Employer Success Stories

“I have worked with Liz Dean at Fashion & Retail Personnel for various positions within our Buying and Merchandising teams and have always found that she responds quickly and more importantly, sends candidates with the correct experience. Based on my personal experience I would recommend the services of Fashion Personnel.”

“I have no hesitation in recommending Fashion & Retail Personnel. Our Account Manager in the Midlands, Gemma Shaw is always extremely professional and her understanding of the retail industry allows her to provide us with a high calibre of candidates.’’

“I have had an excellent long standing relationship with Fashion & Retail Personnel, for over 10 years. During this time the turnover of their Consultants has been almost non existent making the whole process of them knowing our business much easier. Their no fuss attitude takes the stress out of recruitment."

“Getting the precise skill set, expertise, mindset as well as company culture fit factor when recruiting personnel is challenging but key to our company organisation, success and continued growth in the tough fashion sector. We have consistently used Fashion & Retail Personnel over the last three years as one of our main recruitment consultants and have been very happy with the partnership. They have not only matched the requirement to the brief within sometimes short deadlines but have also understood the personality fit to the existing team and the role. We pride ourselves in having an amazing team that loves the company and their job and I have no hesitation in saying that most of them were successfully recruited through Fashion & Retail Personnel.”

“I find working with Fashion & Retail Personnel very easy, the staff are always professional, helpful and informed. Candidate reports are laid out in a user friendly format and the prospective candidates that they put forward are relevant to the job spec. They are always my first call.”

“I have never been a fan of recruitment agencies but Fashion & Retail Personnel works differently to other agencies and provides a service that meets my needs in a way that I never thought was possible.”

“Fashion & Retail Personnel offer a reliable, professional and friendly service. We are impressed by the quality of the candidates provided and would have no hesitation in recommending them.”

“Fashion & Retail Personnel provide us with an excellent and focused service for both permanent and temporary staff. The consultants are professional, thorough and really understand the business we operate in. They are always careful to assess and understand our vacancy requirements, enabling then to send across a good selection of strong candidates.”

“Jennifer Green, in her many years of dealing with us has constantly gone above and beyond in order to recruit the perfect candidates and makes dealing with an agency effortless due to her unique understanding of our company and the market place which we are situated.

She ensures that all candidates are pre selected and therefore we only see the ones which meet our exacting criteria and all from blue chip backgrounds resulting in no wasted time out of our schedules.

Her knowledge of design is second to none and can asses the commerciality of portfolios unlike our experiences with our agencies thus resulting in an excellent hit rate.”

“Helen & Claire at Fashion & Retail Personnel are always very approachable and willing to help. They always contact me for updates and get back to me promptly. They work hard to provide strong candidates that are briefed about Swarovski and the job position.”

“Finding the right people to fill positions is an ongoing challenge for HR. Working with an agency who understands the business and its culture is important. Fashion and Retail Personnel have a consultative approach; they visit us regularly and take time to find out about us and our requirements. Working together we have successfully found the best candidates who have gone on to have promising careers with WDT.”

“Yesim Tekstil is becoming a more global company. We are getting full support from Fashion & Retail Personnel International Division in finding good candidates to continue our expansion.”

“I am the Commercial Manager at Lloyd Shoe Company and earlier this year we were in the process of expanding our buying and merchandising teams. As a Concession retailer finding the correct staff is essential as the role we play is technically that of a ‘trading’ supplier. We are based outside the centre of London and are a relatively compact operation at head office.

Fashion & Retail Personnel were faced with the challenge of finding candidates who could integrate into a small team yet understand and communicate with traditional merchandising and buying structures for large clients. We were looking for people who could apply the processes normally used in large retailers yet make them relevant to our business. Charlie Gerver made the initial contact and ensured through a friendly consultative approach she understood our business, our structure and of course the nature of the roles we were hoping to fill.

A comprehensive job description was produced as was a summary of our business and a brief Company History in order for Charlie to advise candidates where we had come from. Charlie ensured she was able to pick suitable candidates – there is nothing worse than being sent every merchandiser on the database we were only sent those who fitted the bill on both skill set and personality – Charlie appreciated in smaller operations personality is nearly as important as having the required practical experience.

In 5 months we filled 4 roles at varied levels- a merchandiser, assistant merchandiser, assistant buyer and a buyers admin. The process from selection of viable candidates to recruitment was made easier due to regular meaningful communication from Charlie and by being honest with feedback on both sides.

All 4 employees have successfully integrated into Lloyd Shoe Company, they have been able to adjust to our processes and culture and similarly have brought their own experience to the roles, they’ve certainly enhanced aspects of the operation with changes they have implemented and I’m sure they will continue to do so.’’

Lloyd Shoe Company