Jobs in hairdressing

Hairdressing is a fantastic career choice and your job in hairdressing will certainly be filled with a dynamic range of clients, styles and fashions. You can develop a vast career through hairdressing training (both academic and vocational). There are many options open to a new hairdresser, you could work for a well known salon or even go on to own your own hairdressers business in a local town.

Ideally you should be a creative type of person, enjoy working in a team and having direct contact with your clients. An ambitious nature is highly regarded and valuable for a job in hairdressing, as you will be working in a £2.6 billion industry. Successful hairdressers can enjoy top jobs around the globe, travelling to style supermodels on photo shoots, TV and movie stars on set, magazine models and much more.

What training will you need to become a hairdresser?

Starting out with a career in hairdressing you will require some formal training such as NVQs. You could start as an apprentice and train while you’re on the job which allows you to earn money, train and gain valued vocational skills. To start with you would be doing day-to-day tasks such as:

1. Booking appointments
2. Welcoming customers
3. Shampooing hair
4. Changing towel supplies
5. Cleaning away cut hair and keeping the salon tidy

Once qualified and employed as a full time hairdresser your job in hairdressing would include tasks such as:

1. Client consultation on hair styles and fashion
2. Shampooing and conditioning
3. Cutting, colouring and styling
4. Perming, straightening and blow drying    
5. Product advice
6. Health and safety of chemical treatments
7. Ordering stock
8. Handling payments, refunds and complaints

What can you expect the pay and working hours to be like as a hairdresser?

As a trainee hairdresser you would earn the national minimum wage for your age range, after training you can expect to earn between £11,000 and £20,000 a year depending on your location, training level, experience, etc – with many London employers paying over £30,000 for top hairdressers.

You will be working around 40 hours per week depending on the type of hairdressing job you choose. The working hours depend totally on the job role, for example in fashion you maybe working late evenings or early mornings with a film shoot, however regular work in salons is generally between 9 – 6.

What should you do next?

The hairdressing industry is a huge business and can take you all around the world with a wide variety of locations, job roles and clientele available. Salonjobseeker.com makes finding your perfect hairdressing job so much easier by giving you direct access to employers looking for candidates just like you and providing services which keep you up to date with the very latest opportunities. Why not register your profile and upload your CV free today.