About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Work setting: Barbershop or hairstyling salon/studio.
Tasks
- Advise clients on beauty care treatments.
- Book appointments.
- Cut and trim hair according to client's instructions or preferences.
- Provide custom hair and scalp treatment.
- Shampoo customers' hair.
- Shave and trim beards and mustaches.
- Provide other hair treatment, such as waving, straightening and tinting and also provide scalp conditioning massages.
- Apply bleach, tints, dyes or rinses to colour, frost or streak hair.
- Cut, trim, taper, curl, wave, perm and style hair.
- Suggest hair style compatible with client's physical features and preferences.
- Hair styling techniques: Blow drying.
- Hair braiding.
- Iron waving/curling.
- Extensions.
- Hair colouring techniques: Bleach.
- Dyes/tints.
- Streaking/highlights.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Fast-paced environment.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Manual dexterity.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Personal suitability: Client focus.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Flexibility.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Screening questions: Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?.
- Employment terms options: Evening.
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years.
- Employment terms options: Flexible hours.
- Morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Other benefits: Free parking available.
- Other benefits.
Support for persons with disabilities: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports persons with disabilities . Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities. Support for newcomers and refugees: Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.) . Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees . Support for youths: Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth.
Support for Veterans: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans . Support for Indigenous people: Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers . Support for mature workers: Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination . Supports for visible minorities: Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).