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To Be A Good Mentor by Mary Erickson / www.TheMakeupArtist.com |
- Please sign up as a mentor if you are in a position to teach. This means you have been doing makeup, hair, or styling for years and are successful.
- Please do not ask an assistant to work without compensation, if your client is paying for the assistant. Be upfront about what the client is paying and what the assistant is receiving.
- Please do not take advantage of the assistants, give them what they came to learn. Give them makeup tips if that is what they are trying to learn, give them hair styling tips if that is what they came to learn. Do not just use them. If they work all day free or for very little money, they should leave with new knowledge they can take with them and use in their careers.
- Always be upfront about what the assistant is receiving from the work. Prints? A lesson? Time to watch you during the day? Can they put the work on their resume? Can they add the photos to their books? If the assistant is working without compensation the mentor should have some time in the day to allow the assistant to watch and learn. If this is not possible, the mentor should give a lesson on his or her own time to the assistant.
- Please do not work as an agent, keeping part of the assistants pay, as a commission for work you find the assistant. That is not what mentoring is about.
- Please do not try to recruit people on the list to sell products.
- Please treat the assistants with respect. Let them know if they have done anything on the job that may hurt them in their career. This is an education for them and they need to know that being late, not showing up, sitting around chatting on the cell phone, inviting their boyfriend to the shoot etc. is unprofessional. It is a mentor's responsibility to let the assistants know when they need to correct a problem.
- Never ask an assistant
to pay for lessons. These assistants are looking for mentors not classes.
This industry is in need of mentors, people willing to share their knowledge with others. Thank you for taking this leadership role.