Make up a career based on beauty by enrolling to an esthetics college
01/10/2013 19:05
Take your hobby, routine, or passion to new heights and find an esthetics college to formally inaugurate you as a professional, so you can continue to do what you like as a career. Estheticians are skin care specialists, performing advanced cosmetic procedures.
Why enroll in an esthetics program?
- Personal care services, which involved estheticians, continue to grow, with low unemployment rates and high returns and profits for established professionals.
- If you are interested in beauty products and treatments, turn your interests into a career and work in an environment you can appreciate.
- If you are looking to own a private business, being an esthetician is a good occupation to be an entrepreneur.
- Programs usually take only four semesters to complete, with theory and hands-on experience
- Anyone from high school students to mature students to someone in a different field are accepted in most programs.
The state-of-the-art spa facilities of Centennial College provide modern equipment used as learning tools for future estheticians in the Esthetician (9153) program. Students study core materials in skin care theory and transform their knowledge into essential skills with the help of practice labs and the use of esthetic treatment machines and facial treatment apparatus. Furthermore, they work in the Censation Esthetics Student Clinic, with experienced faculty on supervision duties. Clinic treatments are open to the public, with discounted rates, as the professionals are current Centennial students performing a variety of procedures including: anti-ageing collagen treatment, microderm abrasion treatment, acne treatment, lifting/photo treatment, and hydration treatment.
Some graduates can find themselves working in salons, spas, and medical spas. Others will work in the retail trade with drugstores and other companies who sell personal care products. Working in personal care services, the industry is contingent on demand in this non-essential nature of work. However, esthetician is a booming profession due to today’s climate. People’s perceptions of beauty is creating a favourable job prospects for students in this specialty. According to Service Canada, the ageing population and the higher female clientele for beauty-related services are the main factors of the industry’s growth.
What else can you expect upon completion of Centennial’s Esthetician program?
- Qualified to perform different body and skin treatments, using specialized equipment and products, in compliance with industry standards and government policies
- Working in beauty parlors, salons, department stores, and drugstores
- Flexibility in hours, with options to work in the weekends and after regular office hours on weekdays
- Establish your own work hours and manage the profit by becoming an entrepreneur of a salon or spa operations
- Earn good reputation with credentials and experience in the industry in order to grow the customer base and earn higher wages and salaries
The health and beauty industry has a very low unemployment rate, with workers consisting mainly of college graduates. The esthetics college in Canada awards its Esthetician graduates with an Ontario College Diploma and a whole range of skills beyond the technical esthetic capabilities, including customer service strategies, career opportunities in business development, and aptitude for working a safe and sanitary work environment.