Stand Out from the Crowd to Recruit New Grads
From snow cones to Tarot card readings, a Colorado salon shows its fun side to attract young stylists.
The Five Most Common Misconceptions Salon Owners Have About the Great Resignation
There's a shortage of willing workers. Work ethic isn't what it used to be. In a provocative, thought-leader piece, Boulevard's Shanalie Wijesinghe addresses some common misconceptions about your ability to recruit and retain your team members.
Referral Programs Bring in New Guests and Team Members
An Aveda Lifestyle Salon finds success with both a modern digital idea and an old-school networking concept.
A New Approach to Growth and Culture for Your Salon
Your new hires are the key to your future growth and success. The best way to keep a constant stream of them filling your salon is to own your own school, which also gives you an additional revenue stream.
6 Steps to Hiring Success
Eufora Business Trainer and salon owner, Tiffany Ward, shares how she beats the traditional hiring blues.
Don't Burn Bridges
Holding a grudge against a former team member might make you miss a valuable opportunity. These owners know rehiring can be an impactful recruitment strategy that further strengthens your culture.
How to Recruit Salon/Spa Employees Post Pandemic
Recruiting talent to help you grow into the future has always been a challenge, but it's even harder now with the tight labor market. Strategies' Neil Ducoff shares seven recruitment factors to reevaluate to strengthen your efforts.
by Neil Ducoff
How to Organize a Salon Crawl
In an effort to boost staff recruitment and retention rates, six salons in Greenville, South Carolina, band together and organize a Salon Crawl for area cosmetology students.
by Stacey Soble
Silver Salon's 7 Step Interviewing Process
Recruiting and hiring your salon's next generation of team members is perhaps your most important role in developing your long-term growth. Owner and Coach Evan Silver lends a helping hand by sharing his 7-step hiring process to help ensure you identify the best candidates for your cutlure.
Match Makers: How to Recruit and Retain Talent in These Turbulent Times
With cosmetology schools and the students they graduate on the decline and competition for talent ramping up, salon owners are finding it increasingly more challenging to recruit and retain talent. That perfect storm is encouraging many salons to get creative when it comes to connecting with emerging talent while solidifying the cultures that keep new hires on staff long term.
by Anne Moratto
Sam Brocato Salon Lures New Recruits with Team Testimonial Video
A microphone, a ring light, an iPhone and your team. That's all you need to make a recruitment video like Sam Brocato Salon did to lure in the next wave of new hires.
by Stacey Soble
The Manager of a Hybrid Salon Takes on SALON TODAY Questions
As a recent panelist on SALON TODAY's webinar about different compensation models, Jen LeBlanc described how she manages a commission-based salon and a salon suite business, located in the same shopping plaza. Our listeners had more questions for LeBlanc than we had time for, so she graciously answers them here.
by Stacey Soble
Why Schools Are the Key to Recruiting & Retaining Stylists
As part of SALON TODAY’s Burning Questions series, Jill Krahn with Salon Professional Education Company offers a strategic key to retaining stylists and their clients.
Innovating Education: News Ideas to Host Training & Connect Students
How are you hosting education? Can students learn online? How do you train staff while also social distancing? Beauty Backbone’s Karla Lopez-Martinez provides solutions to these burning questions.
5 Strategies for Recruiting in Good Times & Bad
As part of our Burning Questions series, Neil Ducoff of Strategies provides staff recruitment and retention solutions that work in pandemic times and beyond.
Why You Should Pay It Forward and Be Someone's Beauty Mentor
The real value of mentoring is sharing you’ve been there, you know how it feels, and you made it, —so, go for it.
Planning Your Future: Is A 401K An Important Perk?
Getting employees to appreciate the importance of THE FUTURE with a 401K plan is the goal of Arik Efros, co-owner of the Eva Scrivo Salon. Efros outlines the importance of this perk and explains why many of the people in their NYC salon have already a nice bundle waiting for them upon retirement.