No Experience Necessary

snapdancer

snapdancer

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Saw the following posted on a Facebook dance-related forum. This studio has a reputation for high-pressure sales tactics pushing expensive long-term contracts for dance instruction.

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LOOKING FOR A HIGH ENERGY CAREER WITH FUN PEOPLE AND GREAT HOURS?

Enjoy Dancing? Want to do it as a Career?

{Studio Name} in {Location} now hiring Full Time Instructors.

No experience necessary, will provide on the job PAID training.

Hours are Monday through Thursday from 1pm to 9:30pm and Fridays from 5pm to 10:30pm.

Full benefits after 6 months including paid health insurance, paid vacation time, and 401k options.

Prerequisites: Must be 18 years of age or older with a High School Diploma and be able to work the hours listed above.

Please call {Studio Name} at ###-###-#### for more details or to set up an interview.
 
Apologies for the oversized fonts above. Tried to adjust, but I guess the forum software doesn't work will with cut-n-paste operations.
 
What am I missing...

For 95% of the population that wants to learn how to dance, the instructor only has to have a few months of experience. I can't speak to the high pressure sales but taking the ad at face value, I see no problems with it...
 
For the 95% of the population that wants to learn how to dance, a contract for thousands of dollars of overpriced private lessons is not necessary. I've encountered too many of their students who've taken lessons for months and years yet still are at the very beginning skill level.
 
snapdancer said:
For the 95% of the population that wants to learn how to dance, a contract for thousands of dollars of overpriced private lessons is not necessary. I've encountered too many of their students who've taken lessons for months and years yet still are at the very beginning skill level.
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Uhm excuse me.... you posted an ad, I commented on the ad without emotion.

"I've encountered too many of their students who've taken lessons for months and years yet still are at the very beginning skill level."

Yeah, I didn't read that in the ad...

Oh, during those "encounters" have you asked if they were happy? Because your opinion of their "very beginning skill level" may be the limit of their skill level...

Larinda, Sorry, I'll go stand in the corner now...
 
Agreed that everyone has to start somewhere. I don't think that "somewhere" is teaching private lessons for a fee charged by the studio that exceeds what more experienced teachers charge.

I've danced with some of their ladies who've taken private lessons at that studio for over a year and yet are no better than some who've had only group classes. And heard stories from dancers of moderate skills who tried them out and spent their evaluation package teaching the teacher. Understandable that they didn't sign up for more.
 
Why do AM ads always sound like McDonald's "Energetic, friendly faces needed!" ads? Going to the corner as well.
 
Food for thought..
Two of the greates dancers in U.S. dance history, were products of the Chain school. One reached 3rd in the world in Standard, and the other 8th in Latin.

Both were U.S. champions many times . There are numerous other e.g.
 
There should be an asterisk beside that factoid with a footnote "Results not typical." They also had other instruction beyond their chain studio roots. If that's where someone starts, it's great, but like someone else said, it's a dead horse to beat, so that's my cue to twirl out and curtsey from this one.
 
Silly me... I thought you were looking for a discussion about the AD.

I hate defending franchised studios (seems to be the assumption here) but do tell; Do you have any experience in staffing a studio?
 
I know this one!
Having some first-hand experience with the studio that uses high-pressure sales tactics to lure people into expensive contracts, and also having met some of those energetic, friendly faces of newbie instructors they were paying to learn on the job, I'm gonna say that if you shell out the kind of money they are asking, you want top-notch instruction, at the very least, not a novice who knows less than you do.
I did not get any of the juniors as teachers, but I did experience them in group/practice settings, and they did indeed know less than I did. None of them lasted long.
That's what's wrong with the ad.
 
Wolfgang said:
I know this one!
Having some first-hand experience with the studio that uses high-pressure sales tactics to lure people into expensive contracts, and also having met some of those energetic, friendly faces of newbie instructors they were paying to learn on the job, I'm gonna say that if you shell out the kind of money they are asking, you want top-notch instruction, at the very least, not a novice who knows less than you do.
I did not get any of the juniors as teachers, but I did experience them in group/practice settings, and they did indeed know less than I did. None of them lasted long.
That's what's wrong with the ad.
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Whatever... but that has nothing to do with the ad.
 
Ok so not to discuss the merits of where teachers start or continue to train, and not to discuss whether all students should be above average by a certain time ... but rather to discuss the AD...

What exactly is wrong with it??
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It's not the ad, it's the context. Such as the training they receive, and how much their students are charged to reproduce that training on them.
 
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