Ep. 160 Recruiting in Today’s Ag Industry

Agriculture Technology Podcast

RDO Equipment Co.

Technology

4.2 • 48 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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RDO Recruiting Program Manager Andy Luikens joins host Tony Kramer to discuss career opportunities in the equipment industry. Visit www.rdoequipment.com/more/resources/podcasts to find and view this episode's transcript. ----- Missed an episode? Get caught up by visiting the Episode Archive on our website: www.rdoequipment.com/more/resources/podcasts ----- Each month, we share the latest in agriculture technology. Don’t miss an episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Have a story idea or a precision ag topic we should highlight? Connect with us on social media: Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter and connect with podcast host, Tony Kramer on Twitter at: (at)RDOTonyK. ---- Visit us at rdoequipment.com to find all episodes of the podcast, learn more about Precision Agriculture solutions from RDO's team of experts, or browse new and used farm equipment.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Tony Kramer with RDO Equipment Company. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Agriculture Technology podcast.
0:08.0	Every day there are phenomenal advancements being made in the field of agriculture technology.
0:13.0	RDO equipment company is a leader in agriculture equipment and precision agriculture technology and is here with industry experts springing the latest news and information from RDO and John
0:21.5	Deere.
0:22.5	Hello and welcome back to the show. This is episode 160. Welcome to the new year. Welcome to a new
0:30.4	season of the Agriculture Technology podcast. This is season number seven. Wow. We are on episode 160, seven seasons into it, six seasons recorded, working on seventh season.
0:44.0	This is awesome.
0:45.5	In this episode, we are going to sit down with Andy Lukens and talk a little bit about some of the struggles in recruitment of service technician in today's world and how technology
0:56.7	plays a role in finding the right people for the right job.
1:01.1	You know, one of the questions I always wonder is what can young aspiring technicians or
1:07.7	anybody in the ag industry, what can they do today to help make decisions for their
1:13.1	future? Andy, Big Andy, seven-foot cowboy, what are we going to call you? Welcome to the show.
1:20.7	Hey, hey, thanks, Tony. It's great to be here. They do call me RDO Big Andy, and that's just because
1:26.9	I stand seven feet tall, but I've got another alias that we won't get into too much, the seven-foot cowboy.
1:32.9	But absolutely awesome to join you today and talk a little bit about recruiting.
1:37.9	Great. Before we dive into it, Andy, tell us a little bit about yourself, you know, kind of how you got to where you are today.
1:43.8	Yeah, so I started and grew up in the equipment industry.
1:49.3	My father was a parts manager for 40 years and then a store manager as well.
1:55.7	And so I kind of knew this business a little bit, but I didn't go home to take over the store or anything
2:01.4	like that. I went to college and started working in academics and was actually helping students
2:07.0	figure out what they were going to do for school. And did that both at four-year and two-year
2:11.3	institutions and started to realize that the two-year colleges and the four-year colleges were
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