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Our mission is to prepare professionals to
succeed at all levels and types of retail operations. The ATC
is creating a talent pool, helping fill the pipeline with qualified
service and management candidates— not only for our own
dealers but for the entire automotive industry. |
James E. Press
Executive Vice President and COO
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. |
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Each year, the auto repair and service industry
faces a shortage of 60,000 trained technicians. To help close
this gap, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS) joined with
the Los Angeles Urban League to establish the Los Angeles Urban
League Automotive Training Center (ATC), a nonprofit, state-of-the-art
facility that provides vocational training in a real world environment.
Since 1993, TMS has invested more than $7.4 million in the ATC.
Having established employment partnerships with more than 60
automotive service companies throughout Los Angeles County,
the ATC has earned an outstanding reputation for recruiting,
training, and placing workers. More than 900 students have graduated
from the program, which maintains a job placement rate of 80%.
Toyota and its affiliate companies employ more than 28,000 people
in the United States. Because of the Center's success,
TMS plans to support another training facility in the East.
TMS is a member of the National
Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and is featured in their report
The
Skills Gap 2001.
Hear Phyllis Eisen,
Executive Director of the National Association of Manufacturers’
Center for Workforce Success, discuss Toyota at "Business with
a New Beat 2002," a Journalists Roundtable (13 MB)
For more information please contact Jessica Hurley at Toyota
Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc.
at (310) 468-7999 or
Jessica_Hurley@toyota.com.
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