Lately, hiring in fashion has become harder for many brands. They are dealing with higher staff turnover, longer vacancies and teams carrying extra responsibility while key roles sit empty.

The answer isn’t to hire faster. This article looks at how fashion brands can recruit for retention by improving workforce planning, attraction, on-boarding, development and the employee experience.

What happens in the first 90 days often decides whether a new recruit settles, performs and stays, or starts questioning the move before anyone has noticed.

This free onboarding report looks at why the early weeks matter so much, where fashion brands often lose momentum with new hires, and how managers can create the clarity, support and feedback people need to succeed.

It's entirely logical to build a brief around technical competency. The trouble is that skills have a shorter shelf life than they used to.
Research consistently identifies seven observable signals of high potential. Here we list them and show how to interview for them.