Enterprise Rent A Car

Graduate Management Trainees

If your dream is to one day number amongst the best in business, you need to talk to the people who are already there. After all, we’ve developed a business with a global turnover of more than $12 billion, plus 3,400 people in Ireland alone.

 Our Management Training Programme is just as exciting. For a start, you’ll be surrounded by one of the friendliest, encouraging and ambitious teams around. They’re the kind of people who aren't just out to do well for themselves either – the fact is, they’re totally committed to going the extra mile for each other and our customers too. Perhaps that’s why we’re consistently recognised throughout the industry as a leader for quality service.

 As well as working with and learning from a great team, you’ll also benefit from an excellent range of training and development opportunities as you embark on one of the fastest routes to management around. And while the challenges can be tough, you’ll find we believe in having fun too. Because when you’re happy, we know that you learn more and progress faster.

On the Enterprise management training programme, you’ll join one of our branches as a management trainee, and start learning all the business skills you need to run it yourself. This gives you the chance to develop skills in all areas, from sales and marketing to customer service and finance – something that really does make ours a general management scheme.

After an initial classroom-based orientation session, you’ll be assigned to a branch office for the hands-on business training, which includes:

• Management skills: leadership, training, mentoring, people skills and soft skills, and looking at the big picture.
• Business management: cost control, profits, growth, account management, employee development, and administrative skills.
• Marketing: how to gain new customers both retail and corporate, how to manage dealerships, and run body-shop accounts.
• Sales: how to increase revenue by generating more sales.
• Customer service: taking reservations, handling customer enquiries, problem solving and delivering cars to customers.
• Fleet control: how to handle repairs, and getting the right number and type of cars in your fleet.

There’s also the opportunity to specialise if you find an area of the business you’re particularly interested in, for example HR, Marketing or Finance, to name just a few.

Career progression

You’ll start off as a management trainee with a competitive income, assigned to a branch to learn all about the business. Within as little as eight to twelve months you can complete your training and move up to a management assistant. From there in your next year you can complete your training. From there, an assistant manager role beckons. And there, you’ll also receive a percentage of the profits generated by your branch, which means your earnings will be directly related to your performance.

Throughout our graduate programme, there’s a series of carefully monitored tests and evaluations, after which you’ll receive pay increases, rewards, and more opportunities for promotion. You’ll almost certainly be a branch manager within just two years of starting, and after that it’s up to you how fast you move – there’s area manager, city manager, general manager and then…you take over the world. Well, we are a global company after all.

We take great care in our recruitment process to find the ideal candidates. It’s not all about us either. We want you to have the chance to find out what we’re all about, and see if a graduate career at Enterprise is right for you.

So, if you do decide a graduate career with Enterprise is right for you, there are four main steps you’ll need to take. Here’s a little more about each:

Online application form

This is the first step which takes about 30 minutes to complete. As well as telling us lots about you, it helps us identify the kind of competencies that we look for in our management trainees. You can expect to hear from us within 48 hours of submitting your application online.

Meet a recruiter

If your application’s successful, you’ll hear from one of our recruiters, who’ll arrange to meet with you in person and tell you more about joining us as a management trainee.

Visit a branch

To help you get to know us a little more, we’ll invite you to visit one of our branches. It’s a great chance to meet some of our people and have an interview with the branch manager.

Assessment day

Finally, you will be invited to one of our assessment days. This really is your chance to shine. Over the course of the day, you’ll tackle a number of exercises designed around life at Enterprise. Don’t worry – it’s not too formal and most of our applicants agree it’s a great way to experience being a management trainee.