Alloy Personal Training Business

How to Recruit and Hire Great Talent

Dec 14, 2022

42:31

Recruiting the best staff for your fitness business is arguably the single most important factor that will determine your success as a business owner.

However, as any fitness entrepreneur will tell you, finding, hiring, and retaining the best talent in our industry is a big challenge.

In this episode, Rick speaks to Jessie Stackhouse, founder of Just Fitness Staffing, about recruiting for a fitness business.

She is Alloy’s one and only vendor for talent acquisition in the fitness space.

Jessie shares what she is seeing out there in the talent market and some of the things you can do to make yourself attractive to great candidates.

The fitness talent market is very different post-Covid. You can no longer rely on posting open positions on job boards and expect to find great candidates.

You have to do more.

Luckily, Jessie is here to share some secrets to help you.

Tune in!

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Key Takeaways

- Jessie’s background in the fitness space (01:26)

- The challenge of fitness staffing (11:44)

- How Jessie manages to find good candidates (12:49)

- Why there’s a shortage of applicants for fitness positions (15:14)

- Building a team for a franchise business (17:40)

- Why it’s hard to find talent post-Covid (21:39)

- How to get people interested in your job (25:58)