You’ve Finished Your Programme and Passed with Flying Colours. So What Comes After Graduation?
Now you’re qualified and have your certificates and diplomas, you might want to look for a job or employment in the beauty industry. But how can we help you — as a graduate, as a clinic manager, or as a clinic owner — with finding jobs, acting as a reference, or listing jobs available?
Quick Links about After Graduation
Employment Offers and Employment Surveys
Clinics contact us to advertise positions on our student notice board, and when they send the relevant information through, we post these.
We also encourage you, once you have finished your training, to “call in” to clinics, equipped with a current CV and dressed appropriately. You need to actively look for a job; offers very rarely fall into anyone’s lap.
If you still can’t find a job, please contact the OMA staff, and we’ll see what opportunities are still available (that we are aware of). Also check Web sites like www.trademe.co.nz/jobs/, www.seek.co.nz and other job-related Web sites.
Once you have a job, or if you have gone on to further training, please let us know via an employment survey or by giving us a call and giving us the details. TEC require us to keep an as-accurate-as-possible tally on how many (or what percentage of) graduates gained employment in the industry or have progressed to further training.
Acting as a Reference or Referee
Closer to the time of your programme’s finishing date, we should supply you with a release form. If you complete this, sign it, and return it to us, we can keep it on file and speak as a referee for you; however, you must supply this written authorisation for us to do so. We keep a copy of this on your file for further reference.
Under the Privacy Act 2020 and subsequent amendments, we cannot talk to any potential employer about you until we have authorization to do so. We usually only comment on things like your punctuality, professionalism, relationships with fellow ākonga / students and staff members, and so on.
Do You Know of Any Jobs Available?
If you know of any jobs available in the industry, please let us know. It may also pay to have the employer contact us for further information.
Do You Want to List a Job Available?
If you are an employer and have a position available, please feel free to email or bring in a copy of your advertisement.
We will be more than happy to list these on our student notice board.
If you’d like us to post it on our social media, please indicate this in your message or when you speak to us.
We also suggest you advertise the position as well.
Please understand that, while we are willing to assist by putting up these notices and perhaps talking to ākonga / students, we are an educational provider first and foremost.
We do not write or copyedit these notices for you, so please ensure you include all relevant information. What you send us will be placed “as is” on the notice boards.
Further Study with Us
When you get towards the end of your course, you may be itching to study more. That’s okay! We have options for you to do that. For example, New Zealand Certificate in Nail Technology graduates can progress into the New Zealand Certificate in Beauty Therapy.
The good thing about studying further with us is we can transfer credit from one course to another, and this saves you money. Please note only a certain number of credits can be transferred.
If you would like more information on any course we offer, please consult your copy of your course information pack, see our Web page, or come and talk to one of the Operations team.
Further Ways We Can Help
If you decide to set-up your own clinic or require any further assistance from us once you have graduated, please feel free to contact us, and we will try to help you as best as we can.
Keep in Touch
We love for our graduates to stay in touch with us to let us know how you are getting on. Please feel free to give us a call, drop us an email or stop by; we’d love to see you again. Once you are a part of the NaSA family, you stay a part of it.