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Chapter 7

Educational Opportunities

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Apprenticeships

What if you could learn to groom by apprenticing with a groomer? Sound great? It can be. Apprenticeships are available but their numbers are not many. Do you know why? The answer is in the past of the grooming industry.
 

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For decades groomers have taken on apprentices. Most employers will agree the results from offering apprenticeships can be the proverbial mixed bag. Imagine you are a business owner. You provide training and a wage to a career seeker and once the trainee felt they had acquired enough knowledge and experience, they quit! Do you want to start over again repeating this same cycle? Unfortunately this scenario has been played out thousands of times. It gets worse.

Sometimes departing apprentices open competitive businesses down the block from their past employer/trainer! Some even take their past employers' client lists! These are not rare cases. How unfortunate for today’s career seekers that so many of their predecessors have stained the reliability of offering apprenticeship opportunities.

“Burned” employers don’t make the same mistake more than twice. It takes a lot of convincing for them to be sold on offering apprenticeships again.

Don’t rule out an apprenticeship if one interests you. Review the PetGroomer.com Help Wanted Classified Ads updated several times a week. Be honest and faithful to our fellow groomers offering you these opportunities. There are apprenticeships available, but they are few.

If you find one, honor the owner who does a good job of training. Stay employed with them for a reasonable period of time once you are capable of being a standalone groomer. Give them plenty of advance notice when you do depart. You are affecting the future for tomorrow’s career seekers.

One of the key differences between apprenticeships versus fee-based education is time. Educational opportunities immerse you in the challenges of education daily because curricula hours are set. Apprentice groomers can achieve the same education but the length of time is in the control of employers. It’s a trade-off sometimes. On the other side of the coin, apprenticeships cost nothing and usually include wages while learning.

Other Training Programs

PETCO and PetSmart offer training. They have been sponsors of PetGroomer.com for many years and they list many of their job openings in the PetGroomer.com Classified Ads. If you cannot afford a school, home study or find an apprenticeship, their career path may be ideal for you. Even if money is not a determining factor in your education choice, working in a corporate environment may be right for you. Unlike the majority of grooming jobs in independents, they offer wages while you learn.

Clearly the corporate stores offer some of the best employee benefits in the pet grooming industry. In fact, you should know one sad fact about benefits and the grooming industry. There are thousands of pet groomer jobs in independents that offer little or no benefits. If you are counting on benefits such as healthcare your employment choices will narrow quickly when working for independents.

We are pleased PETCO and PetSmart introduced new career training opportunities on such a large scale. They changed the industry. Where there are no schools, and some states have no schools, they probably have some stores with training arrangements.

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