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"As a personal trainer, it's your job to help clients achieve healthy fitness goals by recommending exercise that is appropriate to their body type and level of fitness. Interviewers may test your ability to provide fitness treatment for common injuries such as damaged rotator cuffs or sore knees. Employers will also be looking for candidates who know how to sell their services, so come prepared to discuss how you would market yourself to different kinds of clients. There are hundreds of different personal training certifications available, and the certification you choose should depend on the the position you are applying for."

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Again, my very brief meeting was with a regional manager and there are only three of those to my understanding. He was professional and the dynamic was more conversational than direct question based. He seemed to be more taken with my background and my choice to leave a lucrative sales career. Which doesn’t make much sense as they went on about the earning potential and fulfillment of working for Equinox. I had been a level 5 trainer for Lifetime already and did well, so my background in sales had already proved to be an asset and clearly it was a career I was interested in continuing. The second interview was in a group of us who made it past the initial meeting. It was broken down into several parts. There’s much that I could add on this, but they seemed to focus in on the my experience and leadership as threatening. The whole vibe changed in the room once much of the attention went to me, but the “group thing” was their idea…
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Equinox Personal Trainer

Interviewed at Equinox

3.3★
Jul 25, 2021

Again, my very brief meeting was with a regional manager and there are only three of those to my understanding. He was professional and the dynamic was more conversational than direct question based. He seemed to be more taken with my background and my choice to leave a lucrative sales career. Which doesn’t make much sense as they went on about the earning potential and fulfillment of working for Equinox. I had been a level 5 trainer for Lifetime already and did well, so my background in sales had already proved to be an asset and clearly it was a career I was interested in continuing. The second interview was in a group of us who made it past the initial meeting. It was broken down into several parts. There’s much that I could add on this, but they seemed to focus in on the my experience and leadership as threatening. The whole vibe changed in the room once much of the attention went to me, but the “group thing” was their idea…

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