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I just finished massage school with a world wide company called Steiner Education group... I don't want to say which school, or campus... but they recently recruited two girls from my class that in my opnion were TERRIBLE therapists, and in school had a reputation for not giving a client centered experience.

They were both hired to cruise ships right out of school without having ANY professional experience! Neither of them has even passed the National Certification exam yet, both of them had "C" grade point averages also. In class we all presumed that these Cruise ship jobs must be so demanding that the positions must be hard to fill, and that Steiner will take on anyone brave, or naive enough to apply!

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The reason is...
by: Anonymous

I would say the reason they were hired is because Steiner Education is not about their staff providing brilliant massages, instead massage is used as a vehicle for the trained therapists to sell their cosmetology products. I would not recommend this avenue because they find massage therapists who have trained well and are totally committed to their discipline of healing and relaxation, and train them in an artificial massage technique that focusses on oils to make therapists cross-selling sales reps. You are paid about $50 a week for what you are hired for (massage), and the rest of your pay is based on your ability to sell oil. I hope serious massage therapists have more self-value than to go down to this degrading symptom of massage not being taken seriously.

Considering this, the two girls who just slided their way through massage school without a lot of demonstrated dedication might suit perfectly to what their value is on the ship.

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Steiners....
by: D. J.

I was looking to join Steiner after finishing my Massage Therapy program in Dec. 2010. I was wanting to gain the experience of working on a cruise ship as a background in opening my own spa when I finished my contract....now you have given me something more to think about...Thanks!

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wow this is an eye opener
by: K

I've read the comments and I want to take them seriously. I graduated from massage therapy school last year to increase my salary and to promote health and wellness to the world. I'm so interested in working for a cruise ship, that I just applied to steiner today. They were in Chicago this past August but I missed their visit.

Regarding them making you sales associates instead of focusing on what's majorly important, the massage, is disappointing news to my ears. Is this really what massage has come down to? I'm a serious therapist and don't want to train with Steiner to learn what I already know, to have my skills and knowledge downplayed by sales. I'm so convicted now....please help!

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I DISAGREE
by: Anonymous

I attended a Steiner-owned massage therapy school and need to disagree with what I'm hearing here. I finished school with a 3.96 GPA and know that I received a quality education; they covered more modalities than any of the other 4 or 5 massage therapy schools in my state. The instructors were excellent and never once did anybody who worked at the school give me the impression that bodywork was just a means to the end of selling products to a client.
Yes, there were students who barely skated by in the classes...but how can you blame Steiner for that? There were also people who weren't that great at giving bodywork...but you can't blame Steiner or the instructors for that either. Being a large corporation, the people at Steiner hiring for the cruise jobs probably only saw the academic records for the students they were hiring...I am certain they did not hear your or any of the other fellow students opinions of these two individuals.
As for Steiner hiring somebody with a C grade to work on a cruise ship...what's so wrong with that? Are you saying that only people who excel in their training should ever receive a job? If that were the case, then the unemployment rate would be astronomical. And those of us who did excel at training would be paying much higher taxes in order to support the people who did not excel. Think on that a little.....

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