07/2010

The Helston Garages Group strives to be an equal opportunities employer. To ensure we achieve this we carry out ongoing monitoring of our recruitment process.