The Wool Industry
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Develop your skills in an industry that rewards hard work. WOMOlife offers online courses providing practical learning in a range of agricultural areas of skill — sheep shearing, crutching, wool handling, penning, pressing and more.
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Choose the course that’s right for you.
Learn anywhere, anytime with WOMOlife’s online video modules. These simple bite-sized course modules are designed to make it easy for you to learn the fundamentals or up skill in an agricultural area of choice. You’ll learn from industry experts demonstrating technique and gain knowledge to apply on the job.
Choose from video-based Certificates of Completion or Certificates of Achievement. What's the difference between a Completion and Achievement course? A Certificate of Achievement has additional PDF resources and Q&As, taking your learning to the next level.
Launch your career and build your skills.
Farm hands, shepherds, holiday workers, farmers and career-focused shearers and wool handlers will all find a course that suits. Some of New Zealand’s most successful farmers, business people (including Prime Ministers), started their careers in the wool shed. It’s a great skill that can have you travelling the world and earning good money from an early age.
Introducing WOMOlife presenters:
Laura Hancock
Nathan Stratford
Carmen Smith
Jeremy Goodger
Certificates of Completion
Build the essential skills you need with our simple how-to videos that cover a range of farming topics. Watch, learn, then apply your skills on the job. You will receive a Certificate of Completion once you have viewed all videos in the course curriculum.
Wool Handling
• Industry Standards, Wool Handling Fundamentals, introduction to Crutching
• Short Wool*
• Full Wool* (available Jan 2021).
These courses offer how-to videos on: Wool handling equipment, the shearing pattern, shed preparation, LCC, clip preparation, wool handling for crutching and short wool.
* available only on completion of the fundamentals course.
Shearing
• Industry Standards, Shearing Gear, Shearing Fundamentals
• Crutching
• Shearing Methods*.
These courses offer how-to videos on: Shearing gear, catch and drag, crutching, the shearing blows, footwork, the free hand, animal welfare.
* available only on completion of the fundamentals course.
Shed Hands
• Industry Standards
• Penning
• Pressing
These courses offer how-to videos on: Shed preparation, types of pens and gates, pen safety, pressing methods, branding and storing bales.
Certificates of Achievement
The video content is the same as for a Certificate of Completion, learning through how-to videos. By enrolling in a Certificate of Achievement course, your learning is reinforced as these courses include supporting PDF resources and Q&As. You will receive a Certificate of Achievement once you have completed all the modules and answered the test questions in the course curriculum.
Wool Handling
• Industry Standards and Fundamentals
• Short Wool*
• Full Wool* (Coming Soon
These courses offer how-to videos, pdfs and Q&As on: Wool handling equipment, the shearing pattern, shed preparation, LCC, clip preparation, wool handling for crutching and short wool.
*available only on completion of the fundamentals course.
Shearing
• Industry Standards,Gear, Shearing Fundamentals
• Crutching
• Shearing Methods*
These courses offers how-to videos, pdfs and Q&As on: Shearing gear, catch and drag, crutching, the shearing blows, footwork, the free hand, animal welfare.
*available only on completion of the fundamentals course.
Shed Hands
• Industry Standards
• Penning
• Pressing
These courses offer how-to videos, pdfs and Q&As on: Shed preparation, types of pens and gates, pen safety, pressing methods, branding and storing bales.
Frequently asked questions
1
How much does this cost?
Pricing for our online based courses start from NZ$99. The cost will depend on which type of course you choose and whether you are completing a certificate level course.
2
What will I gain from the course?
In addition to real-world skills and knowledge, WOMOlife will issue you with a certificate once you complete your course. You can show this to a potential employer or your current employer as evidence of learning. Completing courses allows you to demonstrate learning before or during the early stages of your career.
3
What resources will I have access to after I finish my course?
Your WOMOlife login will be valid for one year. During this time you will have unlimited access to revisit course material, even after you have completed your course.
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How does it work?
Each course is designed to track progress in your learning modules. Once you have completed all your modules, we automatically issue the relevant certificate. With our longer courses we also track workshops and assessments that are built into the course.
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