5 Reasons Why You Need a Fashion Recruiter

The fashion industry is fast-paced, high-profile, and intensely competitive. How do you know you’re meeting your fashion staffing needs with the best and brightest talent? Read on for five reasons why working with a fashion recruiter like CM InStyle makes smart fashion sense.

1. Access

This business is all about who you know, and fashion recruiters make it their business to know everyone — from major players to up and comers. A fashion recruiter can help you identify your company’s next creative geniuses, business innovators and tech superstars. Whether you’re looking to make a full time hire or to expand your contingent workforce, these fashion staffing experts put their extensive knowledge and networking connections to work to help you meet your creative recruitment needs.

2. Resource Management

Are your creative efforts best spent sorting through throngs of candidates looking for fashion careers or making the decisions that will lead your company to success? Because a talent acquisition specialist is devoted to whittling down the glut of applications to the top tier of salespeople, designers, buyers, planners, merchandisers and more, your creative team is freed up to focus on what you do best.

3. Personalization

The best fashion staffing experts understand that true creative talent can’t always be qualified and quantified in a portfolio or resume. It’s their business to know your business, along with delving deeper to identity talent that’s a perfect match between their specialized offerings and your unique staffing needs and overall company culture.

4. Speed

Retail recruiters and contingent fashion recruiters are keenly aware that deadlines wait for no one. Have a last minute staffing need? These industry experts are positioned to help you meet your deadlines — both in terms of short-term and long-term staffing needs. They’re also willing to remain on the trail until they’ve found the perfect candidate.

5. A Labor of Love

Because fashion recruitment is a true labor of love, fashion recruiters are relentless about following trends, understanding the market, and doing their part to accelerate the fashion industry. Combining a creative approach with practical business savvy and fashion industry foundations, they offer a best-of-both-worlds solution for contemporary fashion businesses looking to gain the leading edge.

Lean Corporations: Simplify, Standardize, Automate

Lean Corporations: Simplify, Standardize, Automate 

The idea of “Lean Corporations” is far from being new. Every star-up, tech companies or industry giants know the value of a Lean training . It has been mostly referred to as the principles of effective manufacturing or automotive giant Toyota and throughout history, the teachings of this methodology enabled businesses to deliver cheaper products without compromising their quality.

Looking at existing examples, there have been quite a few companies that struggled to survive and managed to keep up with the rest not by laying off some of their staff but by improving efficiency. The Lean teachings were able to bring business closer to a more sustainable model that generates less and less waste and thus increases the profit margins. For many, investments made to train their staff pay off quickly. What seems as a great expense in the beginning actually brings more profits on a long term but not only the companies benefit from this scenario.

Looking at the issue from an employee’s perspective, obtaining a Lean certification that is paid by the organization is something that is worth mentioning on a C.V. In fact, many recruiting companies go an extra mile just to get their hands on a candidate that as such a certification. Obtaining it is a testimony itself that the individual was capable of implementing a project that reduced the costs in an organization. This is something that everyone is looking for and it can open the doors to better jobs and an ascending career.

In the end, the Lean system got the world to the point where it is today where abundance, affordability and high quality products dominate the markets. Not managing to comply to such demands from customers will lead to sale losses, liquidities frozen in assets and investments and even bankruptcy. It has come to a point in which Lean training is not optional, especially for the management teams.

Corporate Entertainment Company

Corporate Entertainment Company
by jwhittle

I know the weather might not look like much at the moment, but this summer is meant to be a warm one, making it a great time to think about holding an outdoor corporate event. Corporate entertainment really comes into its own when space no longer becomes a limitation. Whether you decide to get a musical act or something a bit more physical, it can really limit a performance to have to keep to a small stage, it can also reduce the amount of interaction your corporate act can have with their audience, your guests.

When given free range over a space, entertainers such as walkabout acts and flash mobs really come into their own. Your guests can become part of the act and the interaction that these kinds of groups depends on can be maximised. Some walkabout acts can involve quite large costumes, such as characters on stilts, so giving them there room means that they can interact with more people! Likewise, imagine the shock of your guests when seemingly the entire crowd starts singing or dancing in unison?!

Similarly, with an outside venue, the catering side of corporate entertainment can have a chance to really impress. There are many food and drink caters out there which incorporate some element of humour, dance or theme to make themselves stand out from the crowd. Many of these corporate entertainers are used to catering to large groups of people at events such as summer festivals and weddings. You can get both manned catering ‘vehicles’ or you can choose to have your sit-down meal delivered to your guests accompanied by a singing and dancing number.

Thinking of adding some music? Giving your act more room means that you can branch out a lot further to enter the realms of ‘interactive’ music. Modern music acts have added aspects such as water or paint to their instruments to create a different sound and to add theatre to their performance. These types of corporate entertainment really come into their own if your outdoor event goes on after dark, many of these interactive modern music acts incorporate LED lights into their performance, creating a lasting effect on your guests!

Likewise, there are entertainers who have constructed their entire act around making the most of a large open dark space such as the ‘Lightning’ Circus Act. Like their name may suggest this act uses 4 million volts of raw electricity, constructing them into a mystical flow of oscillating chaos! This show will quite literally raise the hairs off the necks of anyone who witnesses it, and is guaranteed to be the most talked about aspect of any production. I can honestly say that there is nothing else out there quite like it!

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