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Page 6 Volume 11 Issue 4 E very Tennis Director or Head Professional goes through staff changes throughout their career. This information will better prepare you for hiring your next Tennis Professional. Before you begin your search it is important to have a job description of what responsibilities will be of the professional. The job description should include responsibilities such as help directing lesson programs; teach private lessons, help organizing special and social events, contribute in newsletter or website information and any other duties specific to your facility. It should also include special requirements such as possess outgoing personality, be honest, courteous, be on time for work, understand facility rules and procedures and appearances should be part of the description. Once you have put a job description together the next step is to organize a list of criteria you would look for in the applicant. Experience, playing background and college requirements could be on this list. With this list you also should list your program strengths and area you would like to increase or improve. This is where you may want this applicant to fit your program, whether it would be adult, junior or social programs. Now that you have made a description on the type of professional you are looking for it is time to publish your advertisement. First write a detailed description of the facility and job you are trying to fill. To get the most resumes possible, publicizing in all the jobsites that are available will help you find the right person. USPTA, PTR, Bob Larson and Tennis Jobs, are just a few of the websites available. Now let the resumes come in, give yourself ample time to accumulate enough resumes to fill your position. I usually give approximately 4 weeks for resumes to come in. Once you begin receiving resumes put them into three categories: 1. Resumes that you feel fit. 2. Resumes that may fit. 3. Resumes that don’t fit. Be sure these resumes have references attached. Once you have found resumes that fit, the next process is to begin your phone interviews with 6 to 10 applicants. Some questions that may be good to ask are: 1. Tell me about yourself? 2. Responsibilities of your last job? 3. Why are you interested in this position? 4. Personality Type? I also think it is time to call the reference listed on their resumes. This can give you a true indication of the type of applicant you are looking at and whether their professional fits your facility and staff. The next process is to narrow your applicants to 5 and the next step would be to send them a questionnaire to fill out asking both on court and off court skills. This is a time you ask for salary requirements. Some questions include: 1. Communication skills 2. Preference of teaching (adults or juniors) (clinics or private lessons) 3. Strengths and weaknesses 4. Team player, getting along with staff Be sure the questions you are asking pertain to the job description. Now it’s time to narrow the field to 3 applicants and bring them in for a personal interview. All my interviews are a 3 part process. 1. Question & answer by both parties (1 hour) 2. On court teaching (both group and private) 3. Playing with another pro or member The total time of my interviews take approximately 3 to 4 hours. I want to get a good feel from the applicants. Once you have interviewed all the professionals make any of the reference phone calls to be sure of their backgrounds. Now it’s time to make your decision. Offer the job to your best applicant and be sure to notify the applicants who did not get the job. Our next process at my facility is a background check and drug test. Once the individual has passed both of these, the person becomes an employee of the club. byTom Cascarano, Greensboro Country Club Be sure to discuss a date and time to begin work. You have hired this staff member now it’s time to train this professional. Start by giving them the employee handbook of all the rules and procedures of the facility. The pro should be knowledgeable of all the rules and regulations. Be sure you emphasize on all the Tennis Rules. Next you want to expose the pro to as many members as possible. This will help members put a face to a name and help promote lessons. You should write up a bio and place in the newsletter and website for exposure. Having a social that introduces the pro is a good way for exposure and have the pro play with the members. Another part of exposure is for the potential lesson clients. Make a list of the members and have the pro call them and introduce himself as the new professional and possibly set up a time for a lesson. It is your responsibility as the director to create as much exposure as possible for this staff member. Now the pro is off and running. Your next responsibility should include periodical evaluations. 1 month, 3 month and 1 year evaluation is good to keep your staff member on the right path. Be sure to be positive with strengths and success, but don’t forget to discuss areas of improvement. I hope this has given you the information needed for your next Tennis Professional hire. Good luck!
Standard Page 7 DRILL DETAILS Type: Singles Time & players: 20 min. [6, 10] Prepared by: Adam Thomson Category: Groundstrokes, Other Level: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Tennis Organization: Forsyth Country Club DRILL DESCRIPTION & GOALS This game works on singles point play (with a team element) against different people on different courts! DRILL ORGANIZATION Organize your teams depending on the number of courts you are using. If you use two courts, have teams of two players, if you use three courts, have teams of three players, etc. Each team takes turns being on the returning side with one person always starting on the deuce side and the other person always starting on the ad side. The remaining players become the servers and will play one point against a returner and, win or lose, go to the next court and repeat. The servers will keep their own running score of how many points they individually win, whereas the returners do not keep score at all. DRILL KEY POINTS Stop the Clock The pro times how long the serving players take for a person to win 7 points! When the first person wins 7, they yell “Stop the Clock!” The object of the game is to see how long the returners can stay out there before one of the servers wins 7 points. The returning team that has the longest time wins the game! DRILL DETAILS Type: Doubles Time & players: 15 min. [5, 8] Prepared by: Tanner Haddon Category: Volley Level: Intermediate, Advanced Tennis Organization: Forsyth Country Club DRILL DESCRIPTION & GOALS The game is designed to improve movement, quickness, and direction of your volleys. DRILL ORGANIZATION U S P T A All players start on service line with 2 on each side with one waiting on side with coach. 3 players start with 2 balls in their pocket, the fourth player starts with 3 as they will start the game with a feed. Player feeds ball, feed must be semi-courteous. As soon as mistake or winner is hit, the player which made mistake or had winner hit on them now feeds. Game continues until a player is out of balls, they are then replaced by player waiting on sideline. DRILL KEY POINTS Volley Wars This is a game of agression and movement. The better job of closing the net the player does, the more successful they will be. No player should still be on service line at the end of the point.
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