How Storytelling Can Elevate Your Professional Journey - Style Nine to Five

How Storytelling Can Elevate Your Professional Journey

In the fast-paced and competitive world of fashion, standing out in your career requires more than just a resume filled with impressive job titles and skills. To truly make an impact, whether you’re a designer, buyer, merchandiser, or public relations specialist, mastering the art of storytelling can be your secret weapon. As covered by Forbes, […]

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Top 5 Skills Employers Look for in Fashion Job Candidates - Style Nine to Five

The Top 5 Skills Employers Look for in Fashion Job Candidates in 2024

The fashion industry is constantly evolving, and so are the skills that employers prioritize when hiring. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to advance your career in fashion, understanding what employers are looking for can give you a competitive edge. In 2024, these are the top five skills that will help you stand out […]

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Transferable Skills to Take to the Fashion Industry - Style Nine to Five

4 Transferable Skills to Take to the Fashion Industry

So, you want to break into the fashion industry, but there’s one major obstacle in your way: you don’t have any fashion industry skills or experience. It may sound like a dead end, but you have plenty of other skills, don’t you? Namely, think about your transferable skills. Maybe you can’t sew and you don’t […]

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Top 6 Hiring Red Flags: What Causes Managers to Reject a Candidate - Style Nine to Five

Top 6 Hiring Red Flags: What Causes Managers to Reject a Candidate

When you’re dating or making new friends, you probably have a list of red flags in the back of your mind that’ll warn you to stay away. Have you ever considered that hiring managers may have one for job candidates, too? If you don’t want a hiring manager to write you off right away, avoid […]

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How to Transition From Retail to a Fashion Buying Career - Style Nine to Five

How to Transition From Retail to a Fashion Buying Career

If you have big dreams of working in the fashion industry, retail is one of the best places you can start. It gets you in on the ground floor, quite literally, of fashion. You will have the opportunity to make connections and learn so much about the industry while making money. Today we’re going to […]

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4 Steps to Find a Sustainable Fashion Job - Style Nine to Five

4 Steps to Find a Sustainable Fashion Job

If sustainability is important to you and you won’t settle for just any job in the fashion industry, here’s a quick guide on how to find the job you’re looking for. Plenty of sustainable fashion brands are out there and hiring, you just need to know where to look! 1. Career Pages of Sustainable Brands  […]

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How to Get Into Fashion Merchandising - Style Nine to Five

How to Get Into Fashion Merchandising

Fashion merchandising can be as much science as it is an art. As far as a creative field like fashion goes, merchandising is one of the more logical, researched-based roles. Fashion merchandising blends analytics, trend forecasting, marketing, and styling all in one, making it an exciting and dynamic career. Here are some of the skills […]

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4 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Find a Fashion Career - Style Nine to Five

4 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Find a Fashion Career

There’s no denying how much easier technology has made our lives – especially when it comes to finding a job. LinkedIn made it quick for recruiters to find you, Indeed gave you a place to dig through job postings, and now, ChatGPT is here to help you through the entire job-seeking process. For the uninformed, […]

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How to Become a Fashion Stylist - Style Nine to Five

How to Become a Fashion Stylist

Do you have an eye for fashion and a penchant for putting together OOTDs? A career as a stylist is a great fit for someone who loves playing in fashion closets, mixing and matching colours, textures and lines. If you have aspirations of becoming a stylist, here are some tips to get you started on […]

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How to Get Into the Fashion Industry Without Experience - Style Nine to Five

How to Get Into the Fashion Industry Without Experience

The Devil Wears Prada put it best, “A million girls would kill for that job.” The fashion industry is one of the most difficult industries to break into, because to paraphrase Meryl Streep’s character from the iconic fashion film, “Don’t be ridiculous, everybody wants to be us.” Fashion is glamorous, creative, exciting and seemingly everyone […]

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