Enterprise to Hire 8K US College Grads

More than 5,800 Enterprise Rent-A-Car locations throughout the U.S. plan to hire 8,500 college graduates into the renowned Enterprise Management Training program and 2,000 interns into the Management Internship program this year. And for the first time, ties are not required.

“This more flexible dress code is in line with our evolving work environment and represents our commitment to our employees, whose feedback prompted this change,” said Shelley Roither, vice president of Human Resources at Enterprise Holdings. “The new dress code will enable our teams to take care of their customers while still maintaining a professional image.”

Enterprise also announced that it will be hiring more than 500 college graduates in Canada for its Enterprise Management Training program and 100 interns into the Management Internship. 

Enterprise Holdings Inc.’s regional subsidiaries employ 100,000 people worldwide.

In fiscal year 2017 alone, Enterprise Holdings grew total revenues 6.5% to $22.3 billion and expanded its network to include 9,900 fully staffed neighborhood and airport locations in more than 90 countries throughout the world. Enterprise’s total revenues have more than doubled during the last decade along with overall fleet size – now nearly 1.9 million vehicles. In addition, since 2007, the company has grown its share of the U.S. airport market 10 percentage points.

To support this growth, Enterprise branch offices hire thousands of college-educated, career-oriented men and women into the Enterprise Management Training program each year. This program teaches employees how to run a business, empower teams and provide excellent face-to-face customer service. Other hallmarks of the program include extensive training in a wide range of business skills, including profit and loss management, business-to-business marketing and sales, and operational logistics.

In 2018, CollegeGrad.com ranked Enterprise Rent-A-Car the No.1 Entry-Level Employer, marking the 11th time Enterprise has earned that distinction. The Top Entry-Level Employers list represents nearly 135,000 job opportunities in the U.S. for the class of 2018.

Over the years, Enterprise has been widely recognized for employment and recruiting practices in Canada, including receiving a North American Candidate Experience Award from Talent Board; a TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Award for Best Grad Program; and a Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers Excellence in Innovation Award for its careers site. Additionally, Enterprise is a multi-year award recipient of the “50 Best Employers in Canada” by the Globe and Mail Report on Business magazine.

Most recently, Enterprise has been recognized as one of The Best Places to Work in Canada by the popular job-finding site Indeed and is the only car rental company named one of the best employers in the Greater Toronto Area by Mediacorp Canada Inc., in its 2018 Greater Toronto’s Top Employers competition.

A key part of the Enterprise culture is a strong promote-from-within philosophy that’s been driven over the years by the Enterprise Management Training program, which has been consistently successful in developing new hires into the next generation of business leaders.

In fact, most of the company’s top executives got their start in the Management Training program, including Enterprise Holdings’ President and Chief Executive Officer Pam Nicholson, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Christine Taylor, and Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the Enterprise Holdings Foundation Carolyn Kindle Betz.

In 2017, more than 16,000 Enterprise, National, and Alamo employees were promoted or took on new challenges in various positions throughout the world, contributing to new opportunities for existing management trainees and the need to add even more talented employees.

This story was updated June 6 to include information about Enterprise's Canadian hiring efforts. 

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