The Blowout Vol 9

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Every job has bad days… that's not the question. The question is whether you're in a rough patch or a rough situation. Because those two things look almost identical from the inside and they are not the same thing at all.

This one's about learning to tell them apart. Plus a couple of things on SalonJobs worth knowing about.

Let's get into it.

Slow season or toxic job? How to actually tell

Every end of summer or winter people start eyeing the door. Book thins out, tips get sad, and somewhere around the second dead Friday your brain decides the whole place is the problem. Maybe it is! But sometimes it's just the calendar messing with your head.

Slow is just a thing that happens. Especially July through August or January through March. That dead zone where everyone and their mother are sun bathing all day; or after everyone's blown their holiday money.  The whole industry feels it at once, which is actually the thing to pay attention to.

A toxic job doesn't care what month it is.

That's the real difference. A slow season affects everyone's paycheck. A toxic job affects how you feel walking through the door. You notice it before you notice it in your bank account. It's the pit in your stomach on Sunday night. The look from the senior stylist in the break room. The group chat you somehow weren't part of.

When it's just a slow season, the whole team is in it together. Everyone's reorganizing the backbar, restocking color for the fourth time, waiting for the phones to pick back up. But if you're the only one whose hours keep getting cut, the only one not getting the walk-ins, and nobody will give you a straight answer why, that's probably not the season talking. That's the job.

The cleanest test I know: picture the place packed. Fully booked, money good. Would you actually be happy? If the busy version still sounds miserable, the money was never the problem.

Don't torch something decent over a bad month. But don't sit in something that's quietly wrecking you and call it a rough patch either.

Job hunting without actually job hunting

Big news on our end: SalonJobs is now backed by Mangomint, the booking and Your SalonJobs Profile is like a storefront window. You know how the best salons keep their lights on and their window styled even after close? Someone walks by at 9pm, sees it, remembers it, comes back. Your profile does the same thing, except it's working while you're with clients, while you're at the beach, while you're very much not thinking about job hunting.

Here's what that means in practice: You don't have to be actively applying for salons to find you. Owners browse. They see a profile that shows who you are, your work, your vibe, what you're about, and they reach out. 

The Resume Builder got smarter

You know that thing where you sit down to update your resume and immediately want to do literally anything else? Yeah we do… So we built the Resume Builder specifically so that feeling goes away.

Our resume builder asks you a handful of guided questions, the kind that actually make sense for what you do, and pulls out the stuff you'd never think to include but absolutely should. Like your training or your specialties, your clientele size or your instagram portfolio. 

Get it done in 10 minutes and walk away with something that looks like you spent a whole afternoon on it. Photo, skills, experience, all in one clean place that reads like you and not like a tax document.

The best part? It lives right on your profile, and rides along with every application you send on SalonJobs. Download it for anywhere else you want too.