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Certificate II in Salon Assistant

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Gain confidence and experience in a salon environment with this hands-on course. Delivered two days per week over a 20-week period, this course will teach you how to interact with customers professionally and communicate in the workplace, while increasing your career opportunities for the future.

Key details

Degree Type
Certificate
Duration
20 weeks full-time

About this course

Gain confidence and experience in a salon environment with this hands-on course.
Delivered two days per week over a 20-week period, this course will teach you how to interact with customers professionally and communicate in the workplace, while increasing your career opportunities for the future.

Get the knowledge and skills needed to work in a hairdressing salon. With a focus on high-quality customer service skills and basic hairdressing tasks including shampoo services, basic blow drying and hair braiding, this course is designed to give you hands-on experience working with real clients in our simulated training salons.
Gain confidence and experience in a salon environment, learning how to interact with customers professionally and communicate in the workplace, while increasing your career opportunities for the future.
If you're ready to hack into hairdressing, come and study with us and be taught by some of the best in the industry.

Did you know: The Victorian Government has now made Free TAFE courses even more accessible for new students enrolling for study in 2023. All Free TAFE courses at TAFE Gippsland are now available to people with higher-level qualifications and those who have completed a previous Free TAFE course and are looking to continue in their selected training pathway. Conditions and eligibility rules apply. Check out our Free TAFE information page for further details.

The combined skills and knowledge do not provide for a job outcome as a hairdresser and this qualification is intended to prepare individuals for further training.
Possible employment outcomes may include working as a salon assistant and providing the following services including assisting senior hairdressers with applying hair colour product, performing basic blow waves, shampooing clients, setting up workspaces, carrying out reception duties and scheduling clients, communicating and interacting with staff and clients to ensure a positive and safe salon environment.

TAFE Gippsland offers higher level qualifications from the SHB Training Package including Certificate III's in both Hair and Beauty streams.
SHB30416 Certificate III in Hairdressing
SHB30115 Certificate III in Beauty Services
SHB30215 Certificate III in Makeup


You will gain skills and knowledge to work as a salon assistant including but not limited to:
- Salon communication
- Conducting financial transactions
- Basic blow waving and drying of hair
- Braiding of hair
- Shampoo and basin services for clients
- Reception duties
- Interacting with and providing service to clients
- Product and service knowledge within the hairdressing industry.







Are there specified requirements for entry into the course/qualification?: No

Career pathways

The combined skills and knowledge do not provide for a job outcome as a hairdresser and this qualification is intended to prepare individuals for further training.
Possible employment outcomes may include working as a salon assistant and providing the following services including assisting senior hairdressers with applying hair colour product, performing basic blow waves, shampooing clients, setting up workspaces, carrying out reception duties and scheduling clients, communicating and interacting with staff and clients to ensure a positive and safe salon environment.