{"id":7169,"date":"2018-07-16T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2018-07-16T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:00:45","slug":"iso-dance-instructors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/fred-astaire-fads-history\/iso-dance-instructors\/","title":{"rendered":"ISO Dance Instructors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attention job searchers: Fred Astaire Dance Studio is looking for dance instructors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Is this you?<\/p>\n

Ideal candidates are good dancers at least (maybe great) and great team players. Best candidates communicate well, understand a variety of communication preferences, and are passionate about teaching others to dance.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re high-energy, happy, love working with people, pay attention to detail. Compassionate, caring, charismatic. Takes direction well. Loves to learn and improve on a daily basis. Loves being part of a great team. Takes and gives feedback well.<\/p>\n

Speaking with a professional recruiter recently, I hit upon the stark truth that it\u2019s not easy to find dance instructors. It takes a special kind of person to fill this position.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to hire homegrown talent. Michigan dance instructors \u2013 where are you?<\/p>\n

This recruiter friend ran an ad for me on job search websites to try to find good candidates for us. Came up empty-handed. He said it\u2019s never happened to him before!<\/p>\n

This is a very focused, stylized field. It\u2019s not for everyone, but it is for some.<\/p>\n

Part of the problem is that prospective candidates think they have to be trained already or be an expert ballroom dancer. Not true!<\/p>\n

I can take anybody who has a dance background of any kind \u2013 ballet or modern or jazz or hip hop. Maybe you danced in high school. Maybe you just love to learn on the dance floor.<\/p>\n

With the right personality, we can provide ample training to turn an eager candidate into a great instructor. And working here is a fantastic way to grow a career in the arts.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I\u2019m just not finding the candidates, which is why we\u2019ve had to hire instructors from foreign lands to come to America and teach with us. I firmly believe we have enough homegrown talent to hire Americans to teach ballroom. So where are you?<\/p>\n

Give us a try! Show us your smile, your enthusiasm, your ability to communicate really, really well.<\/p>\n

Many performers on Dancing With The Stars started dancing later in life. One instructor in the Fred Astaire company was a soccer player who answered an ad for a summer job and became a FADS dance instructor. Literally, the guy knew nothing about dance but he was a great athlete and a quick study.<\/p>\n

Eventually, he became a champion dancer and now owns his own FADS studio. He was even on DWTS!<\/p>\n

A great dance instructor does not have to be someone who\u2019s been dancing all their life. But if you are a dancer, it\u2019s a perfect job for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attention job searchers: Fred Astaire Dance Studio is looking for dance instructors. Is this you? Ideal candidates are good dancers at least (maybe great) and great team players. Best candidates communicate well, understand a variety of communication preferences, and are passionate about teaching others to dance. You\u2019re high-energy, happy, love working with people, pay attention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30,29],"tags":[108,141,142],"class_list":["post-7169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-growth","category-careers-in-dance","category-fred-astaire-fads-history","tag-dance-instructors","tag-help-wanted","tag-open-position"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}