I agree with you ... I wouldn't.... But I get it in the neck when I post on threads the amount of salons that take apprentices for no pay as they need work experience...exploitation in my eyes and i will stick with my opinion.. My little 17 year old apprentice gets £5 per hour...how can anyone be motivated with the Government guidelines of pay. It's disgusting.
I have an apprentice, I'm a new salon and I was practically begged by the college to take someone on, I pay her an apprentice wage because, even though she has passed her level 2 she has NO IDEA what so ever on how to do any treatment that the college has deemed her fit and passed her to do!!!
I'm putting a lot of time and effort into her, advertising constantly for models to help her and having to take time out myself to oversea everything she does.
She is 17 and a young one at that, she cannot after many hours of training from myself see when the salon needs tidying or cleaning ( but then neither would my own 17 year old daughter!) at the end of the day teenagers are a different animal. However the one thing that really gets my goat is the fact that she has passed her exams and couldn't if her life depended on it do a file and polish let alone a manicure and don't get me started on waxing, I stopped her from doing that when I went to oversea and she had rubbed a gallon of oil on the clients legs and then mixed that up with powder!!!
I've spoken to the college and their argument was "she's a lovely girl but a slow learner" - THEY PASSED HER ON LEVEL 2!
Don't get me wrong, in some ways I'm lucky, she is a lovely girl and her customer service skills are quite good but that's because she's a sweet likeable person.
I won't give up on her as you never know, everything just might click into place, however I do think that what someone else said is right, if they're not that bright - get them into hair or beauty!!