Instructions:
Rate your knowledge performing specific job-related tasks, knowledge skill or ability.
Tasks:
1. Shampoo and condition patients’ hair using a cape and/or necessary cleansing products to ensure hygiene is maintained and cleaned.
2. Drape and pin protective cloths around patients’ shoulders to prevent hair from falling on neck and clothes.
3. Style patients’ hair using a comb, scissors, and/or blow dryer to ensure hair is groomed and cleaned.
4. Cut and trim hair according to patients' instructions or current hairstyles using clippers, combs, hand-held blow driers, and scissors.
5. Provide waxing services (e.g., eyebrows, facial hairs, mustache) using a tweezer, wooden spatula, and/or materials appropriate to strip off hair.
6. Shape and trim beards and moustaches using scissors.
7. Provide patients with a cloth to cool and numb the redness on the skin before and after shaving/waxing.
8. Clean the skin directly with cleanser to sanitize surface area before and after shaving/waxing.
9. Schedule and track appointments using a calendar book for providing cosmetology services for patients.
10. Record services provided to patients in order to track appointments.
11. Clean and sterilize scissors, combs, clippers, and other instruments to ensure tools are sanitized.
12. Clean work stations and sweep floors to ensure area is clean at all times.
13. Make copies of patient appointments to provide manager with scheduling and tracking purposes to ensure that written policies and procedures are in place and followed.
14. Perform cosmetology services on patients using nail polishes and/or cosmetics.
15. Clean and maintain the barber shop and/or beauty shop to ensure it meets health and safety standards.
16. Maintain inventory and requisitions of supplies and equipment to ensure adequate supplies on hand.
KSAPCs:
17. Knowledge of principles and practices of cosmetology and skill in their application, including treatment of hair, face and hands.
18. Knowledge of beauty shop apparatus and skill in its use.
19. Knowledge of required practices of antisepsis, sterilization, sanitation and safety as applied to beauty shop operations.
20. Knowledge of principles of effective supervision.
21. Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
22. Knowledge of safety guidelines and standards.
23. Ability to direct the work of others.
24. Ability to manage a beauty shop and/or barber shop.
25. Ability to establish and maintain rapport with patients.
26. Ability to analyze situations accurately and adopt an effective course of action.
27. Ability to keep records and prepare reports.
28. Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
29. Ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
30. Ability to see details at close range when performing tasks.
