Excellent! Then I suggest you defer appointing them as instructors (and charging customers full price for their time) until you have done so.
Lol, now that would be an interesting business practice, but it wouldn't be a good ski school one.
One might be able to rip, however one might define such a thing, but that doesn't mean they can teach. Give me an intermediate skier, who is good with people and is passionate about introducing Never Evers to the sport over some skilled skier with no teaching or interpersonal skills, and I'm taking the intermediate skier for a number of reasons:
1. He/she won't be in that intermediate zone long, just the hiring clinic alone will show marked improvement.
2. Most likely they are aware of their limitations, are open to feed back and coaching as there is a good chance they are there to improve, unlike some (not all) "rippers," who may believe that they don't need feedback, after all their rippers...
3. They will relate to the customer, it may not have been that long ago they were learning, a point of view which is sometimes overlooked by more experienced instructors.
4. And this is the real clincher, the customer will get a better value for their money, yes I said it and its true. Showing a customer how well I rip might impress them, but what's it doing for
their skiing?
Now in a perfect world we'd get only awesome skiers with awesome people skills applying, but as the saying goes "if is for children." The reality is that we have to higher real people, with whatever skills they bring to the table, and because we are all different, those will vary.
From a business perspective we, the ski school recognize that staff member is our most important "product." We want and encourage people, even intermediate skiers to apply, we will provide them the tools that will make them successful. Don't misunderstand, if you are that rare level 9 skier coming in for coaching during a private lesson, you're not getting that new hire, you are getting an experienced, most likely level 2/3 staff member.
Ski schools are big tents, there is room for everybody, and you and I can at least agree the pay could be better, but lets not get into marginalizing people just starting out in their ski careers by making them believe that they have less to offer to a client appropriate for their skill level to instruct.
. But that wouldn't be fair to the OP. I'm left with suggesting that you bring your capital to our mountain, buy it and then you can raise the pay.
