in Small Business
Issue No. 3 - December/ 2001/january
Modelling Prospects
Rachel Sanderson shows where personal development can take you. Once an aspiring corporate accountant worried about graduating with 300 similarly qualified jobseekers, Rachel is now directing one of the State’s most active modelling agencies.
Founded in 1994, Rachel’s Model Management grew from Rachel’s early experience with modelling training, which she undertook to improve her accountancy career prospects.
Soon after her graduation, Rachel accepted an administration position at Power Modelling. It transpired that she was more qualified than Power’s accountancy consultant, so for the next year and a half she found herself getting very well acquainted with the financial ins and outs of her adopted industry.
Grasping the essentials quickly, Rachel made no secret of wanting to set up on her own. Leaving Power, she moved on to McLeod Model
Management which at the time was one of the State’s oldest modelling firms, having managed models for almost 40 years.
Setting up shop in September 1994, Rachel put her ideas into action immediately. “The main thing I try to do better is to make the models feel valued,” Rachel says. “It’s heartbreaking if a model leaves.”
Security is indicative. Rachel never accepts a job that leaves a model open to harm of any kind. “If I don’t feel right about a job, the model doesn’t go,” she says.
Training people in personal grooming is an important part of Rachel’s business, as a...
