{"id":98,"date":"2009-01-26T23:25:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T20:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:02:46","slug":"the-value-of-an-education-targeted-to-your-specific-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/the-value-of-an-education-targeted-to-your-specific-career\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of an Education Targeted to Your Specific Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fashion schools and art\u00a0academies offer well-rounded educations in fields including Fashion Design, Visual Merchandising, Merchandise Marketing, Product Development, Beauty Industry Marketing, and the list goes on.\u00a0 Few offer\u00a0a targeted education in the exact career you are looking for – Image Consulting.\u00a0 In most cases,\u00a0to achieve an Associate of Arts certificate, students must\u00a0invest up to 9\u00a0months or more and enroll in or already have completed courses including English, literature and composition, science and math.\u00a0 And not every previously completed\u00a0credit course transfers to every institute.<\/p>\n

So what about those professionals ready to switch careers now?\u00a0 What if you worked your way up in a career without a college education?\u00a0 Maybe you are ready to re-join the ranks of the hundreds of thousands of successful entrepreneurs after raising a family.\u00a0\u00a0If you are eager to start making now – not 9-18 months from now, where do you go?<\/p>\n

\"Sterling<\/a>The Sterling Style Academy<\/a> offers not only offers highly targeted, in depth training to launch your image consulting and\/or personal stylist career in less than one month<\/a>, we also provide an affordable alternative to fashion schools and Associate Programs.<\/p>\n

Over a 2.5 week time frame and in 71.5 intensive credit hours,\u00a0our career training boils down to an investment of just $95 per hour!\u00a0 Students enrolled in the 4 week program<\/a> receive the same\u00a0professional training in\u00a0137.5 credit hours for a very competitive\u00a0$60 per hour!<\/p>\n

Compare that to the costs of the AAS degree in Fashion offered by the Art Institute, New York: a total time\u00a0investment of 7 quarters, 15 credits per quarter, $509 per credit for a total monetary investment of $54,415.<\/p>\n

An\u00a0Associate of Arts degree\u00a0from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, California\u00a0requires 9 months, 45 units and a monetary investment of $21,170 for Fashion Design or $20,160 for Merchandise Marketing.<\/p>\n

If launching the career of your dreams doesn’t necessarily\u00a0require\u00a0training in\u00a0fabric draping, history of costume design, math for\u00a0the retail buyer,\u00a0or merchandise planning and control then why waste your precious time and money?\u00a0 Enroll in Sterling Style Academy<\/a> and get ready to hit the ground running in one month or less!<\/p>\n

About the Sterling Style Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>The Sterling Style Academy<\/a> trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.\u00a0 With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York<\/a>, London<\/a>, Dubai<\/a>, Mumbai<\/a>, Hong Kong<\/a>, Sydney<\/a>, Miami<\/a>, Las Vegas<\/a>, and San Francisco<\/a>, as well as Online Training<\/a>, Teleclasses<\/a>, and Short eCourses<\/a>, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.\u00a0 Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.\u00a0 Contact the Sterling Style Academy today<\/a> to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about \u2013 shopping and styling!\u00a0 Like us or become our\u00a0BFF on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fashion schools and art\u00a0academies offer well-rounded educations in fields including Fashion Design, Visual Merchandising, Merchandise Marketing, Product Development, Beauty Industry Marketing, and the list goes on.\u00a0 Few offer\u00a0a targeted education in the exact career you are looking for – Image Consulting.\u00a0 In most cases,\u00a0to achieve an Associate of Arts certificate, students must\u00a0invest up to 9\u00a0months…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[161,251,462,468,484,493,789,948,1119,1151],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-effective-tips-to-on-how-to-become-an-image-consultant","category-sterling-style-academy-training-courses","tag-become-a-certified-image-consultant","tag-certified-image-consultant","tag-fashion-design-school","tag-fashion-school","tag-fashion-training","tag-fidm","tag-merchandise-marketing","tag-personal-shopper-training","tag-sterling-style-academy","tag-style-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17745,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/17745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterlingstyleacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}