Nail Technology

Applications, Part 2: Your Educational History

This story is no longer valid. As you are looking to enter tertiary education at the equivalent level of the first year of university in most cases, you need to demonstrate you can achieve and succeed in learning.  The way you do this for us is by providing us with an educational history; this is …

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Applications, Part 1: The Essay

This story is no longer valid. When prospective students apply to enrol in one of our longer courses like the Diploma in Beauty Therapy and Applied Aesthetics, one of the requirements is he or she must write an essay in response to statements we have given them.  This exercise gives us a fairer idea of …

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This Course is All About Hard Work

This story is no longer valid. When Jacqui or I take the interview presentation, there’s a slide that starts off with that phrase: “This course is all about hard work.”  If I am presenting, my eyes scan the room full of interviewees to see what their reactions are.  And believe you me, there are a …

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New Skills for a New Season

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Well, spring has sprung, and, as always, a mixture of weather has accompanied the blossoms blooming and trees coming into leaf.  I could do without the cold gray drizzly day thing (although once in a while those types of days can be okay if you want to shut yourself away with a nice book), but spring itself is a reminder of things anew (and, let’s face it: without rain, plants wouldn’t grow).

I find personally — and I think many people find this, not just me — spring encourages me to think about my future and upskilling or gaining new skills.  My drive to start studying something interesting or to build on the skills I have revs up.

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Sailing the Ocean Blue

This story is no longer valid. One of the options qualified beauty therapists, nail technicians and spa therapists have employment-wise is work aboard a cruise ship.  The largest single recruiter for these positions aboard cruise ships are Steiner, a company who first put a hairdressing salon on Cunard’s Queen Mary way back in 1967 and …

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International Qualifications: Are They Important?

This story is no longer valid. When I moved from the US to New Zealand way back in 1996, I thought transporting my degree would be an easy feat.  My mind held the notion that my homeland, like many of the other nations around the world, had discussed tertiary education requirements, compared them, and made …

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