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    Anyone hiring around chicago or rockford

    I don`t have any experience detailing but I`m looking for someone to teach me how to I don`t really car how much I get paid I just want to learn how to do it I do have a job though Monday thru Thursday and other day I`m free

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    Re: Anyone hiring around chicago or rockford

    Practice makes perfect. I would recommend you start learning on your own. You can get a lot of good information from these videos. Good Luck.

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    Re: Anyone hiring around chicago or rockford

    Quote Originally Posted by The Guz View Post
    Practice makes perfect. I would recommend you start learning on your own. You can get a lot of good information from these videos. Good Luck.

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...4mUqaB4UuPQ91m
    Thanks and yeah i have been practicing I just would really like to be working with someone who could show me a thing or 2 plus I really don`t have a garage or driveway to work on my car so makes it kinda hard at times especially since there`s been a couple thefts going on kinda don`t want to be cleaning my car sometimes to

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    Re: Anyone hiring around chicago or rockford

    What is your end goal?
    It may be challenging to find someone who has an established business to learn from. Training someone takes a lot of time and patience and is a huge investment.
    Generally, if you are being trained its with the intent that you will be sticking around to put that valuable training to use on the detail business/ owners clients vehicles.
    If your intent is just to learn how to take care of your own vehicles then you may want to peruse Youtube, how to articles here and on Autogeek.

    Mike Philips has a three day detailing class that you may want to look into.

    Again, its not that no one wants to help you out probably, its just what benefit do they get as well in return if they are running a full time detailing business and pouring their knowledge into you?
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    Re: Anyone hiring around chicago or rockford

    Your request to learn-on-the-job for employment is almost non-existent in today`s job market. Unless you have transferable experience or are currently enrolled in a technical college in auto body, for example, and work under a non-paying internship or as part of an apprentice program (think union-related job skills training and certification) it would be difficult to get your foot in the door. Put yourself in the employer`s shoes: if you had a successful business with paying customers and someone off the street came in and said "I will work for you for free for 2 weeks to learn this job", would you bring them in and let them work on customer`s cars?? This is one of the reasons that employers want you to enroll in a trade or technical school to learn and practice on someone else`s vehicles and prove that you can , indeed, do the job satisfactorily and efficiently. Even if you have gained the experience on your own, providing proof from friends-of-a-friend as a work reference when you`ve only done cash jobs will not be viable with a prospective employer. That would change if you ran your own legal (IE registered to pay taxes and filed with the federal and state governments to do so) detailing business and had paid invoices receipts as proof along with photos of vehicles and customer reviews of your workmanship. But them why would you be looking for work if you owned your own business in the first place, unless the business was failing (IE, you could not make a profit (revenue to cover expenses ) which is your personal business salary.
    You might get your foot in the door at a rental car place or car dealer who rents car and clean them or even at a car wash that offers detailing on the side to gain your detailing experience.

    I do not wish to sound cynical or put your abilities down or insinuate that you do not have the experience or ability to do vehicle detailing. Unfortunately, employers want "qualified" job applicants to be just that: qualified. They are unwilling to settle for someone who is close and are willing to wait for the "perfect" applicant. it is one of the reasons many available open jobs go unfilled: there is not a qualified candidate to fill the position, at least in the employer`s mind and they are unwilling to train someone anymore. It`s just too time consuming and expensive (expense overhead) and businesses have customers who expect and pay for great service or products and businesses (owners or stock holders or investors) who expect to make a return on investment (profit). This is the "new normal" in the 21st century job market.
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    Re: Anyone hiring around chicago or rockford

    Quote Originally Posted by Lonnie View Post
    Your request to learn-on-the-job for employment is almost non-existent in today`s job market. Unless you have transferable experience or are currently enrolled in a technical college in auto body, for example, and work under a non-paying internship or as part of an apprentice program (think union-related job skills training and certification) it would be difficult to get your foot in the door. Put yourself in the employer`s shoes: if you had a successful business with paying customers and someone off the street came in and said "I will work for you for free for 2 weeks to learn this job", would you bring them in and let them work on customer`s cars?? This is one of the reasons that employers want you to enroll in a trade or technical school to learn and practice on someone else`s vehicles and prove that you can , indeed, do the job satisfactorily and efficiently. Even if you have gained the experience on your own, providing proof from friends-of-a-friend as a work reference when you`ve only done cash jobs will not be viable with a prospective employer. That would change if you ran your own legal (IE registered to pay taxes and filed with the federal and state governments to do so) detailing business and had paid invoices receipts as proof along with photos of vehicles and customer reviews of your workmanship. But them why would you be looking for work if you owned your own business in the first place, unless the business was failing (IE, you could not make a profit (revenue to cover expenses ) which is your personal business salary.
    You might get your foot in the door at a rental car place or car dealer who rents car and clean them or even at a car wash that offers detailing on the side to gain your detailing experience.

    I do not wish to sound cynical or put your abilities down or insinuate that you do not have the experience or ability to do vehicle detailing. Unfortunately, employers want "qualified" job applicants to be just that: qualified. They are unwilling to settle for someone who is close and are willing to wait for the "perfect" applicant. it is one of the reasons many available open jobs go unfilled: there is not a qualified candidate to fill the position, at least in the employer`s mind and they are unwilling to train someone anymore. It`s just too time consuming and expensive (expense overhead) and businesses have customers who expect and pay for great service or products and businesses (owners or stock holders or investors) who expect to make a return on investment (profit). This is the "new normal" in the 21st century job market.

    You are way way way out on this. While some of it may be true. It really boils down to a few things.

    1. FLSA
    2. Liability
    3. Workmans comp.
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    Re: Anyone hiring around chicago or rockford

    Thanks guy for the advice really appreciate it and as for my long term goal I actually want to do this as a career auto detailing painting and body work

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