Working in fashion: all the useful tips and the most coveted jobs

Working in fashion is many young creatives’ dream. How to get a job in fashion? How to start a career in your dream world?The first step to fulfill your dream to work in fashion is definitely to enroll in a school or academy that will provide the appropriate know-how and skills, theoretically, and often also practically through internships and extracurricular activities that will help establish a solid foundation in view of a career in fashion, including the opportunity to launch one’s own brand. The visiting card for any creative – and for anyone looking for a job – is one’s résumé, or CV.A CV is fundamental when looking for any kind of job in fashion and must be prepared carefully and thoroughly. How to create the perfect résumé? What are a successful résumé’s essential items and in what order should they be listed? How to highlight our background and our dreams for the future? How to highlight our extracurricular activities? And then: how to send out a résumé, and how should a creative looking for a job in fashion integrate one’s résumé  with a portfolio and possible cover letter?We addressed all these themes in a special webinar dedicated to the perfect CV for fashion, featuring Lory Yedid, Partner of Value Search.A Fashion Portfolio is crucial for any creative looking for a job in fashion. Alongside one’s resumé, the portfolio tells who the designer is,  and who they want to become. Specifically, the fashion portfolio will include the best works created when studying or working for brands or on special projects. Creating a successful and accurate Fashion Portfolio, explaining thoroughly the designer’s creative world, is the best way to find a job in fashion and gain visibility with head hunters and fashion houses’ HR depertments.  How to create the perfect fashion portfolio and make it the key to access the job market? How to use it properly to gain the attention of head hunters or brands’ HR selectors?Valentina Maggi, Global Director of the Design Practice at Floriane de Saint Pierre & Associés, explained us how to create the perfect fashion portfolio in this webinar: here the videoHow to win a job interview and start working in fashion? How to play up one’s background and previous work experience, and how to convey at best one’s top qualities to turn a job interview into the first step in fashion, getting the much coveted job you have been dreaming of?We asked the headhunters of Between…

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Source: vogue.it