Hairdressing involves making people look and feel great through creative hair and beauty services. It requires skills like attention to detail, creativity, sociability, punctuality, and grooming. Training involves 3 years of on-job training and study or 2 years of full-time study, then 1 year working in a salon to build a clientele before exams. Qualifications include certificates in salon support, professional hairdressing, and hairdressing management. Jobs include styling, barbering, lecturing, sales, and session work in films, fashion, and on cruise ships. Hairdressers contribute to society by making people feel beautiful and giving them a way to express themselves.