CUTTING EDGE CARRER for New Salon Manager at Q HAIR AND BEAUTY
CUTTING EDGE CAREER
When Amy Burgess joined the Tiger Club training scheme at Q Hair and Beauty in Chichester in her early teens, little did she imagine this would lead to her managing one of the multi award-winning salon's branches.
She is now managing a team at the Q salon in Midhurst and is thrilled that she decided as a youngster that hairdressing was the career for her. Amy was just 14 when she became a Tiger, a member of Q's pioneering after-school club designed to give budding hairdressers a sound grounding in the basics and help them decide if working in the hairdressing industry was what they really wanted to do.
Amy's talents and commitment were recognised from the start with her openness to education and learning. In addition to attending the weekly club sessions she also worked at the salon on Saturdays and some of the school holidays.
She started her apprenticeship at Q when she was 16 and during her Level 2, which she completed at the age of 17, she won a national Apprentice of the Year award.
“When I started my Level 3, I applied and was successful in getting onto the Hairdressing Fellowship artistic team 2017 which was a year's worth of amazing education where I was able to network and enjoyed opportunities like working backstage at the London Fashion Week. One of my highlights was presenting on Salon International with full professional set up” Amy says. “I was also part of a shoot with our team for Rolex, creating classic, elegant updos, for a local publication.”
After qualifying in her Level 2, Amy became a graduate stylist at Q then moved up to stylist, designer, senior designer and now director.
“I have also been a part of training the next generation of hairdressers with the Tiger Club, which I loved doing.
“I took a sabbatical in 2019 for eight months to travel around Asia, an incredible experience, and since returning in October 2020 I have been full-time at the Q Midhurst salon, growing my column and skills.
We went through lockdowns and during that time I created a few ‘how to' videos while we navigated that period.” In August 2021 Amy became acting manager at Midhurst and in June this year she was appointed manager. “I am so looking forward in time to continuing to build our team at Midhurst and building on my craft,” she says.
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