hairdresser

Additional Information

• Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

Work setting

• Barbershop or hairstyling salon/studio

Tasks

• Shampoo customers' hair
• Supervise other hair stylists and other staff
• Supervise apprentices/students in training
• Analyze hair and scalp condition and provide basic treatment or advice on beauty care treatments for scalp and hair
• Apply bleach, tints, dyes or rinses to colour, frost or streak hair
• Apply hair extensions
• Clean and style wigs and hair pieces
• Cut, trim, taper, curl, wave, perm and style hair
• Suggest hair style compatible with client's physical features or determine style from client's instructions and preferences
• Maintain and order supplies

Hair styling techniques

• Blow drying
• Iron waving/curling
• Permanents
• Extensions
• Twisting
• Locking
• Roller setting

Hair colouring techniques

• Bleach
• Dyes/tints
• Streaking/highlights

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Reliability
• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week