Lucyb123
Member
I’m writing this half ranting and half hoping that others feel the same way.
Recruitment for beauty therapists seems impossible at the moment. The standard of therapists who are finishing college is appalling. The attitude of young girls coming out of college is ‘can’t be bothered’ and their knowledge and skills is non existent - how do they pass their NVQ course?
We have been trying to recruit for nearly 2 years now. We offer a great rate of pay (above average), every other Saturday off, no Sunday working.
The demand for treatments is there but we just can’t get the staff.
Everyone seems to want more - more money, less hours, no evenings or weekends, doesn’t want to offer certain treatments, have a no can do attitude.
Even some of the therapists we have recruited didn’t work out - they turn up late, call in sick and the standard of treatments is not up to scratch - we are talking about an eyebrow shape and leaving half the hair there. It’s like they just don’t care.
I’m considering an apprentice, does anyone have experience of this. Im worried they’ll need a lot of time and training and at the moment because of how short staffed we are I haven’t got that to give.
Im working all the hours possible to try and cover but the reality is we need more staff and can’t find them!
Starting to feel is this industry sustainable anymore, with costs going up, we need to do more sales but without staff we can’t achieve this.
Thanks for listening
Recruitment for beauty therapists seems impossible at the moment. The standard of therapists who are finishing college is appalling. The attitude of young girls coming out of college is ‘can’t be bothered’ and their knowledge and skills is non existent - how do they pass their NVQ course?
We have been trying to recruit for nearly 2 years now. We offer a great rate of pay (above average), every other Saturday off, no Sunday working.
The demand for treatments is there but we just can’t get the staff.
Everyone seems to want more - more money, less hours, no evenings or weekends, doesn’t want to offer certain treatments, have a no can do attitude.
Even some of the therapists we have recruited didn’t work out - they turn up late, call in sick and the standard of treatments is not up to scratch - we are talking about an eyebrow shape and leaving half the hair there. It’s like they just don’t care.
I’m considering an apprentice, does anyone have experience of this. Im worried they’ll need a lot of time and training and at the moment because of how short staffed we are I haven’t got that to give.
Im working all the hours possible to try and cover but the reality is we need more staff and can’t find them!
Starting to feel is this industry sustainable anymore, with costs going up, we need to do more sales but without staff we can’t achieve this.
Thanks for listening