Beauty School May Be Popular During This Time of High Unemployment

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Beauty School May Be Popular During This Time of High Unemployment

Published: March 10, 2009
by Rosanne Ullman

Vocational and advanced educational programs like cosmetology school traditionally see a boost in enrollment during tough economic periods plagued by high unemployment. “A lot of people want to increase their skill levels or get th

at degree they didn’t have,” Professor I. Elaine Allen of Babson College told a reporter for chronicle.com. Allen attributed the motivation as much to fear of losing a job as to actually having already been laid off. As I’ve said many times here on the blog, there’s no maximum age for a beauty school student. If you love doing hair, esthetics or nails, go for it!

No one can be sure how long this recession will last or how high unemployment will go. Economists are all over the place in their predictions. So people who are unemployed figure that a year of beauty school may be a great investment of their time if, during that year, they couldn’t get a well-paying job anyway.

If you go to cosmetology school now, by the time the year is over your job-hunting landscape will have changed in two ways: first, the economy may have improved and, second, you’ll have a new set of skills that make you highly employable. Even in bad economic times, people still get their hair cut if for no other reason than they have to look good for their job interviews. Better times have to come sooner or later, and when they hit I think that salons will be just packed.

Photo is of Paul Mitchell School in Chicago.