” Developing your championship team takes preparation and time — so does recruitment of talent.”
Finding committed professionals to add to your team is a major challenge facing salon owners. Sadly many salon owners take a hit and miss approach to hiring people, only to regret their hiring decision at a later date.
Finding and attracting committed professionals to choose from will require organization, commitment and ongoing effort on your part.
The following tips will help you meet this challenge and give you more options and choices when you want to add a new member to your team.
This is about recruiting your championship team, not someone else’s. Honesty and a code of ethics is the only way to build and grow a business.
Recruitment Brochure – toot your horn; sell the benefits of working at your salon. Example: you offer education and educational guidance. You offer mentoring, a positive and professional salon environment, upscale clientele, measured flow of customers based on their development and understanding of your quality control standards, to name a few.
Advisory Board – get involved with your local beauty schools and offer your services as a member of their advisory board.
Guest Speaker – offer to be a speaker during the theory portion of their class offering tips on how to influence the owner when seeking employment. Share your story.
Educational class – offer a free educational class one evening by you or a member of your team. You can promote your free class during one of your guest speaker appearance at your local beauty schools . Make sure you design a very professional looking flyer to pass out after your presentation.
Social media – take advantage of all the opportunities social media offers like face book, twitter, etc.
Video – film your own video commercial using you tube, then link to your Facebook business fan page and web site
Incentives – offer a signing bonus if your new member to your team exceed your six month probation period.
Talent is available; your challenge is to make a firm commitment and effort when seeking new members to your team. This, system works with new fresh young talent, it is much easier to mold young talent into your team culture.
Don’t dismiss experienced talent as long as they are willing to share your goals, vision, and quality control standards.
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