Fashion Recruitment

We provide top-tier recruitment services for the fashion industry, delivering the best candidates to meet our clients' staffing needs.

What is the Fashion industry?

The fashion industry has a deep heritage in the UK, spanning from traditional up market brands to the relatively recent arrival of fast fashion. Both have their roots in the High Street whilst online shopping has largely been a progressive development from catalogue-based activity, where products where modelled and promoted individually. The industry covers everything from designers to stockists, brand marketing to influencers, who all make the industry the success it is today. Recently the focus for the industry has been sustainability with fast fashion being the victim of this growing force. In this constantly evolving and dynamic industry, employment of the best creative, experienced and commercial candidates deliver the success of many businesses in the sector.

How does the Fashion Industry work with recruitment agencies like ours?

There are many areas which recruitment agencies help the fashion industry including creative, design, production roles, brand and acquisition marketing, warehousing, retail environments and many in the corporate and administration areas. With the vast amounts of data collected from websites, data science and interpretation has become a large area of focus. Website development itself and user experience for B2C activity has increased demand for permanent and contracting developers. However activity can be seasonal, or campaign based, which means projects can be shorter periods of time. As with much of retail, fashion is susceptible to economic fluctuations and disposable income that significantly impacts demand.

Why does the Fashion industry work with The Candidate?

The Candidate has worked with many fashion brands since its launch in 2012 from well-known brands like boohoo to lesser-known start-ups that develop with our help into scale-ups. We can advise smaller businesses on team structure and how to prioritise hires from installing senior employees through to important team players. The Northwest, where we are headquartered, has a heritage of direct response fashion activity which has produced a large network of fashion experience. Many have a strong commercial understanding, but now marketing and technical skills are in high demand. We have supplied both permanent and contract staff whilst supplying the industry with Executive Search expertise to headhunt senior staff for openings within our clients’ businesses.

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Laura is a true professional. She strikes the perfect balance of supporting and challenging you at the same time. Having experienced Executive Search headhunters previously, what really makes Laura stand out is that she genuinely cares for her candidate, the role and the business she is working on behalf on. This seems like a simple point, but her authenticity and passion shines through at every step. I would wholeheartedly recommend Laura to anyone looking for or being approached by her for a new role.
Pete Metcalf CEO, Social Chain

I used The Candidate because I had struggled via other generalist recruiters. Elliot Jones at The Candidate was absolutely brilliant. This all ended with him finding me the perfect Senior Marketing Manager in the Manchester area.
Nicola Clark People Partner, Insomnia Cookies

Blake helped me secure an IT Account Manager role with an extremely quick turnaround. Very quick and efficient and couldn’t have asked for more.
Steven Forde IT Account Manager

Evie Barker contacted me with an amazing role and was fab throughout the whole process - great communication and answered all of my questions!
Jay Parker Influencer Manager, Social Chain

I recommend Laura to all of my clients that are seeking to make an executive appointment. Having worked together on a number of projects I am lucky enough to have seen first hand her passion for exceeding client expectations. Laura's commitment to understanding the brief at hand, combined with her pride in the job and desire to win, always results in happy clients; it is common for CEOs and CMOs to call and thank me for making the introduction. Always a pleasure to spend time with, professionally and socially. If you want to hire the right person for your business, make sure you speak to Laura.
Elliot Muscant Managing Partner, Open Partners

Recently had the pleasure working with Chris to secure me an SEO Associate Director role based in Manchester. Communication was really great and definitely recommend him. Thanks Chris!
Gemma Laverty SEO Account Director

Impeccable professionalism, her communication was always on point and the tips to cause an impression was of great value. I would like to thank her for the great service and will highly recommend the company.
Chris Machin CRM Executive, Betfred

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Automotive

Advertising Agency

Creative Agency

eCommerce

Fashion

Financial Services

FMCG

Health and Beauty

Manufacturing

Marketing Agency

Media Sales

Professional Services

Property

Travel

Utilities

Private Equity/Venture Capital

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