Phagans' Career Development course is 100 hours in length and is required with the Hair Design, Barbering, Esthetics, and Nail Technology courses.
Unit 1. Freshman Career Development:
Freshman Career Development classes emphasize customer service and client building. Introduction to the industry, money management, goal setting and professional product recommending are all covered. Demographic studies, business card design and banking are also reviewed at this level.
Unit 2. Sophomore Career Development:
Client building is continued during this unit. The student goes on their second salon visit. Major marketing strategies are reviewed at this level, including creating advertisements, press releases, promotions and promotional displays.
Unit 3. Junior Career Development:
At this level the student focuses on job preparation by taking classes covering job interview preparation, writing a resume and cover letter, and filling out job applications. Students also review business funding strategies, rental agreements, product management, salon ownership and floor plan design. They also go on their third salon visit.
Unit 4. Senior Career Development:
This level of career development continues client building activities and income management. Creating marketing tools such as a service menu and a mission statement is also covered. They also go on their fourth salon visit. Finally, the student prepares and turns in their business plan and completed graduation portfolio (also know as the EDGE manual) for final grading.
This course, along with Safety and Sanitation, are required for state mandated hours completion requirement and licensure. These courses are included one time with all programs or combination of programs that the student enrolls in.
Click here to download course outline.
Student Right to Know and Consumer Information:
- To see program median loan debt, on-time graduation and placement rates: click here. This information can also be found in Appendix A of our Student Catalog & Handbook.
- To see institutional completion, licensure and place rates: click here
- Course Costs: click here
- For career exploration and job analysis visit www.onetonline.org
- For general consumer information: click here.
Textbooks:
- The Edge Manual $50; written & published by I Phasion, Inc.
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