Course details

This course aims to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to work within the Beauty Industry as Sales Consultants and Advisors. A beauty advisor assists customers locate the products which meet their needs and sell customers products from specific ranges. Work profiles involve suggesting products, explaining how products work, demonstrating how to use products, performing makeovers, managing stock and operating a retail counter.

COURSE DESCRIPTOR

This course is designed to provide the learner with beauty product knowledge and expertise while at the same time developing practical sales and reception skills central to beauty consultancy and the retail sector. Students will train at GTI's in-house salon 'Poise' where they will perfect their beauty skills as well as develop essential sales skills central to this profession. Students will also obtain out-house work experience where they will enhance already existing beauty and sales advisor skills and experience.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

  • Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Applied or equivalent.
  • Interview.
  • Mature applicants welcome.

COURSE CONTENT

  • Skincare, Eye Treatments & Make-Up
  • Retail Selling
  • Customer Service
  • Retail Display
  • Safety & Health
  • Retail Administration
  • Communications
  • Work Experience

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Dermalogica and Art -Deco Training and Certification
  • Fashion & Media Make-up Application

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

  • Beauty counter in large department stores
  • Pharmacies
  • Beauty Salons
  • Retail Outlets
  • Hotels
  • Costumer Service Representatives
  • Receptionist

CERTIFICATION

FETAC Level 5 Award in Retail Practice 5M2105

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Galway Technical Institute

We_They is one of the leading colleges of Further Education in Ireland, providing FETAC Level 5 & 6 courses to over 1,300 learners annually. At We_They, courses are designed to be of immediate and practical use in the workplace or as a stepping stone to further study and higher qualifications. Everything our students learn will be valuable to them throughout their lives.

Our Applied Learning approach is designed to enable students learn more effectively in real-life situations. Applied Learning provides our students with learning experiences that involve solving problems that are based on real-life situations. This involves learning the role of a journalist or editor at We_They Gazette, becoming a sound engineer, film editor or production co-ordinator at CladdaTV. It may also involve working as a Beauty Therapist in We_They’s Poise Salon, or as a designer in We_They’s Annual Fashion Fiesta. Each department has its own unique real-life, real-time production/event/project. By bringing the real world into the classroom and the classroom into the real world, Applied Learning has become the most effective and exciting way to learn the key skills required for the 21st Century. We_They’s underlying philosophy is about learning together. This is centred on learner activity, collaborative learning and critically, learning to learn.

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