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Where techs see your job

Polish Perfect has jobs pages for nail schools. There's one for the whole country, one for each state, and one for each city with open jobs. Your post goes on the page for your city. Each post on the list shows the pay, the job title, full time or part time, your school's name and city, and the first lines of your description. (This is how we explain job posts to techs.)

On your city's page, posts are listed newest first. People can filter the list by pay type, schedule, role, and how recently a job was posted.

Your post shows up in more places too. You don't have to do anything extra.

• Its own page. Every post gets its own link, set up so Google reads it as a job listing. We tell Google when you publish.
• Your school's page. The post shows there, with a button to call the school.
• Nearby cities. Your post can show on the jobs pages of cities within 50 miles, below their own posts.
• The state and national school jobs pages, newest first. Your listing needs to be reasonably filled in to show up there.
• The feed. Signed-in techs and salon owners near you see it under Jobs. Here's how the feed works for schools.

What goes in a job post

Posting takes three screens. Pick the post type, tap your answers, check the preview. There's no long form to fill out. People read the quick facts first, and those are the same things they filter by.

• Role. Instructor, admissions, or front desk. Hiring for something else, like a program director? Pick Other and type the job title.
• Full time or part time.
• Pay. Pick salary or hourly. Then give a pay range: a low and a high number, per hour, per week, or per year.
• The programs the job covers. The programs on your listing start out picked. Tap to add or remove any.
• A title and a description. We write both for you from your answers. Edit them, rewrite them, or let AI write them for you.
• A photo, if you want one. You choose from the photos on your listing.

For an instructor job, the description we write already asks for an active license, plus any instructor credential your state requires. Add anything else you need, like the nights or weekends the class meets.

Before you post

A job post belongs to a school listing, so the listing has to be yours first. Is your school already on Polish Perfect? Claiming it is one automated call to the school's phone. Once the claim goes through, you can post. Not listed yet? Add your school. Your post shows on the public pages once the listing is live.

Then fill in the listing. List your programs, pick your accreditations, add a few photos, and set your hours. The state and national jobs pages only show posts from schools with a reasonably complete listing.

Last, look at your page the way an applicant would. A tech thinking about teaching checks out the school before they apply. The rankings guide lists everything that counts toward a complete listing.

What you get when someone applies

Nobody applies by phone or through an outside link. A person who wants the job signs in and sends two things: three to five photos of their own work, and a note to you. That's the whole application.

For an instructor, the photos are the point. You see the work of the person who would be teaching it before you ever meet. For admissions or the front desk, the note will tell you more. So use your description to say what you want to hear about.

• The application opens a message thread in your dashboard inbox. The photos and the note sit at the top.
• You get a notification in your dashboard when it comes in.
• You reply in the thread. Ask how long they've been licensed, set a time for a teaching demo, send the address.
• If the person has a public tech profile, the application links to it.

Each person can apply to a post once, so your inbox doesn't fill up with repeats. Licenses and instructor credentials aren't part of the application. Ask for them in the thread, and check them the way your state requires.

Your post stays up for 30 days

A post is live for 30 days from the moment you publish. After that it comes off every page, its link stops working, and we tell Google the job is closed. That keeps the jobs pages honest. Nobody applies for a job that was filled months ago.

• Still hiring after 30 days? Post again. The new post is the newest one on your city's page.
• Filled the job early? Delete the post from your dashboard so people stop applying.
• Need to change something? You can't edit a live post, so read the preview before you publish. If something's wrong, delete the post and make a new one.

More than one campus, or a slow city

A post is tied to one school listing. Have two campuses? Write two posts. You choose which campus you're posting for, and each post goes on its own city page.

Need an instructor before the next class starts, or is your city quiet? That's what Boost is for. A boosted post sits at the top of your city's jobs page, above the other posts, for as long as the Boost runs. See everything Boost does for a school.

Boost doesn't change what's in your post. So write a clear post first, then boost it if you need to.

Posting checklist

Here's everything above, in order.

1. 01Claim your school, or add it. List your programs, accreditations, photos, and hours so your post reaches the state and national pages. Start here if you haven't.
2. 02Pick the role and the pay type you really use, and give an honest pay range.
3. 03Pick the programs the job covers.
4. 04Read the title and description we wrote and make them sound like your school. Say what you want applicants to tell you.
5. 05Check the preview. You can't edit after you publish.
6. 06Watch your inbox and answer every application in its thread.
7. 07After 30 days, post again if the job is still open. Delete the post the day you fill it.

Want every screen spelled out? Follow the step-by-step.