Ah my favourite rant!. I shan't go on in my usual fashion here as I've bored everyone to death with this. However, to throw some light on your situation, had I known this when I started my current business I would have opened a college not a spa. Over the last 10 years there has been a steady decline in teaching standards, courses used to be full time, Monday to Friday and were three years. As I left education that changed to two years and it's been cut back until we now have 1 1/2 to 2 days per week considered full time. That paired with the fact girls are told that they can walk into to jobs paying £10 per hour once they are qualified means a large amount of people are left a little stunned when they start entering the world of work. The UK market used to be flooded with Australian and south African therapists who were very highly trained the visa situation changed and ended those heady days. About 18 years ago I used to receive dozens of high quality C.V.s and could have filled each vacancy about 20 times over. When advertising for experienced therapists I'm now inundated with C.V.s from people who write grandiose paragraphs about how dynamic and talented they are and they've only just completed their training.
Indeed seems to be the main place at the moment, but be prepared for the dozens of non-relevant C.V.s, I now add at the bottom of mine, due the the high numbers of applications received, applicants with no qualifications will not be contacted.
Good luck (so much for me making this short!).[/QUOTE
