Description
Clean and shape customers' fingernails and toenails. May polish or decorate nails.
Interests
- Realistic
- Conventional
Work Values
- Relationships
- Support
- Independence
Work Styles
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Attention to Detail
- Self-Control
- Stress Tolerance
- Concern for Others
Tasks
- Clean and sanitize tools and work environment.
- Apply undercoat and clear or colored polish onto nails with brush.
- Maintain supply inventories and records of client services.
- Shape and smooth ends of nails, using scissors, files, or emery boards.
- Prepare nail cuticles with water and oil, using cuticle knives to push back cuticles and scissors or nippers to trim cuticles.
Work Activities
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
- Assisting and Caring for Others
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
Detailed Work Activities
- Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Technology Skills
- Spreadsheet software
- Calendar and scheduling software
- Data base user interface and query software
- Customer relationship management CRM software
- Office suite software
Abilities
- Near Vision
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Finger Dexterity
- Manual Dexterity
- Oral Expression
Skills
- Active Listening
- Service Orientation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Speaking
Knowledge
- Customer and Personal Service
Most Common Education Level
The “Most Common Education Level” refers to the level of education held by the majority of workers in a given occupation. For example, if the highest percentage of workers in a role have an Associate’s Degree, that suggests this is the typical educational requirement. Knowing this helps you plan how many years of education you may need to pursue that career.
Certificates
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Income Percentile
The income percentiles show how earnings are distributed within a profession. The 10th percentile means that 10% of workers earned less than that amount. The median (50th percentile) indicates that half of workers earned more, and half earned less. The 90th percentile reflects what the top 10% of earners in the field make.
| Income Percentile | Annual Income |
|---|---|
| Low (10%) | $37,182 |
| Median (50%) | $45,252 |
| High (90%) | $60,935 |
Income by Experience
This table shows how income typically grows with experience—from entry level (0–2 years), to mid-level (3–5 years), to senior level (6–8 years), to expert level (8+ years).
| Experience | Income |
|---|---|
Entry Level  | $44,388 |
| Mid Level | $46,155 |
| Senior Level | N/A |
| Expert Level | N/A |
Employability
There are currently 212,700 jobs in this career path. Over the next 10 years, that number is expected to increase to 237,800 positions, reflecting a projected growth of 12%.
The Projected Job Growth figure refers to the expected increase or decrease in employment within a specific career field over a certain period of time.
Projected Job Growth of 12%
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