What are you actually paying to learn?
A course name tells you the subject. It does not tell you how your time, practice and feedback will work.
Every creative career
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The fee is not the full cost.
Before you compare two programmes, put the costs around them on the same page. Leave estimates visibly marked as estimates.
Every creative career
“Placement support” needs a better question.
Before you build a plan around a career promise, ask exactly what activity the phrase describes.
Every creative career
A baking course is more than a product list.
Twenty impressive names on a syllabus still leave an important question: what will you be able to explain and practise?
Baking & pâtisserie
A good cake is not a working day.
Liking the finished product is a beginning. Understanding the tasks around it is a different kind of preparation.
Baking & pâtisserie
Before a price, define the order.
A vague request makes a vague estimate. Clarify the brief and record your inputs before thinking about a figure.
Baking & pâtisserie
A bigger kit is not a clearer learning plan.
Before making a shopping list, ask what your programme requires and how each item will be used.
Makeup & beauty
Whose work does your portfolio show?
A beauty image is often a collaboration. Your portfolio should make your contribution easy to understand.
Makeup & beauty
“Natural” is not a complete brief.
A familiar word can hide different expectations. Ask what the person means before planning the look.
Makeup & beauty
What does a tattoo course actually include?
Ask where drawing, observation, supervised learning and assessment sit in the programme. Keep those distinctions visible.
Tattoo art
A concept is a concept. Label it.
Drawing studies, proposed designs and completed tattoo work tell different stories. A portfolio should distinguish them.
Tattoo art
A studio visit is not an apprenticeship.
Before describing an opportunity on your CV, establish the role, supervision and learning arrangements that were actually agreed.
Tattoo art
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