Nina Band, has had lots of life experience, from completing a degree in photography, to travelling and working in retail. Only to find that she hadn’t quite found what she wanted to do.
“It was when I was working in retail that I realised how unhappy I was within my work life. I didn’t want to be in retail anymore and knew I needed to get out before I’d spent too much time there. It was friends in the hairdressing industry that got me rethinking my options; a few weeks later, I was working in the salon and signed up onto a Level 2 Apprenticeship!
“Covid hit quite quickly after I started which really hit hard in terms of my practical work, it was really challenging and difficult to keep motivated but I just had to keep positive, telling myself I could do this and see it through to the end. The benefits of the end goal of having a trade and having a career I really loved, got me through.
“Now, I am so relieved and super proud that I’m fully-qualified and to have achieved a Distinction in my EPA makes me even happier. All the hard and testing times have now paid off – I’m a confident stylist with clients who love my work and a team which I am really close with. Looking back now, I would do it all over again to be in my position now.
“I want to continue to work at Yoke, I want to get to the top of my game, be reputable and most importantly keep enjoying what I do every day.”