New job at a dealership!

[Porkchop]

So I may have locked down my first "big boy" job out of school, seeing that I have 2 classes left for graduation. It just so happens to be at a motorcycle dealership too. And its NOT vehicle sales!!!! I consider it a good starting point, and a step in the right direction, considering the current job market.

The job is a finance department manager. Part of his email says. "The daily duties will include the selling and presentation of company back end products (financing, service-contracts, maintenance agreements, etc.), obtaining and managing financing of vehicles, processing of vehicle purchase documents and title work, administration and maintenance of vendor relationship for all back-end products. The finance associate is also responsible for keeping track of data related to KPIs and reporting on weekly, monthly and annually."

Base salary is meh, but it also includes graduated compensation, which bumps it to a good number for a young person. So yet again, it is a good starting point. Best plus.... after 3 months you get bike purchase assistance and dealer discounts. Can you say newer SS??? Hot season (Mar-Aug) is 50 hours a week, Sep-Feb is 40 hrs a week.


Anybody work at a dealer before? Anybody work in dealer finance? Any advice or comments on the job?

[Particle Man]

Hey, congrats!

[Trip]

Run, seems like dealers go through employees like hot cakes around here. They regularly fire off the whole staff and replace everyone.

Congrats though, good experience builder.

[Tsunami]

No comments on experience but congrats!!

[Cutty72]

No experience with a bike dealer, but I worked at a car dealership.
It was a good experience, got to see the "other side" of it. Depending on how the dealership runs, you will either find out that all the "stealership" comments are just a stereotype, or find that they are true for your new place of employment.

I hope that it is a place that does it's best to make the customer happy, and I hope it makes you happy!

[derf]

Wow, you are the asshole that I hate that wants to sell me a ton of crappy useless warenties.

Worked at a car dealership a while back was a fairly good experience

[ericr]

Yeah, 2 1/2 yrs until mid Dec last year...unless it's a huge and constanyle busy dealership, you will make no more than you base salary and they will let you go if you don't sell "enough" backend to suit them, wether or not anyone could sell it to the same given customers. The market (due to the economy) is too dead to expect all the commission they're telling you you can make, I heard the same thing in 08 before the banks crashed. Do I sound jaded? Unfortunately that really is pretty much the way 98% of the dealerships out there are run. If you find one of the 2%, that's awesome and you'll have a blast and maybe make decent money. Too many of the dealers are taking on "car sales" tactics and they don't realize that doesn't work in the powersports industry except in rare cases, but that's all they want to look at. Every dealership in my area is a revolving door of employees, either quit or fired. My best piecec of advice...start looking for your next job now, but try to enjoy what you can out of your experiance while you're there. Good luck!!

[Rangerscott]

Are you going to be the one to give out the free rim jobs with every moto sale?

[101lifts2]

How much we talkin here? I think they fire the higher paid employees so they can hire the fresh outta school people for cheap.

Alot of motorcycle dealers closed...and people still are really not buying shit anymore.

Good luck.

[Fleck750]

Have worked at 3 dealerships. Good luck to you, you'll see the bike riders in a whole new light. And the best part of the job is watching the newbies ride the bike you just sold them out of the lot.