Choosing the right candidates to fill open positions is crucial to the Med Spa success and can make or break the business. However, hiring the best candidates is not as easy as it sounds. It is a process that requires experience and practice to master the skills needed for a smooth hire.
Here’s some advice on how to do that successfully:
Hiring Tip # 1: Define the job description clearly when advertising the position
Developing a clear job description is an important element of the hiring process. When creating a job description, there needs to be a detailed list of specific duties and responsibilities listed in their order of significance. Small Med Spa owners should prioritize this task and view it as time well spent since it will not only gather a pool of qualified candidates for the interview process, but it will also help align the people they employ with the goals, mission, and vision of the company. Furthermore, having a clear job description is essential to on boarding and training new hires and provides a basis for measuring their job performance in the future.
Hiring Tip #2: Adopt using a list of interview questions for each job description.
For objectivity reasons and to compare candidates in an apples-to-apples way, creating a list of questions ahead of time for each job description is an ideal way of conducting interviews. The questions would be based on the essential tasks listed in each job description and on the personality characteristics needed for optimal job performance. Adhering to the same list of questions, when documented properly, can also provide a legal defense for hiring discrimination claims, if ever needed.
Hiring Tip #3: Take your candidates on a center tour.
Taking candidates on a center tour and introducing them to colleagues would help in finding out how interested they are in the job and the team. Candidates who are passionate about their work would show curiosity about how to perform their job in the center settings. Effective team players would also be polite to their future colleagues, look them in the eye, and keep a conversation going when introduced to them.
Hiring Tip #4: Consider an on-the-job trial.
Some candidates may have practiced the best interview answers in advance which makes the decision making process even more challenging. Considering a job trial could be the ideal solution for improving the quality of hire. Job trials are usually offered to candidates who have killed it during their first interview, and now it is time to offer them the opportunity to walk the talk and showcase their skills. Planning ahead of time for the job trial is crucial to its success; for example, coordinating the candidate’s job trial with the team and informing all employees about it, even the ones who are not working that day, is a good best practice. Another best practice is creating a task for the candidate to complete so he/she can demonstrate the skills needed for that job in the completion of the task. Job trials will also aid in showing the hiring manager how well the candidate fits in with the team and the company’s culture.
The right hire is someone who has the right attitude and aptitude for the job and the desire to grow with their company. In the Med Spa field, as with any other service-based business, being specific about what personality traits and job-based skills are needed in a new hire coupled with an efficient hiring process will help fill the open positions with the right candidates and build a high performing team.
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