Blog - Retail 

Photo by Max Ostrozhinskiy on Unsplash The biggest drawback to young people now is FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). This delusion around not having enough time is creating a generation that has a skewed sense of success and the realistic timelines it takes to achieve long term career goals.  One of the best ways to thwart FOMO is by taking the most significant tool you have, whic...

Photo by Graeme Worsfold on Unsplash   As we enter mid-January post holiday season, this is the time of the month most people actually start to think seriously about their careers and resolutions. Whereas the first couple of weeks are filled with enthusiasm mixed with recovering from the holiday hangover, midway through January is when reality kicks in.   Each year we are pr...

Photo: Scott Webb Photography   Ever wonder what it’s like for retail employees during the busiest shopping time of the year? While we plan outings and stealth trips away from our loved ones to purchase presents, retail employees are working full-time and sometimes overtime to meet customer demands and the increase in foot traffic.  Looking after the retail staff is one thin...

Image: Brooke Cagle via Unsplash   We’ve all heard friends and colleagues refer to fellow colleagues as their “work wife” or “work husband”. Beyond an endearing way of referring to your favorite person at work, studies show having deep and meaningful work friendships are an integral part of employee retention. Having a work spouse increases overall employee happiness and it ...

Photo by Loïc Fürhoff on Unsplash As we head into the second week of 2019 and juggling our post-holiday blues becomes easier, and the motivation of “New Year, New Me!” which was all over the internet last week already begins to wane, how are we to make positive changes that stick? Needless to say, we’ve all seen the countless articles and posts about why resolutions don’t wo...

Riverdale’s Serpents Image via: Zimbio Halloween has become big business for retailers in the UK. In 2017, UK sales from Halloween grew to £320 million. Up from 2016 figures of £310 million according to a study by Mintel. Forward-thinking retailers are capitalising on this money making festive day by embracing the “experiential retail” aspect of it. As more and more consumer...

Image Credit: @rawpixels The Directory team participates annually in a handful of career days which focus on giving opportunities to those starting out their career and bringing fresh talent to our talent pool. As the new academic year is in full swing - the team has been reaching out and building their community with a core group of schools. This is ideal for students who a...

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash As the job market, especially for new graduates, becomes a highly saturated and highly competitive landscape, it’s crucial for recruiters to look beyond what’s on paper. One of the advantages of working with a boutique recruitment agency like Directory is the application process goes beyond a CV to in-depth in-person interviews.  Agency founders...

As luxury brands release the ‘It’ bag and ‘It’ shoe each season, what is their internal ‘It’ must-have to win at the high stakes game to grab consumer dollars at check out? Not surprising at all, it’s not an ‘It’ anything but a ‘Who’. That who is the experienced, customer service-centric Mandarin-speaking sales associate.  A 2015 study conducted by Bain & Company reported Ch...

Photo Credit: Photo by Zhou Yu on Unsplash There’s no doubt about it, Fashion Marketing is one of the top career goals for every fashion graduate who comes into Directory. New graduates are eager to get their academic career behind them and start gaining some real-life experience. But with graduate level roles in fashion marketing being rare and hard to come by, what are the...