Work as a hair stylist in Melbourne.
This is the careers page for Assort Melbourne, our hair salon in Melbourne, Australia. Whether you are coming on a working holiday or continuing your career in Melbourne, we would love to hear from you.
ASSORT MELBOURNE
About the salon
Assort Melbourne is a Japanese hair salon on Wellington Street in Collingwood, Melbourne — a creative neighbourhood of cafes and galleries, with a loyal local clientele.
- Address
- 73/77 Wellington St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia — Open in Google Maps
OUR STRENGTHS
Our strengths
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Over 1.4 million followers
Assort's TikTok, Instagram and YouTube accounts have over 1.4 million followers in total (November 2026). When a salon post features your work, you are invited as a collaborator, so it can appear on your own Instagram too. For freelancers, that means being seen by many people; for employees, it means working at a salon many people already know.
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Many new guests every month
Assort Melbourne welcomes about 160 new guests a month on average, and the average spend per visit is about A$180 before GST (May–October 2026, from our own sales records). A good place to build your own clientele.
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Japanese techniques, and every service
We do it all: cuts, colour, highlights and balayage, perms, digital perms, Japanese straightening and treatments. Digital perms and Japanese straightening are rare in Western salons; here they are part of everyday work.
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Training that keeps you growing
Stylists take on monthly cut and colour tasks in our training app, and our educators score each one within 14 days.
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IT and AI: a new kind of salon
Shifts, leave, guest records, training tasks and more run in apps we built ourselves, on your phone. Any question, any time: ask Moné, our AI assistant.
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Shifts about two months ahead
Your shifts are published about two months ahead, so you can plan your life.
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No age limit: we value experience
We set no age limit, and we see your years in the trade as experience. Only the working holiday visa itself has age limits, set by each government.
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One group, 7 countries
Salons in Tokyo, Osaka, New York, London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Melbourne, with Vancouver opening next. If you move to one of our salons in another country, the company books your one-way flight, as a loan that melts away while you keep working with us.
Benefits for employees
- Superannuation, paid annual leave and personal leave, as Australian law sets out
- Parental leave, as Australian law sets out
- Staff discount: 20% off our salon's retail products
- One practice wig a month, paid by the company (employees)
ROLES & VISA
Roles, visas and conditions (Australia)
🇦🇺 Australia
- Open Roles
- Stylist（Full-time Employee）・Receptionist（Full-time Employee・Part-time employee）・English Teacher（Contractor (Freelance)）
- Employment Types
- Full-time Employee・Part-time employee・Contractor (Freelance)
- Supported Visas
- Australian citizen・Permanent resident (Australia)・Working Holiday Visa・482 Visa (Skilled Employment)
- Working Holiday
- Yes
- Hairdressing Licence
- Not required (a Japanese hairdressing licence is welcome)
- Salary
- Details provided at interview
About the working holiday and the 482 visa
Australia allows work on a working holiday visa. The usual path is to start on a working holiday and, after roughly two years, discuss 482 (employer-sponsored) visa sponsorship — not a guarantee. For whether you qualify, just ask in the chat on this page.
OPEN ROLES
Open roles
Hair Stylist
For experienced stylists. Bring your refined Japanese technique to the stage in 8 cities worldwide.
- Employment Types
- Full-time Employee
- Supported Visas
- Australian citizen・Permanent resident (Australia)・Working Holiday Visa・482 Visa (Skilled Employment)
- Working Holiday
- Yes
- Hairdressing Licence
- Not required (a Japanese hairdressing licence is welcome)
- Salary
- Details provided at interview
Salon Receptionist
The face of the salon — the role that welcomes our clients. Our receptionists are also the salon's content creators: they make the salon's Instagram posts, reels and stories, and write articles for the salon's website journal. No hairdressing licence required. Your photo is shown on the salon's website: this is part of the job.
- Employment Types
- Full-time Employee・Part-time employee
- Supported Visas
- Australian citizen・Permanent resident (Australia)・Working Holiday Visa・482 Visa (Skilled Employment)
- Working Holiday
- Yes
- Salary
- Details provided at interview
English Teacher
A freelance position teaching English conversation to salon staff. No hairdressing licence required. Help the team grow into stylists who can work confidently anywhere in the world.
- Employment Types
- Contractor (Freelance)
- Supported Visas
- Australian citizen・Permanent resident (Australia)・Working Holiday Visa・482 Visa (Skilled Employment)
- Working Holiday
- Yes
- Salary
- Details provided at interview
APPLY
How to apply
Applying takes a few minutes on the application form. Interviews are held online, so you can apply from anywhere.
OTHER CITIES
Looking at other cities too?
Assort hires hair stylists across 7 countries, 8 cities and 9 salons (Vancouver opens in January 2027) — Tokyo, Osaka, New York, London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Vancouver. Every city is on our main careers page, and the chat on this page can answer questions about any of them.