The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Careers Counsel rounds up the most useful and inspiring articles from around the web. To browse hundreds of jobs from leading brands, visit BoF Careers.
5 Tips to Find and Land a New Job in 2021 (Forbes)
Focus on your core skill set when making a career pivot. This means reflecting on what your gifts are, and how they translate from the career you chose in your past to the career you’re selecting for your future.
What Role Do Employers Play in Global Covid-19 Vaccination Programmes? (Harvard Business Review)
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Spend time to understand the cultural beliefs that may dissuade employees from getting vaccinated. Engage your diversity, equity, and inclusion professionals to connect with all demographics in your employee base, and conduct surveys now to understand employees’ attitudes toward and beliefs about vaccination.
Six Tips for Getting Virtual Work Experience (BBC)
Virtual work experience is new for a lot of companies, so they [will] appreciate you going the extra mile to show in your application that you have relevant skills for working remotely. [...] You could do this by including a short paragraph which gives specific examples of how you worked remotely last academic year.
BoF Careers provides essential sector insights for fashion designers this month, to help you decode fashion’s creative and commercial landscape.
This week, talent expert Suki Sandhu OBE and advisor and executive search consultant Karen Harvey shared insights on the core skill sets expected of leaders and managers in the fashion industry today. BoF Careers shares key learnings from the event.
Discover the most exciting career opportunities now available on BoF Careers — including jobs from Ermenegildo Zegna Group, JW Anderson and A-Cold-Wall.
BoF spoke to HR executives and talent experts at Alexander McQueen, On and Deckers Brands — global employers currently recruiting on BoF Careers — to understand what skills are most relevant to the fashion industry and how to upskill in them in the workplace.