Career Skills

Course:  601   (15 hours)

 

Makeup artistry is a “people pleasing” business.  We have the opportunity to make our clients’ look and feel better.  We can often help people see their inner beauty as well as enhancing their outer beauty. To accomplish this we need good makeup artistry techniques, but we also need superior communications and human relations skills. This Career Skills course has been designed to highlight some of these essential additional skills you will want to take with you to every job. By the end of this brief course, you should have gained some important life skills that can make you a self-directed and confident job seeker throughout your career.

 

This course will cover:

 

ü       What Is Communication?

ü       Body Language

ü       How People Communicate and What They Are REALLY Saying.

ü       Your Learning Style

ü       Relationship Strategies

ü       Discovering Your Behavioral Style

ü       Are You Listening or Just Hearing?

ü       Beliefs, Attitudes And Actions

ü       Defining A Belief System

ü       The Code And You / Value Clarification

ü       Becoming A Friendlier Person

ü       Respect/ Acceptance

 

A textbook is recommended for this course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Industry Savvy/Job Search

Course:  602   (10 hours)

 

Pre-requisite: Basic 101 or Intermediate 102 Makeup Artistry

 

Getting and keeping a job requires more than just knowing how to do a successful makeover. This course is designed to help you learn how the cosmetic industry works.  Topics include: a review of its specialized vocabulary and rules of conduct, employment options, career paths/opportunities, and defining what jobs are right for you.  Then we work on targeting your job search, learning how to get an interview, and practicing skills to help you turn the interview into a job offer.  But that’s not all there is to it: - after the offer, you need to know 1) how to assess the job, 2) what’s expected of you on the job if you accept it, and 3) how to turn that job into a career.

 

This course will cover:

 

ü       The Interview Image

ü       An Overview of the Cosmetic Industry

ü       Chain of Command

ü       Industry Terminology

ü       The Hiring Procedure

ü       Job Applications

ü       Interview Schedules

ü       Work Schedules

ü       Productivity Goals

ü       Compensation

ü       How To Find Jobs That Are Not Advertised

ü       How to Negotiate for Hours and $$

ü       Finding the Right Cosmetic Line for You

ü       The Interview- What to Expect

ü       Selling yourself in the Interview

ü       Experience That Counts

ü       Getting Along with Co-workers and Supervisors

ü       Cosmetic Etiquette

ü       Management

ü       Promotions

 

 

 

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Freelance Business Development                          

Course:  603   (15 hours)

 

Pre-requisite: Intermediate 102 Makeup Artistry or above.

 

This course is designed to help students understand the business of freelance makeup artistry and the multilevel cosmetic industry.  Learn from successful entrepreneurs who have earned their living as Freelance Makeup Artists in the LA/Orange County/San Diego region.  The jobs are out there for those who have learned their trade, mastered effective communications and human relations skills, and have the savvy to market themselves effectively.  Mastering marketing, business, and self-management skills is essential to making your living in the competitive, and sometimes lucrative, freelance makeup artistry industry. 

 

This course will be scheduled for students to take after the completion of the Intermediate Makeup Artistry and/or more advanced classes such as Photography or Theatrical Makeup and TV/Film classes.

 

This course will cover:

 

ü       The Interview Image

ü       An Overview of the Cosmetic Industry

ü       Chain of Command

ü       Industry Terminology

ü       The Hiring Procedure

ü       Job Applications

ü       Interview Schedules

ü       Work Schedules

ü       Productivity Goals

ü       Compensation

ü       How To Find Jobs That Are Not Advertised

ü       How to Negotiate for Hours and $$

ü       Finding the Right Cosmetic Line for You

ü       The Interview- What to Expect

ü       Selling yourself in the Interview

ü       Experience That Counts

ü       Getting Along with Co-workers and Supervisors

ü       Cosmetic Etiquette

ü       Management

ü       Promotions