I know several hairdressers that have trained in Shellac, spray tanning, eyelashes so they can provide it when they're not busy in their salons, no one could have asked for proof of qualifications as they wouldn't have been able to provide it!!
I simply will say, passing your driving test doesn't make u Lewis hamilton.
What u do after u pass, how much u practice, what advice u listen to, natural talent, open minded ness and being prepared to continue to learn are all what makes us better.
Let's stop being ignorant.
Those that are rubbish simply will not last, wether they did a short course or trained for 5yrs!!
If u are good people will return and any business person will know return customers are 5 times more valuable that a new customer.
So be the best and forget about the competition, as they should only serve to keep u on your toes xx
I simply will say, passing your driving test doesn't make u Lewis hamilton.
What u do after u pass, how much u practice, what advice u listen to, natural talent, open minded ness and being prepared to continue to learn are all what makes us better.
Let's stop being ignorant.
Those that are rubbish simply will not last, wether they did a short course or trained for 5yrs!!
If u are good people will return and any business person will know return customers are 5 times more valuable that a new customer.
So be the best and forget about the competition, as they should only serve to keep u on your toes xx
I simply will say, passing your driving test doesn't make u Lewis hamilton.
Let me put my tuppence in.
I went both routes - NVQ and shortcourses and had various experiences.
My both NVQs, in different colleges, were terrible (nVQ2 in Nail Technology and NVQ2 in Beauty Therapy) - in both cases there were students who hardly attended yet still were allowed to sit exams and gues what?... They passed! Overall teaching standards were poor - no matter what you do, you are always 'excellent'. No fair feedback or constructive critisims whatsoever. So I left mega confindent in my skills. And then reality hit me really badly during the trade test - to an extent that I was unable to get the job even in a substandard place (at thetimes I was not aware what nss are).
So, I decided to retrain privately. I had good and bad experiences, but mainly good.
My NVQ3 in Nails I have obtained purely because I needed this paper to get the job I wanted. So, I looked into curriculum, found out that I already know what is required and then found an assessment centre local to my place.
Sat all exams and passed from the first attempt, with minimal revision of theory. Most of my level 3 skills were gained through short courses and loads of practice.
In my opinion, NVQ does not guarantee certain teaching standards, and certail skill level as a result. It is all about passing everyone whoever is enrolled to get funding.
Yes, there are plenty on short course providers who will take your money and run away, but there are a lot with excellent reputation and high standards too. Research is the key.
Short courses are inadequte in certain areas (not saying it takes a year to learn spray tanning and I'm sure that applies to other skills too), however, if you have had NVQ girls that are no good, then that is a failure of their course and the school/college to not only fail to give them inadequate training, but to then pass them too.
The problem is that awarding bodies do not police the courses they accredit. Some don't even care and will accredit anything but even those who do have certain standards do not police them. VCTC are notorious for this. There are government requirements for the numbers of hours required to achieve a certain level of qualification and the beauty industry seems to ignore all this.
Exactly, why were they passed if they were not achieving the required standard? It makes a mockery of those good therapists. Ultimately it is the customers that suffer but it refects poorly on the industry. I've read a number of posts where people are, understandably, frustrated that the beauty industy is percieved as being for the unintelligent. Is it any wonder that that is the perception when it is easy to qualify even if you don't reach the required standard. We should hold our heads high and expect our repective industries to have high standards of training and delivery of service. Only then will it get the respect.
Let me put my tuppence in.
I went both routes - NVQ and shortcourses and had various experiences.
My both NVQs, in different colleges, were terrible (nVQ2 in Nail Technology and NVQ2 in Beauty Therapy) - in both cases there were students who hardly attended yet still were allowed to sit exams and gues what?... They passed! Overall teaching standards were poor - no matter what you do, you are always 'excellent'. No fair feedback or constructive critisims whatsoever. So I left mega confindent in my skills. And then reality hit me really badly during the trade test - to an extent that I was unable to get the job even in a substandard place (at thetimes I was not aware what nss are).
So, I decided to retrain privately. I had good and bad experiences, but mainly good.
My NVQ3 in Nails I have obtained purely because I needed this paper to get the job I wanted. So, I looked into curriculum, found out that I already know what is required and then found an assessment centre local to my place.
Sat all exams and passed from the first attempt, with minimal revision of theory. Most of my level 3 skills were gained through short courses and loads of practice.
In my opinion, NVQ does not guarantee certain teaching standards, and certail skill level as a result. It is all about passing everyone whoever is enrolled to get funding.
Yes, there are plenty on short course providers who will take your money and run away, but there are a lot with excellent reputation and high standards too. Research is the key.
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