How to Impress a Fashion Recruiter Today
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Since the pandemic’s upending of employment trends, from mass redundancies and hiring freezes before a huge re-hiring movement and the so-called “Great Resignation”, the current job market has stayed “in constant flux,” according to Korn Ferry, one of the world’s largest hiring and recruiting firms. Indeed, with weak economies across Europe and beyond affecting businesses, and mass elections contributing to further market uncertainty, companies remain cautious in their hiring globally.
After all, it’s expensive to hire talent — benchmarking data in 2022 from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found the average cost per hire was nearly $4,700, although many employers estimate the total cost to hire a new employee can be three to four times the position’s salary. Consequently, many HR teams and hiring managers are reframing recruitment strategies to ensure they find the right talent from the offset.
For instance, there is an increasing emphasis on skills-based hiring, looking at what candidates know over past experiences and names on a CV. Recent LinkedIn data revealed recruiters on the platform search for candidates by their skills five times more often than by their degrees.
To discuss how recruiters and HR teams are approaching hiring in fashion today, BoF Careers sat down with JW Anderson’s HR director, Angela Okoro — who has previously worked at Versace, Bally and Ralph Lauren — at Graduate Fashion Week this June. Discover key insights from the interview on how to impress a fashion recruiter as emerging talent today, from demonstrating your eagerness to learn to showing an alignment with business needs.
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