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Max Q Recruiting & Staffing

The Candidates You Actually Want Aren't On Indeed.

We don't post jobs. We map passive talent — the technicians, advisors, and managers already producing for someone else — and recruit them directly to your store. Flat fee, 60-day replacement guarantee.

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The Problem

Reactive Hiring Is
Costing You Money.

Most dealerships hire when somebody quits. By the time the requisition is open, productivity is already gone. The replacement takes 45 to 90 days to fully ramp, and 30% of them are gone again inside the first year. The math is brutal — and it's hidden across half a dozen line items, which is why most owners never see it clearly.

67%
Annual Turnover
Industry average across all dealership roles
$15K
Per Departure
Recruiting, onboarding & lost productivity
$90K+
Annual Cost
Average store with 6+ departures per year
22%
Standard Agency Fee
On top of first-year compensation per placement
What's Different

How Stores Actually
Win at Hiring.

Approach 01

Passive Candidate Mapping

The best technicians, F&I directors, and service advisors in your market are already employed — and they aren't browsing Indeed. We identify them by name, store, and tenure. Then we reach out directly.

Vs. Indeed: Job boards pull people who are actively quitting. We recruit people producing today.
Vs. Agencies: Most agencies recycle the same database. We map your specific market.
Approach 02

Onsite Intake

Before we recruit a single candidate, we spend time inside your store. We understand your culture, your pay plans, your physical plant, your leadership style. That's what we sell to candidates — not a generic pitch.

Vs. Indeed: A job posting can't sell your store. A person who's walked the drive can.
Vs. Agencies: Most agencies have never set foot in your store. We always do.
Approach 03

Flat Monthly Fee

No percentage-of-salary fees. No 22% upcharge that scales with the candidate's success. One predictable monthly retainer gets you unlimited placements across the roles you need filled.

Vs. Indeed: Pay-per-click ad spend with no guarantee of quality.
Vs. Agencies: Traditional agency fees can run $20K+ on a $90K placement.
Approach 04

60-Day Replacement Guarantee

If a placement doesn't work out in the first 60 days — for any reason — we replace them. No additional fee. No fine print. Because we have skin in the game, our incentives match yours: long-tenure hires, not headcount churn.

Vs. Indeed: No guarantee of any kind. You eat every bad hire.
Vs. Agencies: Most guarantees come with restrictions and prorated refunds.
The Six-Step Placement Process

How a Search
Actually Runs.

Step 01

Onsite Intake

A half-day at your store. We meet your managers, walk the drive, review your pay plans, and document what makes your store actually different. This becomes the candidate pitch.

Step 02

Market Mapping

We build a target list of every producer in the role you need within a defined radius. Names, current employers, tenure, and reachability — usually 40 to 120 candidates per role.

Step 03

Direct Outreach

We contact each candidate directly — phone, text, LinkedIn — with a tailored message about your specific store. No mass blasts. No "hey are you looking?" templates.

Step 04

Vetting & Pre-Qualification

Phone screens, reference checks on prior production numbers, motivation calibration. By the time a candidate reaches you, they're qualified and genuinely interested.

Step 05

Single Final Round

We present 3 to 5 finalists per role. You run one interview round. We coach you on the interview structure if helpful. Decision and offer within a week.

Step 06

30/60/90 Check-Ins

After hire, we check in with both you and the placement at 30, 60, and 90 days. We catch friction early, before it becomes a resignation. This is where our retention numbers come from.

Roles We Place

Hard-to-Fill Seats
Are Our Specialty.

Technicians

Placement fee: $4,500

A-techs, master techs, and brand-certified specialists. The roles your service drive can't run without — and the ones job boards consistently fail to fill.

Service Advisors

Placement fee: $3,500

Advisors with proven ELR, hours-per-RO, and CSI track records. The single most leveraged role in fixed ops — and the hardest to recruit cold.

F&I Directors

Placement fee: $7,500

Producers with documented PVR, product penetration, and compliance discipline. We don't place "F&I managers" — we place producers.

BDC Leadership

Placement fee: $4,500

BDC managers and supervisors with measurable appointment-set and show-rate performance. The people who actually run a BDC — not just oversee it.

Sales Managers & GSMs

Placement fee: $8,500

Floor leaders, desk managers, used car managers, GSMs. We benchmark candidates on gross, turn rate, and front-end retention before they ever reach your interview.

Service Directors

Placement fee: $9,500

Operators who own a P&L and have run fixed ops at $1M+ per month. Strategic hires that require a different conversation than a general advisor search.

Recent Placement

Mountain View CDJR
Service Director.

The Engagement
A Service Director Hired in 30 Days. Zero Indeed Postings.

Mountain View CDJR had been searching for a Service Director for over four months. They had run job postings, paid an outside agency a retainer, and interviewed candidates who looked good on paper but couldn't articulate how they'd actually improve the department. The store was losing money in fixed ops every week the seat sat open.

We mapped 78 service directors and senior fixed ops leaders within a defined radius. Reached out to 22 directly. Pre-qualified 6. Latham Biggs sat across from the dealer principal in a single final-round interview and accepted the offer the same week. He was in the seat 30 days after our intake call.

30
Days to Placement
1
Final-Round Interview
0
Job Postings Run
Pricing

Two Ways to
Work Together.

Per-Placement
From $3,500 / role

Single-search engagement. You pay only when we place a candidate who stays past the 60-day guarantee period.

  • Onsite intake and market map
  • Direct passive candidate outreach
  • 3 to 5 pre-qualified finalists per role
  • 60-day replacement guarantee
  • 30/60/90-day check-ins after hire
  • Fee paid on placement, not on signing
Get Started

Tell Us About
Your Open Seats.

Share what you're trying to fill. We'll respond within one business day with a market read on candidate availability and timing. No sales pitch — just a real answer about whether we can help.

Max Q Recruiting takes on a limited number of active searches at a time to maintain placement quality.

Your information is kept confidential and used only to prepare for our call.