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Hi geeks,

Could you help me with a project i'm researching for please.
I want to know if directly after you completed your NVQ 2 beauty therapy training and took your first salon job, did you consider yourself to be fully competent and ready for the role of beauty therapist?
Did your employer offer you more training? How did they provide this for you? Were there certain treatments you would've liked to have spent more time practising/learning about at college?

Sorry about all the questions :D but i'd be really grateful for your full and honest replies.

Thanks
 
hi, personally i felt totally ready for my first job untill i started that is ! i was so shocked that things were so different in a salon environment to what it was like at college. i think college learns you the basics but you dont learn to be a beauty therapist untill you start working. i also think you excell at what your good at and enjoy and other things take alot of practice. after nearlly 11 years in the beauty industry im still learning all the time. i just think the longer your a therapist and are dealing with the public the more confident and compitent you become.
hope this helps x
p.s personally i dont think any one is ready to be working on clients after completing nvq2
 
I'd say no because the real learning is done on the job, however I think some people after training are more competent than others thats just down to their own personal skills, abilities and passion for working in the beauty industry.

Sometimes training can be a little outdated, for example my tutor (who was amazing) only showed us once how to do eyebrows, because she said that tweezing was a gentler option on the skin, at the time she seemed surprised when I said that everyone I knew had their brows waxed. When I started working I learned the hard way ( I was shaking through my first weeks of brows) and I made mistakes but I learned because I had too - eye brow waxing is my most popular treatment now and I must say I love doing it.

I think it's about continuous learning - I find myself continually working to improve how I do things and salon geek had been amzing for helping too.

Hope this helps, good luck with your assignmnent!
 
I'd say no because the real learning is done on the job, however I think some people after training are more competent than others thats just down to their own personal skills, abilities and passion for working in the beauty industry.

Sometimes training can be a little outdated, for example my tutor (who was amazing) only showed us once how to do eyebrows, because she said that tweezing was a gentler option on the skin, at the time she seemed surprised when I said that everyone I knew had their brows waxed. When I started working I learned the hard way ( I was shaking through my first weeks of brows) and I made mistakes but I learned because I had too - eye brow waxing is my most popular treatment now and I must say I love doing it.

I think it's about continuous learning - I find myself continually working to improve how I do things and salon geek had been amzing for helping too.

Hope this helps, good luck with your assignmnent!

I do wish Tutors would stick to the facts instead of proffering their own OPINIONS. It is so confusing when you teach opinion as fact, when it is only a personal opinion.
 
I do wish Tutors would stick to the facts instead of proffering their own OPINIONS. It is so confusing when you teach opinion as fact, when it is only a personal opinion.

Exactly. Like when my college tutor told us that enhancements ruin your nails. :rolleyes:
 
Exactly. Like when my college tutor told us that enhancements ruin your nails. :rolleyes:

Oh yes .. they are full of stuff like that. Largely because it is beauty therapists that teach nails in colleges and not competent knowledgeable experienced nail artists.
 
NVQ2 hairdresers most certainly need a few years working alongside more experienced hairdressers. The competancy level required by NVQ is lower than the expectation level of the clients.
 
Just wondering how Lovely's response could be deemed as being personal opinion and with the assertion that the same response is not factual when exactly the same thing is proffered as a rebuttal. Now that's confusing.

So while this thread is now off on a tangent, I trained as a nail technician and a beauty therapist in Australia - which is a bit different to the NVQ system in content, length, industry standard and structure but runs along similar industry lines. Yay me :D

I want to know if directly after you completed your NVQ 2 beauty therapy training and took your first salon job, did you consider yourself to be fully competent and ready for the role of beauty therapist?

Although nail technology is part of the beauty therapy training package, I undertook my training separately in a nail technology course. When I went onto train in beauty therapy, I was trade tested and given an exemption from the related modules so that I did not have to do them again. My nail teachers were all working nail technicians and some of them were award winners. Incidentally, although I did not train with them, the nail teachers at the college where I took my beauty therapy training were all working nail techs too. As part of the beauty therapy diploma, we had to complete an industry placement where we were supervised and tested to industry standard so on completion we were not only industry competent but certified as such by the industry itself.

Did your employer offer you more training? How did they provide this for you?

Yes they did. It was product specific re the skincare system used. This is commonplace given that colleges provide one or two skincare systems.

Were there certain treatments you would've liked to have spent more time practising/learning about at college?

Not really. Each module was quite comprehensive and every Friday was clinic day where we were practicing our skills on the public so the learning process was well rounded. The college I attended offered the spa stream so if there were any treatments I wanted to do more of it was due to personal use and not necessarily further learning purposes! :)

The college I attended adhered to some pretty strict policies concerning attendance, dress, behaviour, course content, assessment and pass rates etc which weeded out the less committed right at the beginning and stood us in good stead when we hit industry. We also sat ITEC and CIDESCO exams in conjunction with our own and, quite frankly, I found our own ones to be of a higher standard. Needless to say all of us had jobs waiting for us prior to graduation.

I believe training is as effective as those who provide it. The college I chose was not cheap to attend but it set standards it did not compromise on. And at the end of the day, I feel that really made the difference.
 
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Thanks for your opinions guys. Much appreciated X
 

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