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Oct 2023
Jobs on offer with growing brand for hairdressers who listen
This story is sponsored by Allertons.
A hairdressing brand due to open new beauty rooms in Harrogate this month is looking to recruit more staff across all its branches.
Allertons’ flagship salon is the highest rated in Leeds, and it also has concessions in John Lewis stores in Leeds and Nottingham, with a third due to open in Southampton in November. The Harrogate salon is due to open its brand-new beauty rooms by the end of October.
The company currently has 19 vacancies for hairdressers and beauticians, as well as six client concierge roles.
Nick Nicola, who founded the company in 2014, said there was a constant requirement for hairdressers and beauticians, but that they needed to be attuned to the company’s ethos:
Allertons gives 30% of the profit generated for the company to the person who generated it, so a good hairdresser can earn up to £40,000 a year.
In addition, employees receive health insurance, funded training on new techniques and equipment, free hairdressing and treatments, and a ‘friends and family’ discount. Those working in one of the concessions also get discount at John Lewis.
Nick said it was important that candidates were able to ditch their ego and maintain an “old school” approach to customer service:
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