Job Type
Full-time
Location Type
On-site
Location
Vancouver, BC
Salary
$23.00–$30.00 CAD/hour
Job Description
AI Summary
This Hairstylist role at V-SALON in Vancouver, BC involves cutting, styling, colouring, and treating clients' hair. Key duties include shampooing, providing scalp massages, and suggesting suitable hairstyles. Applicants should have a secondary school graduation certificate and 2 to less than 3 years of experience in the field.
Responsibilities
This position requires performing a wide range of hairstyling and colouring services. Responsibilities include cutting, trimming, shampooing, and styling hair according to client preferences. The role also involves providing hair treatments such as waving, straightening, tinting, and scalp conditioning massages. Hair colouring tasks include applying bleach, tints, dyes, and rinses to colour, frost, or streak hair. Candidates will also clean and style wigs and hair pieces, and suggest hairstyles compatible with clients' features. Required hair styling techniques include blow drying, hair braiding, iron waving/curling, permanents, twisting, relaxing, and pin curls. Hair colouring techniques include bleach, dyes/tints, frosting, and streaking/highlights.
Requirements
Applicants must possess a secondary (high) school graduation certificate and have 2 to less than 3 years of experience as a hairstylist. The work environment is fast-paced and involves repetitive tasks, requiring attention to detail and hand-eye coordination. Physical capabilities required include a combination of sitting, standing, and walking, with extended periods of standing. The work setting is a barbershop or hairstyling salon/studio with a non-smoking environment.
Compensation and Schedule
Financial compensation for this role includes commission and gratuities. The employment terms offer options for day and weekend shifts.
Why this job suits newcomers
This job is highly relevant for newcomers to Canada as it is LMIA-positive, supporting permanent residency applications for qualified candidates. Located in Vancouver, a major settlement city, it does not explicitly require prior Canadian experience, making it accessible for international talent.