Massage Job Interview Questions
by Ariana Vincent
(Austin, Texas and Online)
A few more questions for the already wonderful and comprehensive list of questions to ask prospective employers...
1. Will I be required to perform janitorial services? If so, what are they and how will I be compensated?
2. How are the appointments booked by the receptionists? Are appointments booked in order of seniority or is another system in place?
3. What is my comprehensive compensation package? First wait for a response and if the following items are not covered in the employer's response, ask these questions. How much will I be paid while I am offering massage therapy services? How much will I be paid while I am in the office waiting in between appointments? How much will I be paid if I am on call outside of the office? What percentage of the gratuities will I receive? What percentage of sales of products will I receive? Will I receive an end-of-year bonus? What type of vacation plan may I expect to receive? Do you offer maternity leave and/or sick leave? After what period of time might I expect a salary increase?
4. What type of system is in place for reimbursement for educational expenses, including, but not limited to the acquisition of CE hours required to maintain my license?
5. Will I be assigned a designated treatment room on a consistent basis or will I be required to move from room to room during the course of the day?
6. If the spa or clinic begins offering new services (for example, Aromatherapy or Hot Stone Therapy) and I would like to offer those services, what are the requirements to be "checked off" on those services so I can offer them at the spa or clinic?
7. If the treatment room is very cold or very hot, does management provide a small space heater or a small oscillating fan for the treatment room for the comfort of the client and the comfort of the therapist?
8. How often are group meetings held, how long are the meetings, are therapists allowed to fully participate in a dialogue in the meetings, and are therapists paid to attend the meetings?
9. How much time does the therapist have between appointments to exit the current client, change the linens, straighten the room, and prepare for the next client? Is additional time allocated if the therapist has performed a hot stone session and needs to clean and sanitize the stones after the treatment?
10. What can I do to be most supportive to management and to my fellow therapist in this environment?
On another note, here are some of my favorite team building quotes:
Except for one trifling exception, the entire universe is composed of others. - John Holmes
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock
It is possible, now more than ever, to see that our own growth is rooted in, and furthers, the whole world’s advance. - George Leonard
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. - Margaret Carty
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. - Henry Ford
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. - Napoleon Hill
Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence. - Anonymous
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team. - Bud Wilkinson
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. - Michael Jordan
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. - Brian Tracy
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit. - Sandra Swinney
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi
I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team. - Lee Iacocca
You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough. - Robert Crandall
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. - Michael Jordan
You will find people who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. - Henry Ford
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game. - Tom Landry
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team. - Lewis B. Ergen
A championship team is a team of champions. - Unknown
Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we. - Unknown
Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. - Unknown
Teams share the burden and divide the grief. - Doug Smith
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbor
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues. - Lee Iacocca
Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win- win basis. - W. Edward Deming
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. - Babe Ruth
A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way. - Swahili proverb
A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is also a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken! - Bonnie Edelstein
We are most effective as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear. - Unknown
Wearing the same shirts doesn’t make a team. - Buchholz and Roth
The basic building block of good teambuilding is for a leader to promote the feeling that every human being is unique and adds value. - Unknown
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. - Michael Jordan
None of us is as smart as all of us. - Ken Blanchard
No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. - Stephen Covey
If you don’t kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around. - John Wheeler
In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly. - Mark Sanborn
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. - Joe Paterno
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skill of the others. - Norman S. Hidle
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Alexis Carrel
The greatest danger a team faces isn’t that it won’t become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve. - Mark Sanborn
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. - Confucius
