Manicurists and Pedicurists
Manicurists and Pedicurists
Description
Clean and shape customers' fingernails and toenails. May polish or decorate nails.
Skills
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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Knowledge
- Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
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Tasks
- Assess the condition of clients' hands, remove dead skin, and massage hands.
- Apply undercoat and clear or colored polish onto nails with brush.
- Advise clients on nail care and use of products and colors.
- Clean and sanitize tools and work environment.
- Decorate clients' nails by piercing or attaching ornaments or designs.
- Extend nails using powder, solvent, and paper forms attached to tips of customers' fingers to support and shape artificial nails.
- Maintain supply inventories and records of client services.
- Polish nails, using powdered polish and buffer.
- Prepare customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks.
- Prepare nail cuticles with water and oil, using cuticle knives to push back cuticles and scissors or nippers to trim cuticles.
- Promote and sell nail care products.
- Remove previously applied nail polish, using liquid remover and swabs.
- Roughen surfaces of fingernails, using abrasive wheel.
- Schedule client appointments and accept payments.
- Shape and smooth ends of nails, using scissors, files, or emery boards.
- Treat nails to repair or improve strength and resilience by wrapping.
- Use rotary abrasive wheels to shape and smooth nails or artificial extensions.
- Whiten underside of nails with white paste or pencils.
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Work Activities
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public - Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others - Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
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Personality Traits
- Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Analytical Thinking: Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Independence: Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Innovation: Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Self Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Social Orientation: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
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