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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Provide barbering services, such as cutting, trimming, shampooing, and styling hair, trimming beards, or giving shaves. | Clean and sterilize scissors, combs, clippers, and other instruments. | |||
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Cut and trim hair according to clients' instructions and/or current hairstyles, using clippers, combs, hand-held blow driers, and scissors. | ||||
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Drape and pin protective cloths around customers' shoulders. | ||||
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Question patrons regarding desired services and haircut styles. | ||||
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Clean work stations and sweep floors. | ||||
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Record services provided on cashiers' tickets or receive payment from customers. | ||||
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Order supplies. | ||||
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Shape and trim beards and moustaches, using scissors. | ||||
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Stay informed of the latest styles and hair care techniques. | ||||
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Suggest treatments to alleviate hair problems. | ||||
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Shampoo hair. | ||||
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Keep card files on clientele, recording notes of work done, products used and fees charged after each visit. | ||||
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Perform clerical and administrative duties such as keeping records, paying bills, and hiring and supervising personnel. | ||||
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Curl, color, or straighten hair, using special chemical solutions and equipment. | ||||
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Apply lather; and shave beards, or neck and temple hair contours, using razors. | ||||
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Measure, fit, and groom hairpieces. | ||||
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Recommend and sell lotions, tonics, or other cosmetic supplies. | ||||
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Provide face, neck, and scalp massages. | ||||
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Provide skin care and nail treatments. | ||||
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Identify hair problems, using microscopes and testing devices, or by sending clients' hair samples out to independent laboratories for analysis. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Barbers
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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On-the-Job Training | None or short demonstration | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Barber | |||
Barber Apprentice | |||
Barber Shop Operator | |||
Cosmetologist | |||
Hair Cutter | |||
Hair Stylist | |||
Hairdresser | |||
Master Barber | |||
Salon Manager | |||
Stylist | |||
Tonsorial Artist | |||
Trichologist | |||
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