How to hire a Beauty Advisor

How to hire a beauty advisor, step by step

Here's a step-by-step beauty advisor hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a beauty advisor job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new beauty advisor
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   First, determine the employments status of the beauty advisor you need to hire. Certain beauty advisor roles might require a full-time employee, whereas others can be done by part-time workers or contractors.

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   You should also consider the ideal background you'd like them a beauty advisor to have before you start to hire. For example, what industry or field would you like them to have experience in, what level of seniority or education does the job require, and how much it'll cost to hire a beauty advisor that fits the bill.

   Here's a comparison of beauty advisor salaries for various roles:

   Type Of Beauty Advisor	Description	Hourly Rate
   Beauty Advisor	Retail sales workers include both those who sell retail merchandise, such as clothing, furniture, and automobiles, (called retail salespersons) and those who sell spare and replacement parts and equipment, especially car parts (called parts salespersons). Both types of workers help customers find the products they want and process customers’ payments.	$13-21
   Product Consultant	A product consultant is a professional who collaborates with client managers and project managers to analyze client requirements and provide optimal products. Product consultants are required to leverage industry and product knowledge to answer customer inquiries and provide customer consultations... Show More	$32-62
   Retail Sales Representative	A retail salesperson's responsibility is to sell products and provide necessary information to the consumers to convince them of availing items. Retail salesperson's duties include coordinating with promotional programs, recommending strategies to increase sales, answering customer's inquiries, and escalating any concerns to the management that might affect the company's sales performance... Show More	$13-24

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common Skills:

   • Product Knowledge
   • Make-Up
   • Basic Math
   • Beauty Products
   • Cleanliness
   • Math
   • Identify Business
   • Customer Service
   • Ladders
   • Excellent Client
   • Retail Sales
   • Punctuality
   • Sales Floor
   • Hygiene Standards

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   Responsibilities:

   • Assist customers in choosing fragrance, hair, and beauty products using information learned for this purpose.
   • Register experience checking out customers, able to do mental math when need.
   • Start off as a seasonal sales associate in the men and women fragrance department.
   • Provide exceptional and professional customer service for the luxury brand of Chanel in skincare and cosmetics.
   • Perform makeovers on clients, maintain appearance of store by cleaning and stocking, used POS system and cash register
   • Assist the counter manager in whatever tasks need, inventory, stock management, POS skills, special store events.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your beauty advisor job description is one of the best ways to attract top talent. A beauty advisor can vary based on:

   • Location. For example, beauty advisors' average salary in alabama is 47% less than in washington.
   • Seniority. Entry-level beauty advisors 36% less than senior-level beauty advisors.
   • Certifications. A beauty advisor with certifications usually earns a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for an established firm or a new start-up company can make a big difference in a beauty advisor's salary.

   Average beauty advisor salary

   $35,298yearly

   $16.97 hourly rate

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   Entry-level beauty advisor salary

   $28,000 yearly salary

   Updated March 31, 2025

4. Writing a Beauty Advisor Job Description

   A job description for a beauty advisor role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a beauty advisor job description:

   Beauty Advisor job description example

   By fulfilling the main mission of this role, you will contribute to all of the 5 pillars of strategy: people-centric, brand-builder, consumer-obsessed, digitally minded, and commitment to responsible beauty.

   · Achieve sales targets and hourly productivity goals set forth by Clarins and Retailer.

   · Partner with the Retailer to help develop customer loyalty to the Brand, the Department and the Store.

   · Greet each customer warmly and provide courteous, professional and seamless personalized service.

   · Conduct Skin Time Consultations for customers; offer advice and apply/demonstrate Clarins products.

   · Plan and execute events (if applicable) and create daily animations to recruit new customers (minimum 2 per day per Beauty Advisor). Plan and prepare for Client Relationship Specialist team (where applicable).

   · Perform Skin Time Facial Treatments at the counter every day; (minimum 2 per day with a minimum AUS of $175 and minimum IPT of 3)

   · Use the Business Planner to record/track sales and be aware of weekly and monthly sales trends in order to adjust sales goals accordingly.

   · Maintain, develop and execute the Retailer Client Recall Systems to maximize customer base, recall, replenishment & events. Register all clients and collect necessary information to build our client base.

   You are:

   · Customer-focused, results-oriented and brand addicted

   · Comfortable demonstrating products on the customer

   · Customer service oriented

   · Confident, positive and self-motivated

   You have:

   · Prior sales and cosmetics experience

   · Good interpersonal skills and strong background in skincare

   · Languages: Bilingual - English and Spanish (required)

   · Ability to create activity and animation

   
   

   We have:

   · Standout brands: Clarins, My Blend

   · Distinctive, high-quality products and services

   · A longstanding commitment to social, economic and ecological initiatives

   · Growth opportunities

   · Learning & Development

   · An attractive compensation and benefits package

   If you have a curious mind and are always questioning how things can be done better, the ability to take risks and accept new challenges, join us!

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5. Post your job

   There are various strategies that you can use to find the right beauty advisor for your business:

   • Consider promoting from within or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to find candidates who meet your education requirements.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your beauty advisor job on Zippia to find and recruit beauty advisor candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting beauty advisors requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents. You can move on to the technical interview if a candidate is good enough for the next step.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new beauty advisor

   Once you've found the beauty advisor candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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