Description
If you are ready to get serious about SCUBA diving as a career choice, let this book be a fast-pass through some of the mental, motivational and administrative obstacles that many of us have had to overcome when becoming a diving professional.
This book covers everything you need to know to turn your life around and to start teaching SCUBA diving professionally. Some of the chapters include:
1. 7 Habits of a Successful Dive Instructor
2. Getting Your Life Sorted
3. Training Agencies, Dive Centers and Equipment
4. Setting Expectations
5. Writing a Good Scuba Resume and Social Media
6. How to Land Your Dream Job
7. Common Mistakes on the Job
8. When Things Go Wrong
9. Safeguard Your Future – Visa, Insurance and Retirement
10. Finding Your Niche
11. Becoming an Industry Leader
12. The 20% Club
13. Advice and Stories from the Pros
Nick Derutter is a multi award winning PADI™ Platinum Course Director. He has trained hundreds of diving instructors and thousands of recreational divers worldwide.
He runs Instructor Development programs in The Americas and Europe, is a Tec Trimix instructor, hyperbaric chamber operator and Diveheart™ Adaptive SCUBA Instructor Trainer. Besides teaching SCUBA divers and instructors, he runs a successful online dive store called Dive SAGA™, an online diving magazine and a diving media business.