Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a hairdresser can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a hairdresser already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Hairdressers offer beauty services such as cutting, colouring, bleaching, permanent waving and styling clients' hair. They ask their clients about their hairstyle preferences in order to provide customised services. Hairdressers use clippers, scissors and razors. They provide hair and scalp treatments and shampoo, condition and rinse hair.

Also known as hair colour specialist, wig stylist, hair cutter, hair-care specialist, scalp treatment specialist, hairstyling specialist, cosmetologist, hair colourist.

Service and sales workers 38 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: barber, 79%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
barber 79% covered hair removal technician 48% covered personal stylist 39% covered tanning consultant 38% covered manicurist 35% covered hairdresser You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from hairdresser, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a hairdresser already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A hairdresser needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • curl hair assisting and caring
  • hair colouring services
  • use equipment for hair care assisting and caring
  • wash hair assisting and caring
  • hair products services
  • advise on hair style communication, collaboration and creativity
  • dye hair assisting and caring
  • stay up-to-date with hair style trends information skills
  • style hair assisting and caring
  • hair services
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a hairdresser does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Hairdresser is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a hairdresser’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.