[Video] Building a Strong Foundation for Young Employees

In this session, two dealers will share how they are pre- paring recent graduates as well as incoming college students to join their organizations and setting them up for successful careers within the business.

The two organizations — H&R Agri-Power and Van Wall Equipment — are taking two different approaches. H&R hires recent graduates with an understanding that they could end up at any store across the group’s 5 regions. Van Wall, on the other hand, is focusing on young people who want to stay close to home and is launching a new technician training program to prepare them for positions within the dealership.

Jim Lancaster, Central Regional Manager, H&R Agri-Power, Hopkinsville, Ky. — Each year, H&R Agri-Power, an 18-store Case IH dealership group headquartered in Kentucky, hires as many as 6 college graduates to fill positions that don’t exist. The hires are part of a program to develop young
people in whom they see potential. The trial period helps H&R see if they have skills or talents that fit a niche and can help grow the business.

Lancaster, who works out of the dealership’s headquarters in Hopkinsville, Ky., has been one of the regional managers who has had the most experience…