Hair and Beauty
As you would expect, hairdressers and barbers cut, style and treat hair. Beauty Therapists give face and body beauty treatments and apply cosmetics. Beauty Consultants sell cosmetics and beauty products in shops and department stores. Apart from hair and beauty salons on the high street, you can also find jobs in hotels, leisure clubs or department stores. Working in close contact with the general public is the key feature of all of these types of work and anyone thinking about them should be comfortable with this.
Coursefinder Links
Jobs In Hair and Beauty
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Connexions Direct: Hair and Beauty
The Connexions-Direct Jobs4U Careers Database is a list of job families. You will commonly find the word Sectors used instead of job families. This link will take you to the Hair and Beauty sector or family of jobs.
Habia is the government approved standards setting body for hair, beauty, nails, spa therapy, barbering and African-Caribbean hairdressing, and creates the standards that form the basis of all qualifications including NVQs, SVQs and Apprenticeships, as well as codes of practice. There is interesting information here about courses and qualifications at all levels.