Hiring Great Salon Staff: Why You Shouldn’t Call a Reference

Standard practice in reference checking usually looks something like this: you’ve interviewed the candidate a couple of times, and they’ve made it to the reference-checking stage. They have provided you with 2 references, which you cold call. Half the time, it may feel like you are an inconvenience, but some boxes are ticked and that’s the end of the process. But in our experience, to hire great salon staff - and even employees in general - for reference checking to be really effective, the candidate must get their references to ring you.

Who wrote the article?

Barry Quinn is Chief Revenue Officer at Phorest Salon Software. His passion is to help salons reach their potential and grow revenue through retention marketing tools. Specialising in loyalty programmes and offering solutions in apps, online booking, online reputation management, SMS and email marketing, in his time as Loyalty Manager, Phorest Salon Software grew from 80K to 1.5 million (now 3+ million) end users in 5.5 years.

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Phorest Salon Software has more than 4,000 spas and salons as customers in Ireland, the UK, Finland and the USA. Forbes describes us as "the leading salon appointment and CRM software company." We help salon owners get their clients in more often, spending more and generating referrals. #LetsGrow

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