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Rachel Smart is the founder of Frame Retail, a specialist fashion recruitment agency that’s celebrating five years in business this month. Frame has grown rapidly from a one woman operation to a team of ten with offices in Auckland, Christchurch, and Wanaka. Rachel and her team have extensive knowledge of the fashion industry and have grown a loyal base of clients and candidates from around the country. Part of what makes Frame so successful is their dedication to getting to know each client’s business and culture in detail so they can find the right person for the job who will thrive in the role.

We caught up with Rachel to find out more about how Frame has evolved, how she manages her business and what her top tips are for landing a fashion job.

Founder & CEO of Frame - Rachel Smart, chats with Remix magazine on how Frame works, the local fashion industry, and juggling business with a newborn. We are so excited to see this article go to print later this month for the NZFW issue.

Today on the blog, we catch up with our incredible Frame account manger Shar Hilton, based in our Christchurch office.

Shar has been a pivotal part of the Frame team for nearly 2 years now! supporting candidates to find their dream roles, and sourcing talented individuals for our clients.

Today on the blog, we share an insightful blogpost, sourced from The Twenties Club on handling rejection.

Here at Frame we acknowledge that rejection is tough! Yet, something that we all experience at some point, especially along our career pathways.

Based in our Christchurch office, Inge is a talented Apparel Designer by trade. She has hit the ground running into recruitment alongside her design role. Inge has been successfully supporting Frame Clients and Candidates for 4 months now, time is totally flying by!

Fast fashion has revolutionized how consumers perceive fashion and normalized a culture of mass consumption and production within society. A culture which poses grave threat to the wellbeing of our planet.

Having an interview via video has become increasingly common in today’s world and we have the top tips to conduct a successful video interview!

The founder of An Organised Life, Beck Wadworth, shares her secrets on setting goals for a new year ahead.

Our Frame Mum’s Rach and Ruth chat about their motherhood journeys and how they juggle the work / Mum life balance.

There will be plenty of retail jobs out there this year, they just might not look like people expect them to, experts say.

Have you got your end of year performance review coming up? Here are our top 5 tips to help you nail yours.

If we all do our bit, collectively we can start to make a difference. We’ve put together a few ideas on how you can get started on your plastic-free and sustainable journey

We spent 5 minutes catching up with the gal who inspired us to ‘feel fab on Friday’ during the lockdown, style guru Mary Outram. Her accomplishes include having her own online store, heading up Designer Wardrobe for Christchurch and collaborating with International brands on social media.

Here’s what Mary had to tell us;

As we approach 3 weeks in lockdown, we’ve finished all the Netflix and Lightbox series, reorganised our wardrobes, deep cleaned the house, tidied the garden and baked every recipe in the cookbook. So, what next?!

Now is the perfect time to up-skill in your career and keep your professional knowledge up to date.

Things have changed dramatically in just a number of weeks. It’s safe to say that the entire country are still in shock as to how quickly Covid-19 has shaken up our daily way of life, and our businesses. Staff all around NZ are feeling a mixture of emotions, including anxiety and stress. As employers, it’s important that we focus on keeping morale high and our teams motivated, thinking ahead to beyond this crisis.

LinkedIn is one of the first places potential employers go to scope you out. Your Linkedin page should be an extension of your CV, so it’s important to spend some time updating your CV and ensuring your LinkedIn profile is up to date and accurate. You never know when your dream job is just around the corner!

Frame would like to acknowledge all of our wonderful clients and candidates during this uncertain and difficult time. Covid-19 has shaken up our industry and times have never been harder to navigate for both businesses and individuals alike. We want you to know that we care about you- and that we are here to help! Whether you are a business needing some advice or a candidate who is seeking employment, please feel free to contact us anytime and we will be here for you.

For the past 4 years, I have been balancing working from home and a co-working office space. It took a while to get the hang of being based at home, so I thought I would share my top tips and tricks with you all.

Anine Bing launched her eponymous brand in 2012 out of a garage in Los Angeles with her husband, on a mission to create pieces that represented her unique style. Today, the brand is a global powerhouse that fuses a European aesthetic with vintage Americana and boasts an engaged social media following of women who are inspired by Bing’s aspirational yet accessible allure and entrepreneurial instincts.

Article sourced by: Forbes