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We are actively seeking salons which adhere to the highest standards of professional excellence, expertise, state-of-the-art facilities and devotion to the Nash belief in compassion for the pet, to participate in our on the job training program. As you know, our students of today are our industry leaders of tomorrow, and we at Nash have long believed in offering to them the best education possible, preparing them fully for the competitive and exciting world of working with man’s best friend. Because of this, we hope to change the course of our industry as a whole, and create an international language and methodology of dog grooming that represents the highest aesthetic standards and profound belief that the safety and health of each and every dog comes first.
Online Courses
In 2004, the Nash Academy revolutionized the pet care profession by presenting its first series of online courses, so that all students seeking to become pet care professionals enter the hands-on portion of their training with a thorough, comprehensive background in dog knowledge. The online courses in the “Man’s Best Friend” series include the history of the dog, the AKC breeds, variations within the breeds, anatomy, care, feeding, vaccination, temperament and behavior, first aid and much more, making students, first and foremost, dog experts. For those students entering the pet grooming profession, the next online course series, the “Dog Grooming & Styling Professional,” presents the theory behind bathing, grooming and styling, plus important information about products, tools, equipment, and overall salon policies and procedures. Students also learn the professional terminology and vocabulary needed to master this theory, thus creating a standardization of terminology designed to reduce the confusion long known in our industry over such terms as “feathering” and “furnishings,” or a “kennel trim” and a “sporting trim,” for example. By offering theory online, all students receive the same very important information, eliminating the problems of absent students missing critical lectures and the issues of trying to make up those lectures.
Setting a Standard
The Nash System of online courses fully prepares students for the hands-on portion of their training at your salon with a complete vocabulary of professional terminology and a thorough grasp of the theory of bathing, grooming and styling. When our online students first stand before a grooming table with a dog on that table for them to bathe, groom, or style, they are familiar with the necessary tools, equipment, safety gear and overall salon procedures. They are not starting from square one. They are prepared to become excellent bathers, groomers and stylists, and no one knows that any better than professionals who participate in our educational system.
Without Any Geographical Boundaries
One of the many wonderful attributes of our online education is that students can take these courses from home, wherever home may be: it is truly universal, without any geographical boundaries. However, our students are then faced with the next part of their education: the practical application, or hands-on portion of their training. Many individuals with family obligations and financial restraints cannot leave home for weeks at a time or be without a job to undertake these practical skills courses and have not been able to attend Nash Academy. For this reason, we created the concept of the On The Job Training Sites. These sites are salons located around the world, owned or operated by Nash graduates or dedicated pet care professionals believing in and committed to the Nash System. Our students who have completed their online courses go to work and learn the practical skills portion of their program through an on the job training apprenticeship.
No One Does It Better Than a Nash Grad
We know and you know that no one does it better than Nash graduates practicing the Nash philosophy. Too often we have heard from bathers, groomers, stylists and competitors in the contest arena that their dream was to come to the Nash Academy, but because the travel expenses or the time they would have to spend away from their family was just too much, they had to choose other means to receive their education. Our dream now is to bring the practical skills, hands-on training to the student by utilizing the best, our Nash graduates and dedicated, well trained professionals.
Be Part of the Nash Team
The benefits to all involved are obvious and exciting. First of all, you will become part of the Nash Team. Your salon will be on the list of salons offering on the job training on our website. You can recommend or require individuals seeking employment to go through the online courses before you hire them.
Totally Prepared Students
The students sent to you by the Nash Academy will be prepared, knowledgeable in bathing, grooming and styling and its professional vocabulary, and about the dog as well, and versed in the compassionate Nash methodology. If your staff is trained in this same system and utilizes the Nash Groomers Reference, communication will be straightforward and easy, and as the new professionals move ahead in their professional careers at your salon, you and the Nash Academy will be instrumental in creating a standardization in our profession which has never been seen before in terms of terminology, methodology, and kindness. This standardization and professionalism moves all of us closer to the model of the future for our profession that we all envision, in which highly expert, licensed, articulate bathers, groomers and stylists define and create the respect our profession should garner.
If The Answer is YES
We are seeking those who are passionately involved in our profession, who attend trade shows and relish the exchange of ideas and thrive on continuing education, who compete at the highest levels in their home town, and who share our excitement at the prospects for the future which our industry has. We are seeking to create a network of the best, dedicated to training the best, and devoted, as well, to the Nash vision of the pet care professions as defined by the highest levels of creativity, professional standards, shared goals, and compassion for the pets. Do you fill that bill? Do you believe your salon will be able to offer on the job training to students with professionalism? Students with excellent technical and profile skills who apply these skills and all other salon procedures with the safe and gentle handling of man’s best friend? If the answer is yes, we hope that you will become a part of this new training program with the concept of using the best to train the best.
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