Salon owners: Would you hire a stylist that refuses to do perms?

PIcture this: Full service salon. Enough employees. Newly hired stylist who hates/isn't comfortable doing perms. Would you let her stay or let her go?Salon owners: Would you hire a stylist that refuses to do perms?
If all her other skills were up to snuff or superior then I'd keep her....especially if she has a loyal clientele. Not everyone is comfortable with being a 'Jane of all Trades'....besides wouldn't you rather have someone admit that they don't think they'd do a decent job...and hand it off to someone in your salon who is? A satisfied client tells 3 people....a dissatisfied one tells at least 10!





From a management perspective, it may mean ensuring that you've always got a 'perm person' in the shop...but it also means you've got a new marketing angle you can work. What does she do that's better than anyone else? Are her colouring skills beyond belief? Best ******** with a dryer you've ever seen? If so, then starting tooting her horn...every customer wants to 'know' that they've got an expert working on them...that being said we all know that perception is everything.





Look at this as an opportunity.....if the stylist is otherwise p for perfect, keep her, find an angle and get the most mileage out of it.





Good Luck.Salon owners: Would you hire a stylist that refuses to do perms?
I agree!! A satisfied client tells 3 people....a dissatisfied one tells at least 10!


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Everyone has their specialties. If that employee does not want to do perms then she shouldnt have to. If the person who hired her knew this prior to hiring the stylist, why should it be a problem?
no way! if i have a salon i have to have a stylist that can do anything.
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Let her go...if you're the boss and there's tons of people that want a job as a hairstylist, then each one of your employees should do what they're told! If one hairstylist doesn't want to do perms, then fire her and hire someone whose willing to do perms and whatever else they're supposed to do at that salon.
The owner has to look at the full profit potential to answer this. There's lots more money to be made in giving highlights than in giving perms. Let her do the highlights -- both of you will make more money that way.





Is this in any way related to pharmacists who refuse to fill a birth control prescription for single women on the grounds that sex before marriage is fornication?
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