owieb

From the The Daily Telegraph
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ADVICE to immigrants seeking employment: Throw away the doctorate and take up the scissors.

The Department of Immigration has now listed hairdressing as one of its "occupations in demand" and those in possession of such skills are desperately needed in Australia.

So much so, that hairdressers will receive extra points when applying for immigration.

It is estimated that as many as 200 people a year from overseas are being granted residency on the basis of being professional hairdressers. Fridge and air-conditioning mechanics, computer specialists and nurses are also on the department's most wanted list along with radiologists and pharmacists.

In NSW the State Government is concerned about the lack of qualified hairdressers.

It yesterday introduced a Bill to Parliament that would allow young people to train for a year through private training organisations to become qualified, if they did not want to undertake a four-year apprenticeship.

The executive director of the Professional Hairdressers Association Philip Teitzel said there had been a increase in demand for hairdressing services.

However, low wages had meant that hairdressers were hard to come by.

"In the past, the four-year apprenticeship and low wages has been restrictive for young people," he said.

"It's an occupation in which you also have to be quite physically fit and strong.

"So there is a big demand for professional hairdressers."

Mr Teitzel, however, was concerned that the proposed new regulations for the hairdressing industry would allow people as young as 14 years old to pay for a year's training and technically become eligible to start up their own salons at that age of 15 as qualified professionals.

The Department of Immigration's Migrational Occupation in Demand List lists the skills that will receive more favourable weighting in immigration applications.

"People seeking to migrate to Australia on the basis of their work skills will receive points of their nominated occupation," the department's website declares.

These points would be based on the Migrational Occupation in Demand List demand list that was current at the time of their application was assessed," the department added.

The Daily Telegraph

tiredwithtwins

good news for hairdressers then.
and why not?
we'd all look pretty untidy without hairdressers...


sue

owieb

I must admit I have never noticed a shortage of hairdressers in Perth. You can normally ring up one and get an appointment that day. And when you go in they're always really quiet. Or do I go to really cr*p hairdressers?

Maybe peoples hair grows faster in the sun so they need to have it cut more?

bondipom

Well I live in an area full of potential hair dressers. I just need to develop a lisp and a limp wrist.

Fabulous darling.

dotty

Thats a good point, salons here are like a dime a dozen, they sell for $15,000!! 8 hairdressing salons alone in Buderim which is basically a village!!!!!!!!!! Plaza, main (well in OZ shop terms) shopping centre has 6. Haircut, you just walk in theres so many of them, whats going on?

Perhaps we are going to get a new tax, get rid or your mullet or pay up:scared:

Ceri

look again - "is concerned about the lack of qualified hairdressers"

I think anyone can set themselves up as a hairdresser. They want the QUALIFIED ones now.
Explains all the mullets walking around.
There are plenty of hairdresses every place I have lived, but you try and find a decent one.

To be serious though, I do not understand why they say there is a lack of hairdressers here.. where??? They are a dime a dozen in all the places that I have lived.
Is this a ploy to get more people to emigrate here?

bondipom

Have you seen Amanda Vanstone's hair. She is in need of a qualified hairdresser. Maybe the Hair Salon industry body has made a donation to the liberal party!

janeyray

Went to get a price for a cut and blow dry the other day...

$60 to cut it!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT!!!

and $58 if I come with it wet!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe whenI was a kid but not now !!!????:scared:

add on about another $60 to add a bit of colour!!!!!

And I'am not talking about top salons like Tony and Guy, I'am talking about a small salon where I live. I went and got a few more prices but all very expensive.
Went home and got hubby to cut it with a pair of small garden shears we bought from Bunnings!

No really, a friend of a friend did it at her home and only charged $60. Still pricey for a mobile hairdresser I think?

Ceri

I always cut hubby's hair .. yikes:scared:
He will not go to a hairdresser, he went once and they made a complete mess of it. (PS I'm not a hairdresser) .
Mine ... I'm still trying to find a decent one.. I always end up looking like "chucky" but with long hair (from the horror film) everytime I go to the hairdressers.

I used to have a brill hairdresser in Singapore (bent as a butchers hook) .. but he was marvellous... I think I'll go kidnap him and bring him back to Aus.

I always think men make the better hairdressers.

dotty

Youve been here too long girl not to know the Aussie budget haircut trick!! Buy a set of clippers from Kmart about $19.99 plug in and shave the heads of the entire family with a number 4. They swear by it over here, whole familys beginning of term mums done the whole family herself:scared: It is a little scary to do it to your daughters, however think of the savings you can make

debsy

Phew! I'm lucky - my best mate who lives on the Gold Coast is a really good hairdresser so I wont have to search for one. She said that she is really busy all of the time now though.

Debs

yafm

When on holiday in Brisbane went to a local hairdresser and got an appointment - in about 3/4 hour - had an excellent haircut most impressed $17 (and no tip) asked if she could fit my husband in for a trim and she did Before he could object she also tidied up his very bushy eyebrows (to my delight) as part of the trim and he looked good.

Perhaps we were lucky but with prices like that it is worth rying all the local ones until you get what you want.

In UK a cut and blow dry costs me £20 in the local snips and I have very short hair

MrsDagboy

Holy jesus, $60 for a haircut!?!?!?!??!?! :scared:

I pay about $25 for mine with a shampoo, about $20 without, Dagboys is $15 & the little dagboys are $6 or $7 each. From memory I only paid about that much ($60) or not that much more for my wash/cut/streaks the last time I got them done.

Another black mark against Perth! LOL.

owieb

I pay about $60 for a haircut, but I do go to Toni & Guy so I'm probably paying over the odds for the name.

Not quite sure why it is so expensive. I thought maybe it was based on the amount of hair they have to cut, but it costs about $50 to have a bikini wax so that can't be the reason!

PeteY

Pah!! $60 !!

My wife goes to a "salon" and it costs her a good £50 every time. Waste of money in my opinion!!!

I seem to have already adopted haircuts aussie style (accoring to dotty) and have some £15 clippers that the wife runs over me head