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A class project for one Okanagan College student has become a little more than just school work.
Faye Hughes is a fourth year student in the Okanagan College Business Administration degree program. Students had to create a 50 page human resources manual as part of their Social Entrepreneurship course. Hughes worked with Heather Stewart, the Co-President of the Estheticians and Spa Professionals Association British Columbia. The two worked together to better understand members’ needs for Human Resources.
“She was just amazing and her manual went far beyond what we initially expected,” said Stewart. “Faye and I will be presenting the manual at our convention in February in Vancouver and will be giving all the members an electronic copy.”
Before attending Okanagan College, Hughes was a hairstylist for a year and a half, and was able to use her experience as part of her manual.
“She trained as a hairstylist, she worked in a spa, and she knows the industry. Faye really went above and beyond. The scope and depth of material covered in her manual was beyond what we had initially envisioned,” Stewart explained.
The manual will help owners of small and medium sized businesses understand good human resources and already there’s interest from another college in the Lower Mainland to use the new manual in their esthetician training program.
On top of the college wanting to use it, Leading Spas of Canada, the national organization of spa owners is currently reviewing the manual for distribution.
“It was incredible how everything I’ve learned over the past four years in business at Okanagan College in human resources and other courses came into play with my experience on this,” said Hughes.
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