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Hairdressing or beauty salon managers or proprietors plan, organise and coordinate the daily activities of salons. Learn more about this role, how your career might develop and what you can study or do to help you get a job.
Career development in this sector is usually driven by technical skill, personal marketability and management skills.
You’ll usually start your career as an assistant in a salon, often while studying towards a professional qualification. You’ll then be able to progress into an unsupervised stylist or hairdresser role. With experience you might move into supervisor roles before getting a salon management position.
Experienced stylists might choose to work for themselves, working out of their homes or starting their own salon business.
Hair and beauty are vocational fields with no defined career structure, so you’ll need to be proactive in your career development. Keeping up to date with new treatments, tools and equipment will help you stay current and stand out to customers.
External courses in business management or administration, especially in areas like business strategy, bookkeeping or team leadership, will help you move into more senior positions.
You might join the National Hair and Beauty Federation (NHBF) to access further training and networking opportunities, as well as showing your professionalism to potential employers.
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