Fashion and Personal Care Consultants
Job description
These individuals advise clients who wish to improve their image or prepare a wedding. They are self-employed or work in:
- Beauty salons
- Fashion shops
- Modelling schools
- Image consulting companies
- Weight loss centres
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
Designers
- Advise people on their hair colour and style.
- Advise people on make-up.
- Help people choose clothes and accessories that match their appearance.
- Advise on posture, manners, and general presentation, as required.
- Give courses and workshops on behaviour in business and society.
Marriage Service Counsellors
- Help the bride-to-be choose her dress.
- Give advice on wedding preparations (floral arrangements, reception rooms, invitations, etc.).
Weight Loss Consultants
- Manage commercial weight loss programs.
- Advise clients on diet and exercise.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
450
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 53.6% Female
- 46.4% Male
Not available.
- 53.6% Female
- 46.4% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$65,500
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 44, 4511% of jobs
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NAICS 8111% of jobs
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NAICS 917% of jobs
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NAICS 5416, 54177% of jobs
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NAICS 311, 3127% of jobs
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Others57% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 44, 4511% of jobs
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NAICS 8111% of jobs
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NAICS 917% of jobs
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NAICS 5416, 54177% of jobs
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NAICS 311, 3127% of jobs
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Others57% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
No specific training
Sometimes required
- A secondary school diploma is usually required.
- A diploma of vocational studies (DVS) in sales and consulting is an asset.
- Expertise and experience in fashion, arts, modelling or a related field usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Critical thought
- Oral expression
- Human resource management
- Social perception
- Coordination
- Time management
- Information processing
- Reading comprehension
- Service oriented
- Persuasion
- Teaching
- Judgment and decision-making
- Solving complex problems
- Result evaluation
- Written expression
- Negotiation
- System analysis
- Active learning
- Systems evaluation
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Deductive reasoning
- Written expression
- Inductive reasoning
- Near vision
- Classification
- Information organization
- Idea generation
- Selective attention
- Originality
- Time sharing
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Sense of responsibility
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to work in a team
- Commitment
- Vitality
- Friendliness
- Enjoy challenges
- Impeccable appearance
Interests
- Work in sales or client service
- Work in the arts, culture, music, or leisure
- Create, design
- Assist and advise
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
Official name of the NOC 64201
Image, social and other personal consultants
Job titles
- Fashion consultant
- Weight loss adviser
- Social consultant
- Wedding services consultant
- Public image consultant - personal consultants
- Fashion colour analyst
- Image consultant
- Wardrobe consultant
- Fashion colour consultant
- Personal improvement consultant
- Public speaking consultant
- Make-up consultant
- Corporate image consultant
- Personal image consultant
- Professional image consultant
- Personal wardrobe consultant
- Wedding consultant
- Fashion and wardrobe consultant
- Etiquette consultant
Skill type
Sales and service
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