Working in design is a creative yet competitive industry within the UK fashion market and design jobs are at the best of times hard to secure if you have no formal training or experience or work to show case. The UK market has many designer job seekers or people with designer skill sets, be they graphic designers, clothing designers or general textile designers space planners, interior designers and industrial designers. Design jobs can be found like most other jobs within fashion, using the web which entails fashion/ designer orientated job sites like Retailchoice for example. Alternatively, registering with recruitment agencies like Fashion & Retail Personnel provide a numerous inroads into both the design employment market as well as the retail market.
Working in Retail and getting retail jobs is pretty much the same insofar as getting design jobs. Jobs in retail, tend to be quite prestige orientated especially if you are looking to work at the top end o the UK retail fashion industry. Typical high-end labels expect employees to be attractive, charming, refined and very well presented. Non-fashion retailers don’t have the same expectations on their retail workers, with knowledge and skills in the industry they are working is an obvious requirement. Retail jobs are wide ranging insofar as people looking to work n retail can get jobs as merchandiser’s, buyers, sales, account management. Retail jobs are wide-ranging good fun for people who are creative, commercially driven and enjoy a challenge.