beauty salon managertospa manager
A beauty salon manager already meets 62% of what the spa manager role asks for. The move turns on 14 required skills not yet in the profile.
62%
52.7/ 100
1 Share of the spa manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the beauty salon manager profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A spa manager role treats 32 of its required skills as things a beauty salon manager already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- communication principles
- corporate social responsibility
- create solutions to problems
- customer relationship management
- customer service
- develop recreation programmes
What stands in the way is 14 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 37 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A spa manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a beauty salon manager background worth leading with.
- already held manage recreational facility management skills
- already held supervise the management of an establishment management skills
- already held develop recreation programmes management skills
- already held manage customer service management skills
- already held schedule recreation facilities management skills
- already held manage payroll management skills
All 37 carried skills, including the 32 the spa manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 33 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held plan spa services required
- required, not held discharge employees required
- required, not held lead a team required
- required, not held plan shifts of employees required
- optional, not held manage inventory optional
- optional, not held administer appointments optional
- optional, not held assess employees' capability levels optional
- optional, not held coordinate advertising campaigns optional
- optional, not held coordinate events optional
- optional, not held create a financial plan optional
- optional, not held evaluate employees optional
- optional, not held fix meetings optional
- optional, not held manage profitability optional
- required, not held keep up to date with spa products required
- required, not held oversee spa maintenance required
- required, not held produce sales reports required
- required, not held analyse goal progress required
- optional, not held measure customer feedback optional
- required, not held ensure infrastructure accessibility required
- required, not held respond to customers' inquiries required
- optional, not held interview people optional
- optional, not held promote cultural venue events optional
- optional, not held manage workflow processes optional
- optional, not held sell products optional
- optional, not held sell services optional
- optional, not held sell tickets optional
- required, not held company policies required
- optional, not held accounting optional
- optional, not held advertising techniques optional
- required, not held inform customers of activity changes required
- required, not held meet picking standards required
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a spa manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 company policies knowledge · sector specific
- 02 keep up to date with spa products skill · sector specific
- 03 oversee spa maintenance skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 37 skills that carry over
- already held communication principles knowledge
- already held corporate social responsibility knowledge
- already held create solutions to problems skill
- already held customer relationship management knowledge
- already held customer service knowledge
- already held develop recreation programmes skill
- already held develop revenue generation strategies skill
- already held establish daily priorities skill
- already held follow company standards skill
- already held guarantee customer satisfaction skill
- already held handle customer complaints skill
- already held identify customer's needs skill
- already held liaise with local authorities skill
- already held liaise with managers skill
- already held manage budgets skill
- already held manage customer service skill
- already held manage health and safety standards skill
- already held manage logistics skill
- already held manage recreational facility skill
- already held manage staff skill
- already held manage supplies skill
- already held product comprehension knowledge
- already held promote recreation activities skill
- already held recreation activities knowledge
- already held recruit employees skill
- already held represent the organisation skill
- already held schedule recreation facilities skill
- already held set organisational policies skill
- already held supervise daily information operations skill
- already held supervise the management of an establishment skill
- already held supervise work skill
- already held train employees skill
- already held bookkeeping regulations knowledge
- already held implement marketing strategies skill
- already held manage payroll skill
- already held order supplies skill
- already held plan health and safety procedures skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- required, not held types of spa required
- optional, not held counselling methods optional
19 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held interview people optional
- optional, not held manage inventory optional
- optional, not held promote cultural venue events optional
- optional, not held accounting optional
- optional, not held administer appointments optional
- optional, not held advertising techniques optional
- optional, not held assess employees' capability levels optional
- optional, not held coordinate advertising campaigns optional
- optional, not held coordinate events optional
- optional, not held counselling methods optional
- optional, not held create a financial plan optional
- optional, not held evaluate employees optional
- optional, not held fix meetings optional
- optional, not held manage profitability optional
- optional, not held manage workflow processes optional
- optional, not held measure customer feedback optional
- optional, not held sell products optional
- optional, not held sell services optional
- optional, not held sell tickets optional
28 held skills the spa manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role advise customers on usage of cosmetics skill
- not needed by the target role analyse business plans skill
- not needed by the target role communicate with customers skill
- not needed by the target role cosmetics knowledge
- not needed by the target role develop organisational policies skill
- not needed by the target role develop professional network skill
- not needed by the target role develop working procedures skill
- not needed by the target role ensure compliance with company regulations skill
- not needed by the target role greet guests skill
- not needed by the target role issue sales invoices skill
- not needed by the target role keep stock records skill
- not needed by the target role maintain professional administration skill
- not needed by the target role maintain relationship with customers skill
- not needed by the target role maintain relationship with suppliers skill
- not needed by the target role manage a small-to-medium business skill
- not needed by the target role manage cleaning activities skill
- not needed by the target role manage emergency evacuation plans skill
- not needed by the target role manage schedule of tasks skill
- not needed by the target role maximise sales revenues skill
- not needed by the target role monitor stock level skill
- not needed by the target role offer free samples of cosmetics skill
- not needed by the target role plan medium to long term objectives skill
- not needed by the target role provide cost benefit analysis reports skill
- not needed by the target role quality standards knowledge
- not needed by the target role recommend cosmetics to customers skill
- not needed by the target role report on overall management of a business skill
- not needed by the target role salon management knowledge
- not needed by the target role sell cosmetics skill
5 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held company policies required
- required, not held types of spa required
- optional, not held accounting optional
- optional, not held advertising techniques optional
- optional, not held counselling methods optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.