For professional organizer training you have to first understand that you have to commit to this. Professional organizing, as the name suggests, is professional; and it most certainly is not a hobby. This is going to be a full-time job for you, so in practice it has no difference from becoming, say, an engineer when it comes to training and education. So prepare yourself for it and if you really want it, then go for it.
Professional Organizer Training: Where to Start
It starts not with education, but by training yourself. Like we said on other articles on our site, you do need a track record of being an organized, neat person. You can’t simply look up from the pile of filth you are in, and say, “I want to become a professional organizer.” If you are not a neat person who always thought of himself or herself as good at categorizing and organizing things; it’s best if you simply keep away from professional organizer training and certification.
If you are a neat and organized person, however; you have an unique opportunity in life that very few people have: Have a full time job in an area you excel at, without having to require four years of useless university/college education. Professional organizer training is mostly a personal thing where you learn by doing. However, to validate yourself and guarantee customers, you do need professional organizer certification. There are various places you can get this certification, and in any case it will be useful; but some organizations are more highly reputed than others. A full-online test is definitely not going to be as validating as a test you personally have to go to and take.
Professional Organizer Training: Importance of Cameras
For better professional organizer training, you should start with organizing your close relatives’ places. Don’t charge them with anything, just find a place of their house that looks really unorganized and offer them to organize it. This could be closets, rooms, storage places… most anything. The goal here is to deal with organizing a place that is not yours, and even more importantly; having a beginning portfolio which you can show to your potential clients. That is why a camera is so important – if you can arrange the professional organizing of a relative, you can shoot “before/after” pictures of your professional organizing work. Especially if you manage to get good pictures (meaning horrible looking ones for “before” and great looking ones for “after” pictures) it is a huge bonus to getting customers since it is worth a thousand words.
This is the pillar of your professional organizer training!