In this article, we’ll explore how to design an online dance teaching application form to help dance studios simplify their job application and hiring process and find the best teachers.
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Creating an online application form for your dance studio can be done in a few easy steps.
Include fields for applicant contact information such as name, email, and phone number.
Include questions such as Have you ever taught dance before? What disciplines can you teach? At what level can you teach these disciplines?
Add a section where applicants can upload their resume and cover letter.
Include sections for comments, availability, and more open-ended questions such as why they want to join your team of dance instructors.
Activity Messenger allows you to add customized questions that delve into the applicant’s background, experience and teaching philosophy.
This allows you to gain a deeper understanding of who’s applying and how they might fit into your studio’s culture and values.
Here are some of the best questions to ask on a dance studio application form:
📌 Pro Tip: Working with hundreds of dance studios and gymnastics clubs, I have found that keeping the forms short and sweet is the best way to go. This makes it easy for people to apply from a smartphone and helps you get more applicants to choose from. Adding open-ended questions will not only help you better understand the applicants, but it will also give you a good idea of who is really interested in the position.
In addition to standard questions, our application form also supports the upload of resumes and cover letters.
This allows you to collect both the resume and cover letter through the form so that everything arrives at the same time. You get answers to the important questions you have included in the form and a more complete view of the applicant’s professional and dance experience with their CV.
📌 Pro Tip: Having hired hundreds of instructors over the years, I’ve learned that including specific questions that are important to your company is crucial. We may get the perfect candidate on paper when we read a resume, but an application form gives us more context and a better idea if they are the right fit for us.
One of the biggest benefits of using Activity Messenger for your recruiting process is the instant notification feature.
Whether it’s via email or SMS, you get a notification every time someone applies, so you never miss a potential candidate.
This is crucial in today’s job market, where good candidates can receive job offers very quickly.
📌 Pro Tip:When we receive a job application, we try to respond within an hour whenever possible. We’ve found over the years that the best candidates tend to apply for multiple positions and find a job quickly. Being fast in today’s market gives us a leg up in attracting the right candidates.
A key insight from our experience hiring hundreds of instructors over the years is detailed in our blog post How to Hire Part-Time Employees & Gen Z’s.
One big change we have made is to switch to SMS to communicate with candidates.
Expanding your team with exceptional dance instructors is one of the most important aspects of running a dance studio. Using an online application form can help you maintain a steady flow of great candidates from which to choose.
Here is a Dance Teacher Application Form template that was created using Activity Messenger. Test it out and see if you like it!
Creating a simple and easy way to attract the right candtiates is at the heart of any Dance Studio. But running an effective dance studio is way more than that.
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