The goal of enrolling in a course at any beauty course is to receive a qualification. Once you have a certified qualification, it allows you to begin your career in the world of beauty therapy. Therefore, it is pretty self-explanatory as to why it is so important for you to receive certification from an accredited beauty school, but here we will go into further depth.
For starters, every beauty therapist has to be certified by an accredited school before any reputable beauty salon will bring them onto their workforce. If you don’t have such a certification, then you will not stand out amongst the many aspiring therapists who do have this award, even if your skills might actually be superior to those of your competing graduates. Next, it’s important for you to get additional knowledge upon certification; you will learn a lot during your beauty course, but you won’t learn everything. In fact, no therapist ever learns everything; the game changes every day, but the more that you can pick up once you have certification, the better equipped you will be for your future prospects.
The biggest reason for certification is obvious: it allows you to pursue what could be a highly promising and successful career in beauty therapy, whether you choose to focus on one specific treatment or if you allow yourself to delve between different services. The possibilities are endless, from your location to your premises to the option of being a self-employed therapist, but it can only happen should you obtain certification from a school.
Let’s round things off with the steps that you can take beyond certification. You can start to apply for roles with the knowledge that you have a genuine chance of being employed. 
You can look around for options that are realistic and feasible, as opposed to being a distant dream. You can consider whether you’d be best suited for a traditional salon, a college, a hotel or even a cruise ship. You can begin to gain experience in the field, perhaps by doing some voluntary work for a local salon. Or, as alluded to earlier, you can evaluate the possibility of going solo and becoming a sole trader within the industry. These are all of the options that you can consider, making for some exciting times, but only once you obtain certification from an accredited beauty school.
Ray Cochrane Beauty School will be able to help you to achieve your desired results, though, and you can find out more by visiting us or contacting us on our website enquiry forms.
For more information about our training or beauty courses at Ray Cochrane Beauty School – you can give us a call on 0203 856 8886 or you can email us at email@raycochrane.co.uk
