6 Barbering Preparatory Programs in Oceania

In this qualification, you will gain the skills and knowledge to be employed as a creative barber, working as part of a team in a Barbering and Hair Salon environment.

Start from scratch or build on your current hairdressing skills with the Certificate III in Barbering SHB30516.

This qualification reflects the role of barbers who use a range of well-developed sales, consultation and technical skills and knowledge to provide a broad range of barbering services to clients. They use discretion and judgement to provide client services and take responsibility for the outcomes of their own work.

In this course, you will have the opportunity to develop your sales and consultation skills, as well as specialist technical barbering skills including cutting hair using freehand clipper techniques, designing and maintaining beards and mustaches, and shaving heads and faces. You’ll also learn how to provide men’s general grooming services, identify and treat hair and scalp conditions, as well as how to create graduated and layered haircut structures, and how cut hair using over-comb techniques.

This course will provide you the skills and knowledge to perform as a leading barber in this fast growing industry. Learn cutting edge skills from an award winning barber or have your existing skills recognised.Alternatively, you may use the Skills Recognition Pathway: Skills Recognition is an acknowledgement of the skills you have learned from your work, from life experience, or from any previous training. 

The skills you learn within this qualification will put you closer to studying a business, management or marketing degree.